Bekaert NV

Transaction in Own Shares • Jan 6, 2015

Regulated information

6 January 2015

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 (€)
23 December 2014	31 207	25.459310	25.565	24.880	794 508.69
24 December 2014	11 175	25.686616	25.800	25.590	287 047.93
29 December 2014	30 129	25.951701	26.185	25.755	781 898.80
30 December 2014	30 298	25.977400	26.080	25.895	787 063.27
31 December 2014	17 388	26.265215	26.345	25.990	456 699.56
Total since
23 December 2014	120 197	25.851047	26.345	24.880	3 107 218.24
Total since
14 November 2014	754 300	26.621938	27.980	24.650	20 080 928.20

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.