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Proximus SA Major Shareholding Notification 2017

Apr 25, 2017

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Major Shareholding Notification

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Transparency declaration on Proximus shareholding

PROXIMUS

Press release Regulated information Tuesday, 25 April 2017 at 16:30 Publication of a transparency notification (Article 14, first paragraph, of the Law of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major holdings)

1. Summary of the notification1

PROXIMUS has received a transparency notification dated 25th April 2017 indicating that Blackrock Inc. now holds, by virtue of the disposal of shares on 21 April 2017 2.94% of the voting rights of the company and is therefore below the threshold of 3%.

2. Content of the notification3

The notification dated 24th April 2017 contains the following information:

Reason for the notification

Acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights

Notification by

A parent undertaking or a controlling person

Persons subject to the notification requirement

Name Address (for legal entities)
BlackRock, Inc. 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, U.S.A.
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V. Rembrandt Tower, 17th floor, Amstelplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
BlackRock (Singapore) Limited 20 Anson Road #18-01, Singapore, 79912, Singapore
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K.
BlackRock Advisors, LLC 100 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE, 19809, U.S.A.
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited 161 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2S1, Canada
BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG Max-Joseph-Straße 6, Munich, 80333, Germany
BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited 15/F, 16/F, 17/F Citibank Tower & 17/F ICBC Tower, 3 Garden Road, Central,
Hong Kong
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10055, U.S.A.
BlackRock Fund Advisors 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, U.S.A.
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National
Association
400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, U.S.A.
BlackRock International Limited Exchange Place One, 1 Semple Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8BL, U.K.
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia)
Limited
Level 37, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, U.K.
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC 1 University Square Drive, Princeton, NJ, 8540, U.S.A.
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 1-8-3 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Trust Tower Main, Tokyo, 100-8217, Japan
  • Transaction date: 21/04/2017
  • Threshold that is crossed (in %): 3 %
  • Denominator: 338,025,135

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 the
securities
Linked to
securities
Not linked to the
securities
BlackRock, Inc. 0 0 0,00%
BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V. 52.594 20.776 0,01%
BlackRock (Singapore) Limited 0 11.721 0,00%
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited 47.532 619.243 0,18%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC 68.331 117.944 0,03%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada
Limited
74.580 13.867 0,00%
BlackRock Asset Management
Deutschland AG
1.252.842 2.369.303 0,70%
BlackRock Asset Management North
Asia Limited
919 1.033 0,00%
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. 24.870 207.111 0,06%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 2.827.456 4.699.219 1,39%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company,
National Association
2.589.483 1.082.157 0,32%
BlackRock International Limited 28.836 28.949 0,01%
BlackRock Investment Management
(Australia) Limited
44.626 79.024 0,02%
BlackRock Investment Management
(UK) Limited
104.916 141.284 0,04%
BlackRock Investment Management,
LLC
233.583 328.240 0,10%
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. 162.603 201.318 0,06%
iShares (DE) I
Investmentaktiengesellschaft mit
348.722 0 0,00%
Teilvermögen
BlackRock (Channel Islands) Limited
16.891 0 0,00%
BlackRock Asset Management Ireland
Limited
1.559.374 0 0,00%
BlackRock Asset Management Schweiz
AG
733 0 0,00%
BlackRock Fund Managers Limited 219.814 0 0,00%
BlackRock Life Limited 474.849 0 0,00%
BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. 15.653 0 0,00%
Subtotal 10.149.207 9.921.189 2,94%
TOTAL 9.921.189 0 2,94% 0,00%
B) Equivalent financial instruments After the transaction
Holders of equivalent
financial instruments
Type of financial instrument Expiration date Exercise period or
date
# of voting rights
that may be
acquired if the
instrument is
exercised
% of voting rights Settlement
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited Securities Lent 2.204.546 0,65% physical -
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited Contract For Difference 11.282 0,00% cash -
BlackRock Advisors, LLC Contract For Difference 1.755 0,00% cash -
BlackRock Asset Management Canada
Limited
Securities Lent 94.700 0,03% physical -
BlackRock Fund Advisors Securities Lent 7.467 0,00% physical -
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company,
National Association
Securities Lent 1.703.649 0,50% physical -
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company,
National Association
Contract For Difference 39.335 0,01% cash -
BlackRock International Limited Contract For Difference 18.850 0,01% cash -
BlackRock Investment Management
(UK) Limited
Securities Lent 111.615 0,03% physical -
BlackRock Investment Management
(UK) Limited
Contract For Difference 292.028 0,09% cash -
BlackRock Investment Management,
LLC
Securities Lent 72.266 0,02% physical -
BlackRock Investment Management,
LLC
Contract For Difference 52.125 0,02% cash -
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. Securities Lent 19.500 0,01% physical +
TOTAL 4.629.118 1,37%

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TOTAL (A & B) # of voting rights % of voting rights
CALCULATE 14.550.307 4,30%

Chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held Please see the full chain of control in a PDF which is sent separately to this notification

Additional information

The disclosure obligation arose due to voting rights attached to shares for BlackRock, Inc. going below 3%

Investor Relations department:

Nancy Goossens Sarah Franklin [email protected] [email protected] +32 2 202 8241 +32 2 202 7711

http://www.proximus.com/en/investors/proximus-share

Press Relations department Proximus: +32 2 202 44 44

Jan Margot Haroun Fenaux
+32 475 58 50 37 +32 476 60 03 33

About Proximus

Proximus Group is a telecommunication & ICT company operating in the Belgian and international markets, servicing residential, enterprise and public customers. Proximus' ambition is to become a digital service provider, connecting everyone and everything so people live better and work smarter. Through its best-quality integrated fixed and mobile networks, Proximus provides access anywhere and anytime to digital services and easy-to-use solutions, as well as to a broad offering of multimedia content. Proximus transforms technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Cloud and Security into solutions with positive impact on people and society. With 13,633 employees, all engaged to offer customers a superior experience, the Group realized an underlying Group revenue of EUR 5,871 million end-2016.

Proximus (Euronext Brussels: PROX) is also active in Luxembourg through its affiliates Telindus Luxembourg and Tango and in the Netherlands through Telindus Netherlands. Its subsidiary BICS offers best-in-class international wholesale solutions for voice and mobile data service providers worldwide.

For more information, visit www.proximus.com & www.proximus.be