TIDMNHY 
 
 
 
   Norsk Hydro employees have purchased shares under a general arrangement 
offered to employees employed by Norsk Hydro in Norway each year. 
 
 
 
   All employees employed by Norsk Hydro in Norway have been offered to 
purchase shares valued at NOK 25,000 or NOK 12,500 with a 50 percent 
discount. 88 percent of the employees entitled to the offer have 
subscribed, and have each been allocated 536 or 268 shares at NOK 23.35 
per share. The total number of shares allocated and transferred on May 
4, 2015 is 1,694,564. 
 
 
 
   Norsk Hydro ASA holds 27,410,584 own shares after this transaction and 
the number of outstanding shares are 2,041,587,692. 
 
 
 
   With reference to the stock exchange announcement as of April 1, 2015, 
the following primary insiders have under the above mentioned scheme 
each purchased 536 shares: 
 
 
 
   - President and CEO Svein Richard Brandtzæg, new holding is 
181,055. 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President and CFO Eivind Kallevik, new holding is 
29,636 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President Arvid Moss, new holding is 126,304 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President Hilde Merete Aasheim, new holding is 59,903 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President Anne-Lene Midseim, new holding is 3,939 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President Inger Sethov, new holding is 3,663 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President Hanne Simensen, new holding is 2,764 
 
 
 
   - Executive Vice President Kjetil Ebbesberg, new holding is 25,784 
 
 
 
   - Employee representative to the Board of Directors Billy Fredagsvik, 
new holding is 3,698 
 
 
 
   - Employee representative to the Board of Directors Ove Ellefsen, new 
holding is 8,083 
 
 
 
   - Employee representative to the Board of Directors Sten Roar Martinsen, 
new holding is 4,754 
 
 
 
   - Company Secretary Ingeborg Margrethe Liahjell, new holding is 4,750 
 
 
 
   Investor contact 
 
   Contact Pål Kildemo 
 
   Cellular +47 97096711 
 
   E-mail Pål.Kildemo@hydro.com 
 
 
 
   Press contact 
 
   Contact Halvor Molland 
 
   Cellular +47 92979797 
 
   E-mail Halvor.Molland@hydro.com 
 
 
 
   Certain statements included within this announcement contain 
forward-looking information, including, without limitation, those 
relating to (a) forecasts, projections and estimates, (b) statements of 
management's plans, objectives and strategies for Hydro, such as planned 
expansions, investments or other projects, (c) targeted production 
volumes and costs, capacities or rates, start up costs, cost reductions 
and profit objectives, (d) various expectations about future 
developments in Hydro's markets, particularly prices, supply and demand 
and competition, (e) results of operations, (f) margins, (g) growth 
rates, (h) risk management, as well as (i) statements preceded by 
"expected", "scheduled", "targeted", "planned", "proposed", "intended" 
or similar statements. 
 
 
 
   Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such 
forward-looking statements are reasonable, these forward-looking 
statements are based on a number of assumptions and forecasts that, by 
their nature, involve risk and uncertainty. Various factors could cause 
our actual results to differ materially from those projected in a 
forward-looking statement or affect the extent to which a particular 
projection is realized. Factors that could cause these differences 
include, but are not limited to: our continued ability to reposition and 
restructure our upstream and downstream aluminium business; changes in 
availability and cost of energy and raw materials; global supply and 
demand for aluminium and aluminium products; world economic growth, 
including rates of inflation and industrial production; changes in the 
relative value of currencies and the value of commodity contracts; 
trends in Hydro's key markets and competition; and legislative, 
regulatory and political factors. 
 
 
 
   No assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to have been 
correct. Hydro disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward 
looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future 
events or otherwise. 
 
 
 
   This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to 
section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. 
 
   This announcement is distributed by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions on 
behalf of NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions clients. 
 
   The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely 
responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information 
contained therein. 
 
   Source: Norsk Hydro via Globenewswire 
 
   HUG#1918193 
 
 
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