THIN: PARC, a Xerox Company, increases its shareholding in Thinfilm


PARC, a Xerox company, is increasing its shareholding in Thin Film Electronics ASA ("Thinfilm" or "the Company").

PARC will receive 1,100,843 new shares equal to NOK 6,140,500 through a private placement. The subscription price of NOK 5.578 per Thinfilm share equals the average closing share price for the last ten trading days up to and including 17 December 2013.

The Thinfilm Board of Directors has in place an authorization from the general meeting dated 8 May 2013 to issue shares in a number maximized to 10% of the registered number of shares in the Company at the date of the authorization. The share issue to PARC is well within this 10% authorization.

Following the above-mentioned transaction, the Company's share capital will be NOK 51,878,839.32 divided into 471,625,812 ordinary shares each having a par value of NOK 0.11.

Following the private placement PARC owns 4.0 million shares in Thinfilm.

20 December 2013
Thin Film Electronics ASA

ABOUT THIN FILM ELECTRONICS ASA
Thin Film Electronics ASA (Ticker: THIN.OL) is a leader in the development of Printed Electronics. The first to commercialize printed rewritable memory, Thinfilm is creating printed system products that will include memory, sensing, display and wireless communication-at a cost-per-functionality unmatched by any other electronic technology.  Thinfilm's roadmap of system products integrates technology from a strong and growing ecosystem of partners to enable the Internet of Things by bringing intelligence to disposable goods. Company headquarters are in Oslo, Norway, with product development in Linköping, Sweden, sales offices in San Francisco, USA, and Tokyo, Japan, and manufacturing in Pyongtaek, South Korea.

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For more information, please contact:

Thin Film Electronics ASA
John Afzelius-Jenevall
CFO
+47 95 87 96 80
jaj@thinfilm.no
http://www.thinfilm.no

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.