Bekaert NV

Transaction in Own Shares • Dec 23, 2014

Regulated information

23 December 2014

Press Katelijn Bohez T +32 56 23 05 71

Investor Relations Jérôme Lebecque T +32 56 23 05 72

www.bekaert.com

Purchase of own shares

Publication on the basis of Article 207 of the Royal Decree of 30 January 2001 implementing the Companies Code

On the basis of Article 207 of the Royal Decree of 30 January 2001 implementing the Companies Code, Bekaert communicates the following share buy-back transactions effected on the regulated market of NYSE Euronext Brussels.

Date	Number of	Average	Highest	Lowest	Total price (€)
	shares	price (€)	price (€)	price (€)
12 December 2014	27 486	26.409592	26.675	26.000	725 894.05
15 December 2014	26 859	25.774122	26.050	25.280	692 267.14
16 December 2014	26 646	25.409212	25.700	25.150	677 053.86
17 December 2014	27 181	25.867751	26.230	25.500	703 111.34
18 December 2014	27 550	26.539687	26.880	26.150	731 168.38
19 December 2014	28 179	25.647486	26.450	24.650	722 720.51
22 December 2014	30 238	25.002053	25.100	24.850	756 012.08
Total since
12 December 2014	194 139	25.797121	26.880	24.650	5 008 227.36
Total since
14 November 2014	634 103	26.768059	27.980	24.650	16 973 706.59

For more information: www.bekaert.com/investors/share information/share buy back

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Bekaert (www.bekaert.com) is a world market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coatings. Bekaert (Euronext Brussels: BEKB) is a global company with headquarters in Belgium, employing 28 000 people worldwide. Serving customers in 120 countries, Bekaert pursues sustainable profitable growth in all its activities and generated combined sales of € 4.1 billion in 2013.