Bekaert NV

Transaction in Own Shares • Dec 12, 2014

Regulated information

12 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 (€)
4 December 2014	23 242	26.904859	27.340	26.700	625 322.73
5 December 2014	24 324	27.020161	27.255	26.860	657 238.40
8 December 2014	25 824	27.464190	27.595	26.870	709 235.24
9 December 2014	26 206	27.053663	27.245	26.920	708 968.29
10 December 2014	26 895	26.894135	27.020	26.720	723 317.76
11 December 2014	27 322	26.698724	26.820	26.480	729 462.54
Total since
4 December 2014	153 813	27.003862	27.595	26.480	4 153 544.96
Total since
14 November 2014	439 964	27.196496	27.980	25.700	11 965 479.23

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 27 000 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.