Share Issue/Capital Change • May 9, 2019
Share Issue/Capital Change
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PRESS RELEASE – Halle (Belgium), 09/05/2019, 08h30 CET – Regulated information
Limited liability company Edingensesteenweg 196 – 1500 Halle Enterprise number: 0400.378.485
Pursuant to a decision of the Board of Directors, the company has cancelled a total of 5.500.000 treasury shares by notarial deed of 8 May 2019. This decision was made in accordance with the authorisation granted to the Board of Directors by the Extraordinary General Assembly of Shareholders of 14 October 2014.
The new data relating to the shares and capital of the company following this transaction are as follows:
The shareholders acting in concert - Colruyt family and relatives, Colruyt Group and Sofina Group - have not exceeded or fallen below any notification threshold as a result of this change in the denominator.
No thresholds have been laid down in the articles of association. For transparency notifications the statutory thresholds per bracket of 5% therefore apply.
The overview of the company's capital and shares will be updated on our website www.colruytgroup.com under investors/shareholders' information/overview of capital and shares/capital each time one of the numbers listed above changes.
Kris Castelein, Secretary of the Board of Directors T +32 2 363 55 45 [email protected]
Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with approximately 560 own stores and over 580 affiliated stores. In Belgium this includes Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, Cru, Dreamland, Dreambaby and the affiliated stores Spar and Spar Compact. In France, in addition to Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated Coccinelle, Coccimarket and Panier Sympa stores. The group is also actively involved in the foodservice business (supply of food products to hospitals, company canteens and catering businesses) in Belgium (Solucious). The other activities comprise the sale of fuel in Belgium (DATS 24), printing and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy. The group employs over 29.300 employees and recorded a EUR 9,0 billion revenue in 2017/18. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.
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