...price of up to 2,000 crowns per share, the company said on Wednesday.
A Zentiva investor relations officer said the authorisation was a renewal of a similar one last year and was meant to purchase shares for the firm's option programme. She said Zentiva held 126,000 of its own shares at present.
Zentiva was up 1.33 percent at 1,445 crowns on the Prague Stock Exchange by 1348 GMT.