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Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares Oct 31, 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 239.471 treasury shares in the period from 23 October 2017 until 27 October 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 1.206.582 treasury shares to date, for a total amount of EUR 53.782.581,38.

As at 27 October 2017 the company holds a total of 6.298.147 treasury shares or 4,20% 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:

Financial/Shareholders' info/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)
23/10/2017 XBRU 44.700 44,7920 44,9350 44,6050
23/10/2017 TOTAL 44.700 44,7920 2.002.202,40
24/10/2017 CHIX 5.559 44,5477 44,9150 44,2850
24/10/2017 XBRU 39.510 44,5588 44,9300 44,2800
24/10/2017 TOTAL 45.069 44,5574 2.008.157,46
25/10/2017 CHIX 8.644 44,0817 44,3650 43,8600
25/10/2017 XBRU 41.853 44,0626 44,3800 43,8600
25/10/2017 TOTAL 50.497 44,0659 2.225.195,75
26/10/2017 CHIX 10.000 44,0707 44,2300 43,8300
26/10/2017 XBRU 41.752 44,0580 44,2350 43,8300
26/10/2017 TOTAL 51.752 44,0605 2.280.219,00
27/10/2017 XBRU 47.453 44,3209 44,6200 44,0000
27/10/2017 TOTAL 47.453 44,3209 2.103.159,67
General total 239.471 44,3433 10.618.934,28

Overview of repurchases from 23 October until 27 October 2017

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

PRESS RELEASE – Halle (Belgium), 31 October 2017 08h30 – Regulated information

Contact

Marc Hofman (CFO) +32 2 363 55 45 [email protected]

(2)

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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