Umicore

Major Shareholding Notification • Oct 1, 2014

Share information 1 October 2014

CP-2014-49-R Regulated information 08:30 CET

Transparency declaration by Umicore following the cancellation of shares

On 29 September, Umicore, located at Broekstraat 31 rue du Marais, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, has notified the FSMA that on 26 September 2014, subsequent to the cancellation of 8,000,000 treasury shares, it has crossed the statutory threshold of 5%, holding 3.49% of its own shares and voting rights.

name	date	threshold	# voting rights	denominator	% voting rights
Umicore	26/09/2014		7,821,854	224,000,000	3.49%
TOTAL	26/09/2014	< 5.00%	7,821,854	224,000,000	3.49%

The declaration can be found on:

http://www.umicore.com/investorrelations/en/shareInformation/shareholderStructure/Declarations/Umicore20 140929.pdf

For more information

Investor Relations:

Evelien Goovaerts +32 2 227 78 38 evelien.goovaerts@umicore.com