On their first day of trading on Friday MaltaPost shares were active with almost 500,000 shares exchanging hands in over 130 deals.

The transactions took the opening price from euro0.50 to 0.65 to then settle and close at 0.62c per share.

The policy adopted by the Government when allocating shares at the Initial Public Offering stage ensured that all those subscribing to the offer were allotted a minimum of 2000 shares thus bringing the 3000 new shareholders to the company.