PRESS RELEASE - Halle (Belgium), 17 March 2020 08h30 - Regulated information

Repurchase of treasury shares

Referring to article 7:215 § 1 of the Companies and Associations Code and article 8:4 of the Royal Decree of 29 April 2019 in execution of the Companies and Associations Code, the Etn. Fr. Colruyt NV communicates that it has purchased a total of 159.358 treasury shares in the period from 9 March 2020 until 13 March 2020 at the regulated market Euronext Brussels, at an MTF or outside of an organised trading facility in accordance with applicable regulations.

The Board of Directors of Colruyt Group has performed this purchase after having been so empowered by the extraordinary general meeting of 10 October 2019.

As a result of these transactions, the company holds a total of 2.769.493 treasury shares on 13 March 2020 or 2,00% of the total number of shares issued (i.e. 138.432.588).

An overview of the repurchases of treasury shares since 1 July 2009, will be available on our website www.colruytgroup.comunder:

Investors/Shareholders' information/Overview of capital and shares/Repurchase of shares.

Overview of repurchases from 9 March 2020 until 13 March 2020

Date of

Trading

purchase

facility (1)

09/03/2020

XBRU

09/03/2020

Total

10/03/2020

XBRU

10/03/2020

Total

11/03/2020

XBRU

11/03/2020

Total

12/03/2020

XBRU

12/03/2020

Total

13/03/2020

XBRU

13/03/2020

Total

General total

Number

Average

Highest

Lowest

Total (EUR)

of shares

price (EUR)

purchase

purchase

price (EUR)

price (EUR)

23.000

44,5396

45,6200

42,9200

23.000

44,5396

1.024.410,80

28.000

43,9569

45,6100

42,5900

28.000

43,9569

1.230.793,20

32.000

43,1934

44,0000

42,4200

32.000

43,1934

1.382.188,80

40.000

41,5855

42,4200

40,8600

40.000

41,5855

1.663.420,00

36.358

42,5190

44,0000

41,2800

36.358

42,5190

1.545.905,80

159.358

42,96

6.846.718,60

  1. MIC Code trading facility: Bats (BATE), Chi-X (CHIX), Turquoise (TRQX), Euronext Brussels (XBRU), Off-market (XOFF, BATD, BATF en CHID)

Contact

Kris Castelein (Secretary to the Board of Directors) +32 2 363 55 45 investor@colruytgroup.com

About Colruyt Group

Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with approximately 570 own stores and 580 affiliated stores. In Belgium this includes Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, Cru, Dreamland, Dreambaby and the affiliated stores Spar and Spar Compact. In France, in addition to Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated Coccinelle, Coccimarket and Panier Sympa stores. The group is also actively involved in the foodservice business (supply of food products to hospitals, company canteens and catering businesses) in Belgium (Solucious). The other activities comprise the sale of fuel in Belgium (DATS 24), printing and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy. The group employs over 29.900 employees and recorded a EUR 9,4 billion revenue in 2018/19. Colruyt is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.

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