Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares • Aug 1, 2014

PRESS RELEASE– Halle (Belgium), 1st August 2014 - Regulated information – Repurchase of Colruyt treasury shares

Repurchase of Colruyt treasury shares

Referring to article 207 of the Royal decree of 30 January 2001 in execution of the companies code (art. 620 § 1), as modified by royal decree of 26 April 2009, the Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV communicates that it has purchased 66.017 treasury shares at NYSE Euronext Brussels in the period from 25 July until 31 July 2014.

The Board of Directors has performed this purchase after having been so empowered by the extraordinary general meeting of 16 October 2009.

Date of purchase	Number of shares	Average price (EUR)	Highest price (EUR)	Lowest price (EUR)	Total (EUR)
28/07/14	1.017	37,472	37,500	37,435	38.108,02
30/07/14	33.000	37,183	37,500	37,030	1.227.039,00
31/07/14	32.000	36,570	37,170	36,240	1.170.240,00
Total	66.017	36,890			2.435.387,02

As a result of these transactions, the company possesses a total of 7.974.183 treasury shares on 31 July 2014 or 5,11 % of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 156.169.749).

For an overview of the repurchases of treasury shares since 1 July 2009, we refer to our website www.colruytgroup.com under Financial/Shareholders' info/Overview of capital and shares/Repurchase of shares.

Contacts

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About Colruyt Group

Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with about 470 own stores and over 500 affiliated stores. In Belgium this includes Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, Dreamland, Dreambaby and the affiliated stores Spar and Eurospar. In France, in addition to approximately 70 Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated, independent Coccinelle, CocciMarket and Panier Sympa stores. The group is also actively involved in the foodservice market (supplying food products to hospitals, company canteen kitchens, catering businesses) in France (Pro à Pro) and in Belgium (Solucious). The other activities include the sale of fuels (DATS 24), digital print and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy. The group employs over 27.000 employees and recorded EUR 8,7 billion revenue in 2013/14. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.