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Ontex Group NV Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Mar 10, 2016

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Major Shareholding Notification

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PRESS RELEASE Regulated information

Ontex: Transparency Declaration Notification

Disclosure made according to the requirements of Article 14 of the law of 2 May 2007

Aalst-Erembodegem (Belgium), 10 March 2016 – Ontex Group NV ("Ontex") discloses the notifications of significant shareholdings that it has received according to the Belgian Law of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of significant shareholdings in listed companies.

On 7 March 2016, BlackRock, Inc., and its affiliated entities, notified Ontex that it had, as a result of the increase in the total number outstanding ordinary shares of Ontex announced on 3 March 2016, crossed below the threshold of 7.50% of the total number of voting rights in Ontex.

According to its obligation Ontex publishes the content of the notifications that it has received.

Date of Notification: 7 March 2016

Date Threshold Crossed: 29 February 2016

Threshold Crossed: 7.50%

Notification by:

BlackRock, Inc 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055, U.S.A.
BlackRock Advisors, LLC 100 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19809, U.S.A.
BlackRock Asset Management 161 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2S1,
Canada Limited Canada
BlackRock Asset Management JP Morgan House, International Financial Services Centre,
Ireland Limited Dublin 1, Ireland
BlackRock Asset Management Bahnhofstraβe 54, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Schweiz AG
BlackRock Fund Advisors 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A.
BlackRock Fund Managers 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K.
Limited
BlackRock Institutional Trust 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A.
Company, National Association
BlackRock International Limited Exchange Place One, 1 Semple Street, Edinburgh, EH3
8BL, UK
BlackRock Investment
Management, LLC 1 University Square Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.
BlackRock Investment Level 26, 101 Collins Street Melbourne, VIC 3000,
Management (Australia) Australia
Limited
BlackRock Investment 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K.
Management (UK) Limited
1-8-3 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Trust Tower Main, Tokyo,
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 100-8217 Japan
BlackRock Life Limited 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, UK
BlacRock (Luxembourg) S.A. 6D, Route de Treves, Senningerberg, L-2633 Luxembourg
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V Rembrandt Tower, 17th Floor, Amstelplein, Amsterdam,
Netherlands

Denominator on the date of notification: 74,861,108 shares

Voting rights and assimilated financial instruments:

Notification of 7 March 2016:

Previous
notification
After the transaction
# voting
rights
# voting rights % of voting rights
Holders of Linked to Not linked Linked to Not linked
voting rights securities to securities securities to
securities
BlackRock, Inc 0 0 0.00%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC 125,080 129,480 0.17%
BlackRock Asset
Management Canada
Limited
3,483 3,513 0.00%
BlackRock Asset
Management Ireland
Limited
95,957 102,430 0.14%
BlackRock Asset
Management Schweiz AG
7,608 7,608 0.01%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 312,051 327,300 0.44%
BlackRock Fund Managers
Limited
1,099,978 813,382 1.09%
BlackRock Institutional
Trust Company, National
Association
408,189 438,865 0.59%
BlackRock International
Limited
19,775 42,516 0.06%
BlackRock Investment
Management, LLC
21,067 14,237 0.02%
BlackRock Investment
Management (Australia)
Limited
24,720 25,620 0.03%
BlackRock Investment
Management (UK)
Limited
95,505 102,393 0.14%
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 55,183 43,377 0.06%
BlackRock Life Limited 16,160 26,848 0.04%
BlacRock (Luxembourg)
S.A.
3,158,033 3,366,676 4.50%
BlackRock (Netherlands)
B.V.
0 11,831 0.02%
Total 5,456,076 0 7.29% 0.00%

Chain of controlled entities through which the shareholding is effectively owned:

BlackRock, Inc. is the ultimate controller but the legal entities detailed in the section above are the discretionary Investment Managers who hold the shares and exercise the voting rights.

Notifications of significant shareholdings to be made according to the Law of 2 May 2007 should be sent to: [email protected]

This notification will be posted on:http://www.ontexglobal.com/press-room

INVESTOR ENQUIRIES

Philip Ludwig +32 53 333 730 [email protected]

PRESS ENQUIRIES

Gaëlle Vilatte +32 53 333 708 [email protected]

About Ontex

Ontex is a leading producer of disposable personal hygiene products, ranging from baby diapers to products for feminine hygiene and adult incontinence. Ontex's products are distributed in more than 100 countries through Ontex brands as well as leading retailer brands.

The group employs over 5,500 staff and has a presence in 23 countries. Ontex is listed on Euronext Brussels.