Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares • Dec 20, 2013

PRESS RELEASE– Halle (Belgium), 20 December 2013 - 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 94.097 treasury shares at NYSE Euronext Brussels in the period from 13 December until 19 December 2013.

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 (EUR)	price (EUR)	price (EUR)	(EUR)
13/12/2013	20.000	39,102	39,170	38,945	782.040,00
16/12/2013	28.076	39,330	39,495	39,000	1.104.229,08
17/12/2013	23.051	39,543	39,650	39,465	911.505,69
18/12/2013	22.970	39,610	39,650	39,520	909.841,70
Total	94.097	39,402			3.707.616,47

As a result of these transactions, the company possesses a total of 8.668.314 treasury shares on 19 December 2013 or 5,26% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 164.852.849).

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 some 400 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. Colruyt 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). Colruyt Group employs over 26.500 people and has sales of over EUR 8,3 billion. Colruyt is listed on Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.