Umicore

Major Shareholding Notification • May 12, 2015

Transparency declaration by BlackRock Inc.: Acquisition of voting securities

On 11 May, BlackRock Inc., located at 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055, USA, has notified the FSMA and Umicore that on 7 May 2015 it has crossed the statutory threshold of 5%, holding 5.01% of Umicore's shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
BlackRock, Inc	07/05/2015		0	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A.	07/05/2015		2,650,144	224,000,000	1.18%
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.	07/05/2015		61,248	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited	07/05/2015		106,522	224,000,000	0.05%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC	07/05/2015		123,248	224,000,000	0.06%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited	07/05/2015		80,136	224,000,000	0.04%
BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG	07/05/2015		233,538	224,000,000	0.10%
BlackRock Asset Management Ireland Limited	07/05/2015		761,834	224,000,000	0.34%
BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited	07/05/2015		1,438	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Asset Management Schweiz AG	07/05/2015		1,034	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.	07/05/2015		11,158	224,000,000	0.00%
BlackRock Fund Advisors	07/05/2015		1,871,308	224,000,000	0.84%
BlackRock Fund Managers Limited	07/05/2015		834,614	224,000,000	0.37%

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association	07/05/2015		2,863,230	224,000,000	1.28%
BlackRock International Limited	07/05/2015		190,816	224,000,000	0.09%
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited	07/05/2015		75,544	224,000,000	0.03%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited	07/05/2015		130,302	224,000,000	0.06%
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC	07/05/2015		178,848	224,000,000	0.08%
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.	07/05/2015		268,368	224,000,000	0.12%
BlackRock Life Limited	07/05/2015		738,084	224,000,000	0.33%
BlackRock (Singapore) Limited	07/05/2015		2,846	224,000,000	0.00%
iShares (DE) I Investmentaktiengesellschaft mit Teilvermögen	07/05/2015		39,810	224,000,000	0.02%
TOTAL	07/05/2015	> 5.00%	11,224,070	224,000,000	5.01%

The declaration can be found here.

The chain of control has been described as follows:

BlackRock, Inc. is the ultimate controller but the legal entities detailed in section 10 above are the discretionary Investment Managers who holds the shares and exercise the voting rights.

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