Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Ahold has received a request from Aegon Custody B.V., holder of 100,802,061 Ahold cumulative preferred financing shares with par value of €169,286,256 and voting rights of 1.53%, to convert its cumulative preferred financing shares into common shares.
In accordance with the applicable conversion terms, the number of 100,802,061 cumulative preferred financing shares will be converted into 22,419,051 common shares.
The conversion will take place on January 2, 2007.
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