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Crescent NV Major Shareholding Notification 2026
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Major Shareholding Notification
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REGULATED INFORMATION -
Disclosure on a transparency notification (Article 14(1) of the Law of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major shareholdings)
Leuven, Belgium – 5 January 2026 – 6:00 PM CET, Crescent NV, Geldenaaksebaan 329, 3001 Heverlee (Euronext Brussels: OPTI) – CRESCENT NV, renamed to "OPTION" NV, (EURONEXT: OPTI), has received on 31 December 2025 a transparency notification from VAN ZELE HOLDING NV, indicating that the 35% participation threshold had been exceeded. The relevant details of this transparency notification are as follows:
1/ VAN ZELE HOLDING NV
Reason for notification:
Acquisition or transfer of voting securities or voting rights.
Notification by:
A parent company or a controlling person.
Person subject to notification:
VAN ZELE HOLDING NV, 1880 KAPELLE-OP-DEN-BOS, Ipsvoordestraat 61 Eric VAN ZELE
Date of threshold crossing:
30/12/2025
Threshold exceeded:
As a result, the threshold of 35% was exceeded.
Denominator: Total number of shares:
2.534.641.145
Detail of notification:
| A) Voting rights | Previous notification |
After the transaction | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # voting rights | # voting rights | % voting rights | |||
| Holders of voting rights |
Linked to securities | Separate from effects |
Linked to securities |
Separate from effects |
|
| Eric VAN ZELE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| VAN ZELE HOLDING NV |
477.028.424 | 955.410.359 | 0 | 37,69% | 0,00% |
| TOTAL | 955.410.359 | 0 | 37,69% | 0,00% |
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Complete chain of controlled companies through which the shareholding is actually held:
Eric VAN ZELE controls VAN ZELE HOLDING NV.
Additional information: VZH invokes the exemption provided for in Article 52, § 1, 4°, of the takeover decree of 27 April 2007, as a result of which VZH is not obliged to make a mandatory bid for all securities issued by the target company, despite exceeding the threshold. This is an exception in the context of a subscription to a capital increase of a company in difficulty, as referred to in Article 7:228 of the Companies and Associations Code, and decided upon by the general shareholders meeting of the Company dd.30.05.2025.
More details are available on Company's website: https://option.com/.
In accordance with the Articles of Association, the threshold from which a holding must be disclosed was set at 3%.
CONTACT
Edwin Bex Geldenaaksebaan 329 B-3001 Leuven, Belgium TEL: +32 (0) 16 31 74 11 E-mail: [email protected]