Retail Estates : 01/07/2019 - Announcement of a transparency notification

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A N N O U N C E M E N T O F A T R A N S P A R E N C Y N O T I F I C A T I O N

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1. SUMMARY OF THE NOTIFICATION

Pursuant to the Belgian Transparency Act, Retail Estates NV announces the receipt on 26 June 2019 of a transparency notification dated 24 June 2019 that shows that BlackRock with registered office 55 East52nd Street, New York, NY, 1055, U.S.A has crossed below the threshold of 3% of the total voting rights on 24 June 2019. It concerns an active below the threshold crossing.

2. CONTENT OF THE NOTIFICATION

The notification dated 24 June 2019 contains the following information:

• Reason for the notification
  Acquisition or transfer of voting securities or voting rights
• Notification by
  A person who only gives the notification
• 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 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		161 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario,
	Canada Limited		M5J 2S1, Canada
	BlackRock Asset Management		15/F, 16/F, 17/F Citibank Tower & 17/F ICBC
	North Asia Limited		Tower, 3 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong
	BlackRock Fund Advisors		400	Howard Street, San Francisco,	CA,
		94105, U.S.A.
	BlackRock Institutional Trust		400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA,
	Company, National Association		94105, U.S.A.
	BlackRock International Limited		Exchange Place One, 1	Semple Street,
		Edinburgh, EH3 8BL, U.K.
	BlackRock Investment		Level 26, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC
	Management (Australia) Limited		3000, Australia
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BlackRock Investment Management	12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL,
(UK) Limited	U.K.
BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd.	1-8-3 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Trust Tower
Main, Tokyo, 100-8217, Japan

• Transaction date 24 June 2019
• Threshold that is crossed (in %) 3%
• Denominator 11.827.656

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• Notified details

A) Voting rights	Previous		After the transaction
notification
	# voting rights	# voting rights	% voting rights
Holders of voting		Attached to	Apart from	Attached to	Apart from
rights		securities	securities	securities	securities
BlackRock, Inc.	0	0		0,00%
BlackRock	5.881	5.705		0,05%
(Netherlands) B.V.
BlackRock	93.254
Advisors (UK)	113.781		0,96%
Limited
BlackRock	14.305
Advisors, LLC	10.842		0,09%
BlackRock Asset
Management	13.842	11.050		0,09%
Canada Limited
BlackRock Asset
Management North	216	424		0,00%
Asia Limited
BlackRock Fund	22.641
Advisors	19.538		0,17%
BlackRock
Institutional Trust	149.743
Company,	116.048		0,98%
National
Association
BlackRock	3.080
International	4.422		0,04%
Limited
BlackRock
Investment	2.188	2.190		0,02%
Management
(Australia) Limited
BlackRock
Investment	13.712	15.212		0,13%
Management
(UK) Limited
BlackRock Japan	7.154
Co., Ltd	8.654		0,07%
Subtotal	326.016	307.866		2,60 %
TOTAL	307.866		2,60%

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B) Assimilated
financial				After the transaction
instruments
			Expiration			# voting rights
Holders of assimilated	Type of		Exercise	that can be
financial		date	period or	acquired when		% voting rights	Settlement
financial instruments
instrument			date	exercising the
						instrument
BlackRock	Securities
Advisors (UK)	Lent					10.649		0,09%	Physical
Limited
BlackRock Asset	Securities
Management	Lent					1.500		0,01%	Physical
Canada Limited
BlackRock	Securities
Investment	Lent					21.800		0,18%	Physical
Management
(UK) Limited
BlackRock	Securities					3.100		0,03%	physical
Investment	Lent
Management (UK)
Limited
	TOTAL				37.049		0,31 %
	TOTAL (A & B)			# voting rights		% voting rights
						344.915			2.92 %

• Chain of controlled companies through which the holding is effectively held

BlackRock, Inc.

BlackRock Holdco 2, Inc.

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

BlackRock International Holdings, Inc.

BR Jersey International Holdings L.P.

BlackRock (Singapore) Holdco Pte. Ltd.

BlackRock HK Holdco Limited

BlackRock Lux Finco S.a.r.l.

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