Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares • Aug 18, 2014

PRESS RELEASE– Halle (Belgium), 18th August 2014 - Regulated information – Repurchase of Colruyt treasury shares

Repurchase of Colruyt treasury shares

Referring to article 207 of the Royal decree of 30 January 2001 in execution of the companies code (art. 620 § 1), as modified by royal decree of 26 April 2009, the Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV communicates that it has purchased 63.283 treasury shares at NYSE Euronext Brussels in the period from 8 August until 15 August 2014.

The Board of Directors has performed this purchase after having been so empowered by the extraordinary general meeting of 16 October 2009.

Date of	Number	Average	Highest	Lowest	Total
purchase	of shares	price	price	price	(EUR)
		(EUR)	(EUR)	(EUR)
8/08/14	2.183	35,990	36,000	35,965	78.566,17
14/08/14	29.300	35,826	36,000	35,660	1.049.701,80
15/08/14	31.800	35,844	36,000	35,650	1.139.839,20
Totaal	63.283	35,841			2.268.107,17

As a result of these transactions, the company possesses a total of 8.106.070 treasury shares on 15 August 2014 or 5,19 % of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 156.169.749).

For an overview of the repurchases of treasury shares since 1 July 2009, we refer to our website www.colruytgroup.com under Financial/Shareholders' info/Overview of capital and shares/Repurchase of shares.

Contacts

Marc Hofman +32 2 363 51 11

About Colruyt Group

Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with about 470 own stores and over 500 affiliated stores. In Belgium this includes Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, Dreamland, Dreambaby and the affiliated stores Spar and Eurospar. In France, in addition to approximately 70 Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated, independent Coccinelle, CocciMarket and Panier Sympa stores. The group is also actively involved in the foodservice market (supplying food products to hospitals, company canteen kitchens, catering businesses) in France (Pro à Pro) and in Belgium (Solucious). The other activities include the sale of fuels (DATS 24), digital print and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy. The group employs over 27.000 employees and recorded EUR 8,7 billion revenue in 2013/14. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.