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Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares Dec 12, 2017

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Transaction in Own Shares

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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 237.561 treasury shares in the period from 4 December 2017 until 8 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 2.613.206 treasury shares to date, for a total amount of EUR 116.190.012,59.

As at 8 December 2017 the company holds a total of 7.704.771 treasury shares or 5,14% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 149.935.894).

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.

Date of Trading Number Average Highest Lowest Total (EUR)
purchase facility (1) of shares price (EUR) purchase purchase
price (EUR) price (EUR)
4/12/2017 CHIX 13.121 43,8033 44,1300 43,1650
4/12/2017 XBRU 67.536 43,8003 44,4350 43,1650
4/12/2017 TRQX 2.670 43,9254 44,0400 43,7350
4/12/2017 Total 83.327 43,8048 3.650.122,57
5/12/2017 XBRU 42.597 44,6800 44,8750 43,9850
5/12/2017 Total 42.597 44,6800 1.903.233,96
6/12/2017 XBRU 40.147 44,8038 45,1250 44,5000
6/12/2017 Total 40.147 44,8038 1.798.738,16
7/12/2017 XBRU 35.615 45,0979 45,3800 44,8500
7/12/2017 Total 35.615 45,0979 1.606.161,71
8/12/2017 XBRU 35.875 45,1535 45,2900 44,9400
8/12/2017 Total 35.875 45,1535 1.619.881,81
General total 237.561 44,5281 10.578.138,21

Overview of repurchases from 4 December until 8 December 2017

(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 [email protected]

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.

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