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Colruyt N.V.

Transaction in Own Shares Mar 20, 2018

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Transaction in Own Shares

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Repurchase of treasury shares

Referring to article 207 of the Royal Decree of 30 January 2001 in execution of the Companies Code (art. 620 § 1) as amended by Royal Decree of 26 April 2009, the Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV communicates that it has purchased a total of 114.607 treasury shares in the period from 12 March 2018 until 16 March 2018 at the regulated market Euronext Brussels, at an MTF or outside of an organised trading facility in accordance with applicable regulations.

The Board of Directors of Colruyt Group has performed this purchase of treasury shares under the share buyback programme announced on 27 September 2017 for a maximum amount of EUR 350 million. The programme started on 2 October 2017 and has an expected term of 2 years. Purchases will be made in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations and under the authorisation granted by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of 14 October 2014. Under this ongoing share buyback programme, Colruyt Group has purchased a total of 6.258.295 treasury shares to date, for a total amount of EUR 276.180.137,79.

As at 16 March 2018 the company holds a total of 11.349.860 treasury shares or 7,56% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 150.196.352).

An overview of the repurchases of treasury shares since 1 July 2009, will be available on our website www.colruytgroup.com under:

Investors/Shareholders' information/Overview of capital and shares/Repurchase of shares.

Date of Trading Number Average Highest Lowest Total (EUR)
purchase facility (1) of shares price (EUR) purchase purchase
price (EUR) price (EUR)
14/03/2018 BTE 627 44,2998 44,3600 44,2400
14/03/2018 CHIX 3.980 44,3072 44,3900 44,2400
14/03/2018 XBRU 39.000 44,2761 44,5800 44,1500
14/03/2018 Total 43.607 44,2793 1.930.887,44
15/03/2018 BTE 2.286 44,2961 44,4300 44,2100
15/03/2018 CHIX 339 44,3463 44,4200 44,3100
15/03/2018 XBRU 25.332 44,3034 44,5000 44,2000
15/03/2018 Total 27.957 44,3033 1.238.587,36
16/03/2018 BTE 3.494 44,2317 44,2900 44,1000
16/03/2018 CHIX 2.722 44,2022 44,2700 44,1100
16/03/2018 XBRU 36.827 44,2433 44,3900 44,1200
16/03/2018 Total 43.043 44,2398 1.904.213,71
General total 114.607 44,2703 5.073.688,50

Overview of repurchases from 12 March until 16 March 2018

(1) MIC Code trading facility: Bats (BATE), Chi-X (CHIX), Turquoise (TRQX), Euronext Brussels (XBRU), Off-market (XOFF, BATD, BATF en CHID)

Contact

Kris Castelein (Secretary to the Board of Directors) +32 2 363 55 45 [email protected]

About Colruyt Group

Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with approximately 540 own stores and over 600 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 (Eoly). The group employs over 29.000 employees and recorded a EUR 9,4 billion revenue in 2016/17. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.

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