Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares • Oct 6, 2011

PRESS RELEASE– Halle (Belgium) 6 October 2011 - 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 138.871 treasury shares at NYSE Euronext Brussels in the period from 29 September 2011 to 5 October 2011.

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)
29/09/2011	31.500	31,484	31,690	30,905	991.746,00
30/09/2011	40.000	30,971	31,255	30,750	1.238.840,00
03/10/2011	10.000	30,890	-	-	308.900,00
03/10/2011	18.092	30,934	31,140	30,800	559.657,93
04/10/2011	25.600	30,875	31,270	30,700	790.400,00
05/10/2011	13.679	31,166	31,385	30,950	426.319,71

Further to the decision of the General Assembly of Shareholders dd. 21 September 2011, on 30 September 2011 a total of 101.260 treasury shares have been distributed to employees who chose to receive their 2010-2011 profit share in shares of the company.

As a result of these transactions, the company possesses a total of 11.115.252 treasury shares on 5 October 2011 or 6,60% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 168.294.930).

Contacts

Wim Biesemans +32 2 363 51 11 Jean de Leu de Cecil +32 2 363 51 11

The Colruyt Group

The 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 50 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), the sale of fuels (DATS 24), printing and document management solutions (Symeta), engineering (intrion) and the production of green energy. The Group employs over 24,000 people and has sales of over EUR 7 billion. Colruyt is listed on Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.