STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The board of directors has, in accordance with an authorization from the annual shareholders meeting held on April 27, 2006, adopted a global stock option program for employees within the Biotage group (STO:BIOTA) - Biotage AB Global Share Option Plan 2006. The board of directors has further, in accordance with an authorization from the above mentioned shareholders meeting, resolved to allot 597,500 employee stock options under the option program, of which members of the group management receive a maximum of 30,000 stock options each, members of the senior management receive a maximum of 10,000 stock options each, members of junior management and other key employees receive a maximum of 5,000 stock options each and other employees receive a maximum of 3,000 stock options each. The CEO and President of the company has been allotted 55,000 stock options.
