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Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 19, 2025
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Major Shareholding Notification
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Press release Regulated information 19 September 2025 • 08.00 CET Press Kim De Raedt T +32 56 76 70 16 [email protected]
Investor Relations
Guy Marks T +32 56 76 74 73 [email protected]
Company Secretary Isabelle Vander Vekens T +32 56 76 66 90 [email protected]
Publication of a transparency notification
(in accordance with the Law of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major holdings)
NV Bekaert SA ("Bekaert") has received a transparency notification dated 16 September 2025 indicating that Norges Bank has crossed the threshold of 3%, as a result of the acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights in Bekaert.
The notification dated 16 September 2025 contains the following information:
- Reason for the notification: acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights
- Notification by a person that notifies alone
- Persons subject to the notification requirement: Norges Bank, Bankplassen 2, PO Box 1179 Sentrum, 0107 Oslo, Norway
- Date on which the threshold is crossed: 15 September 2025
- Threshold that is crossed: 3%
- Denominator: 52 701 148
- Notified Details:
| A) Voting rights |
Previous notification | After the transaction | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of voting rights |
Number of voting rights | % of voting rights | ||||
| Holders of voting rights | Linked to securities |
Not linked to securities |
Linked to securities |
Not linked to securities |
||
| Norges Bank | 1 782 376 | 1 528 377 | 2.90% | |||
| TOTAL | 1 528 377 | 0 | 2.90% | 0.00% |
| B) Equivalent financial instruments |
After the transaction | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holders of equivalent financial instruments |
Type of financial instrument |
Expiration date |
Exercise period or date |
Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised |
% of voting rights |
Settlement | |
| Norges Bank | Shares on loan (right to recall) |
At any time |
59 723 | 0.11% | Physical | ||
| Norges Bank | CFD | At any time |
143 133 | 0.27% | Cash | ||
| TOTAL | 202 856 | 0.38% |
| Total (A & B) | Number of voting rights |
% of voting rights |
|---|---|---|
| 1 731 233 | 3.29% |
• Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held: Norges Bank is the central bank of Norway. As part of its central bank activities, Norges Bank manages Norway's foreign exchange reserves and is responsible for management of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). The formal responsibility for management of the GPFG is placed with the Ministry of Finance, but is delegated to Norges Bank. All investments are executed by Norges Bank acting as principal and all holdings are registered in the name of Norges Bank.
About Bekaert
Bekaert's ambition is to be the leading partner for shaping the way we live and move, and to always do this in a way that is safe, smart, and sustainable. As a global market and technology leader in material science of steel wire transformation and coating technologies, Bekaert (bekaert.com) also applies its expertise beyond steel to create new solutions with innovative materials and services for markets including new mobility, sustainable construction, and energy transition. Founded in 1880, with its headquarters in Belgium, Bekaert (Euronext Brussels, BEKB) is a global technology company whose 21 000 employees worldwide together generated € 4.0 billion in consolidated sales in 2024.
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