Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares • May 5, 2014

PRESS RELEASE– Halle (Belgium), 5th May 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 5.100 treasury shares at NYSE Euronext Brussels in the period from 25 April until 2 May 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 purchase	Number of shares	Average price (EUR)	Highest price (EUR)	Lowest price (EUR)	Total (EUR)
25/04/14	4.750	39,820	39,900	39,687	189.145,00
28/04/14	350	39,883	39,900	39,860	13.959,05
Total	5.100	39,825			203.104,05

As a result of these transactions, the company possesses a total of 9.412.088 treasury shares on 2 May 2014 or 5,70% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 165.169.749).

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 Jean de Leu de Cecil +32 2 363 51 11

Colruyt Group

Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with more than 460 own stores and over 500 affiliated stores. In Belgium this involves Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, DreamLand, DreamBaby, Spar and Eurospar. In France, in addition to approximately 60 Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated, independent Coccinelle, CocciMarket and Panier Sympa stores. The group is also actively involved in the food service market (supplying food products to hospitals, company canteen kitchens, catering businesses) in France (Pro à Pro) and in Belgium (Solucious). The segment of the other activities comprise the sale of fuel (DATS 24), printing and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy (We Power). The group employs over 26.600 employees and recorded sales of over EUR 8,3 billion in 2012/13. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.