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Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares Oct 17, 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 223.228 treasury shares in the period from 9 October 2017 until 13 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 448.851 treasury shares to date, for a total amount of EUR 19.981.912,85.

As at 13 October 2017 the company holds a total of 5.540.416 treasury shares or 3,70% 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)
9/10/2017 XBRU 45.014 44,4145 44,7200 44,2050
9/10/2017 Total 45.014 44,4145 1.999.274,30
10/10/2017 CHIX 14.449 44,8273 44,2950 45,1150
10/10/2017 XBRU 29.957 44,8303 44,3100 45,1150
10/10/2017 Total 44.406 44,8293 1.990.689,90
11/10/2017 CHIX 9.920 44,8299 45,0750 44,5250
11/10/2017 XBRU 34.756 44,8233 45,0800 44,3750
11/10/2017 Total 44.676 44,8248 2.002.592,76
12/10/2017 CHIX 14.487 44,7034 44,8500 44,4150
12/10/2017 XBRU 30.213 44,6947 44,8550 44,4200
12/10/2017 Total 44.700 44,6975 1.997.978,25
13/10/2017 CHIX 6.991 44,8007 44,8900 44,7400
13/10/2017 XBRU 37.441 44,8962 45,0750 44,6400
13/10/2017 Total 44.432 44,8812 1.994.161,48
General total 223.228 44,7287 9.984.696,69

Overview of repurchases from 9 October until 13 October 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]

(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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