On November 9, 2009, Sonova announced that it is terminating the share buy-back program for up to 10% of its share capital which started on September 20, 2007 with immediate effect.

A total of 2,113,500 registered shares with a nominal value of CHF 0.05 have been repurchased at an average price paid per share of CHF 94.98, corresponding to 3.15% of share capital when the buy-back program was launched. The value of the shares repurchased was CHF 200.7 million. The repurchase was carried out via a second trading line on the SIX Swiss Exchange AG set up especially for the share buy-back. All shares bought back have been cancelled.