Compagnie d'Entreprises CFE SA

Earnings Release • May 23, 2014

PRESS RELEASE

under embargo until Friday 23 May 2014 – 17H40 CET

CFE

Solid order book for DEME

Compagnie d'Entreprises CFE announces that, since the beginning of 2014, DEME managed to maintain its order book at a fairly high level of about 3.0 billion EUR thanks to new orders, well spread worldwide across dredging, energy related and environmental activities.

Details can be found in DEME's attached press release.

CFE is an industrial Belgian Group active in six different activities : Dredging and Maritime Engineering, Construction, Rail and Road, Multitechnics, Real Estate Development and Management Services and Public-Private Partnership and Concessions.

Based in Belgium, the group is worldwide very active. His first activity, dredging and maritime engineering, is executed by DEME, one of the world's leading dredging contractors. The Group CFE is listed on Euronext Brussels and 60.40% owned by Ackermans & van Haaren.

This press release is available on our website at www.cfe.be.

Note to editors

For further information, please contact, at CFE:

• Renaud Bentégeat, Chief Executive Officer, tel.: +32 2 661 13 27, mobile: +32 497 514 445, rbentegeat@cfe.be; or
• Fabien De Jonge, Chief Financial Officer, tel. +32 2 661 13 12 Mobile +32 497 514 406 fabien_de_jonge@cfe.be.