Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares • Jan 2, 2018

Repurchase of treasury shares

Referring to article 207 of the Royal Decree of 30 January 2001 in execution of the Companies Code (art. 620 § 1) as amended by Royal Decree of 26 April 2009, the Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV communicates that it has purchased a total of 48.300 treasury shares in the period from 25 December 2017 until 29 December 2017 at the regulated market Euronext Brussels, at an MTF or outside of an organised trading facility in accordance with applicable regulations.

The Board of Directors of Colruyt Group has performed this purchase of treasury shares under the share buyback programme announced on 27 September 2017 for a maximum amount of EUR 350 million. The programme started on 2 October 2017 and has an expected term of 2 years. Purchases will be made in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations and under the authorisation granted by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of 14 October 2014.

Under this ongoing share buyback programme, Colruyt Group has purchased a total of 3.340.506 treasury shares to date, for a total amount of EUR 147.516.873,55.

As at 29 December 2017 the company holds a total of 8.432.071 treasury shares or 5,61% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 150.196.352).

An overview of the repurchases of treasury shares since 1 July 2009, will be available on our website www.colruytgroup.com under:

Investors/Shareholders' information/Overview of capital and shares/Repurchase of shares.

Overview of repurchases from 25 December until 29 December 2017

Date of purchase	Trading facility (1)	Number of shares	Average price (EUR)	Highest purchase price (EUR)	Lowest purchase price (EUR)	Total (EUR)
27/12/2017	XBRU	19.000	43,4089	43,6000	43,1500
27/12/2017	Total	19.000	43,4089			824.769,10
28/12/2017	XBRU	14.500	43,4870	43,6300	43,2750
28/12/2017	Total	14.500	43,4870			630.561,50
29/12/2017	XBRU	14.800	43,3471	43,5400	43,1550
29/12/2017	Total	14.800	43,3471			641.537,08
General total		48.300	43,4134			2.096.867,68

(1) MIC Code trading facility: Bats (BATE), Chi-X (CHIX), Turquoise (TRQX), Euronext Brussels (XBRU), Off-market (XOFF, BATD en CHID)

Contact

Marc Hofman (CFO) +32 2 363 55 45 investor@colruytgroup.com

About Colruyt Group

Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with approximately 540 own stores and over 600 affiliated stores. In Belgium this includes Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, Cru, Dreamland, Dreambaby and the affiliated stores Spar and Spar Compact. In France, in addition to Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated Coccinelle, CocciMarket and Panier Sympa stores. The group is also actively involved in the foodservice business (supply of food products to hospitals, company canteens and catering businesses) in Belgium (Solucious). The other activities comprise the sale of fuel in Belgium (DATS 24), printing and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy (Eoly). The group employs over 29.000 employees and recorded a EUR 9,4 billion revenue in 2016/17. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.