Miko N.V. — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Oct 18, 2016

PRESS RELEASE

MIKO N.V. – EURONEXT BRUSSELS

REGULATED INFORMATION

Turnhout, Belgium – October 18th 2016.

Publication of a Transparency notification

(article 14, paragraph 1 of the Act of May 2nd 2007 on the disclosure of major shareholdings in issuers whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market and laying down miscellaneous provisions (the "Act"))

1. Summary of the notification

Miko N.V. has received a transparency notification dated October 10th 2016, indicating that FMR LLC, now holds, by virtue of acquisition of shares on October 3rd 2016, 4,03% of the voting rights of the company.

2. Content of the notification

The notification dated October 10th 2016 contains the following information:

• 1) Reason for the notification: acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights;
• 2) Notification by: a parent undertaking or a controlling person;

3) Persons subject to the notification requirement

Name	Address
FMR LLC	The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19801

• 4) Transaction Date: October 3rd 2016
• 5) Threshold that is crossed: 3%
• 6) Denominator: 1.242.000

7) Notified Details

A) Voting Rights	Previous notification	After the transaction
	# of voting rights	# of voting rights		% of voting rights
Holders of voting rights		Linked to securities	Not linked to securities	Linked to securities	Not linked to securities
FMR LLC	37.591	0	0	0,00%	0,00%
FMR Co., Inc		49.996	0	4,03%	0,00%
Subtotal	37.591	49.996	0	4,03%	0,00%
TOTAL		49.996	0	4,03%	0,00%

8) Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held:

The holdings attributable to FMR LLC arise from holdings of various undertakings for collective investment that are managed by FMR Co. Inc, which is an entity that is a subsidiary of and controlled by FMR LLC. These undertakings for collective investment have granted FMR LLC discretionary power to vote the securities in accordance with the FMR LLC board proxy voting policy. FMR LLC is not a controlled undertaking.

9) Additional Information

FMR Co. Inc is a subsidiary undertaking of Fidelity Management & Research Company, which itself is a subsidiary undertaking of FMR LLC (the ultimate parent company) and is above a notifiable threshold as of October 3rd 2016.

This press release is also available that Miko N.V.'s corporate website through http://www.mikocoffee.com/pers-nl.html .

For questions regarding this press release, please feel free to contact Mr. Philip Wouters (Group Legal Counsel): philip.wouters@miko.be - Tel: +32 (0) 14 40 85 18 - Mob: +32 (0)477 56 56 86.

ABOUT MIKO

Miko has been active in coffee service for over 200 years and in plastic packaging for some 40 years now, concluded an IPO on Euronext Brussels in 1998. Miko follows a "two-pillar strategy" in which its core activities – coffee service and plastic packaging – are practically independent entities with their own management, so that each activity can follow its own growth path. The group employs 958 people and achieved a turnover of EUR 178 million in 2015, split 50% - 50% between coffee services and plastic packaging. Miko is an international group with companies in Belgium, France, UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Australia