Compagnie d'Entreprises CFE SA

Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Oct 2, 2013

PRESS RELEASE

under embargo until 17:40 CET on Thursday 3 October 2013

CFE

Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting

The Board of Directors of CFE, which met today, Thursday 3 October 2013, has decided to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company on 13 November 2013, in order to propose a capital increase by way of a contribution in kind by the limited liability company Ackermans & van Haaren ("AvH") of 2,256,450 registered shares of the limited liability company Dredging, Environmental & Marine Engineering ("DEME") in consideration of the issuance of 12,222,222 new shares of the company to be subscribed at a subscription price of EUR 45 per share.

This contribution in kind makes part of a global transaction in which it is considered that AvH will transfer its 50% stake in DEME to CFE, this transaction being followed by the launch by AvH of a mandatory take over bid in relation to CFE, at a price of EUR 45 per share, and by the sale by Vinci to AvH of half of its stake in CFE, namely 23.42% (before the capital increase). The terms of this global transaction were detailed in a joint press release by AvH and Vinci dated 19 September 2013.

The agenda for the Extraordinary General Meeting, the special reports of the Board of Directors and the auditor pursuant to Article 602-1 of the company Code, and the fairness opinion issued by ING, are available on our website www.cfe.be.

The invitation to attend the General Meeting will be published in the press, in the Belgian Official Journal and on CFE's website on 11 October 2013.

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CFE is a multi-disciplinary group active in construction and associated services and listed on Euronext Brussels, of which VINCI owns 46.84% of the capital. In Belgium it is one of the main players in its historical construction business, and it also has a presence in the Netherlands, in Luxembourg, in Central Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia and in Africa. CFE also owns 50% of the capital of DEME, one of the world's leading dredging companies.

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
• Jacques Ninanne, Deputy General Manager Corporate Chief Financial Officer, tel.: +32 2 661 17 28, jninanne@cfe.be