PRESS RELEASE- Halle (Belgium) 26 September 2012 - Occasional information

General Shareholders' Meeting Etn Fr. Colruyt N.V. of 26/09/2012 Approval of the dividend and renewal of mandates of directors

In accordance with the resolutions carried out at the General Shareholders' Meeting of 26/09/2012 a dividend will be paid for the amount of:
- for the ordinary shares:
Gross 0.95 EUR
Net 0.7125 EUR per share after deduction of 25%
withholding tax
- for the VVPR shares:
Gross 0.95 EUR
Net 0.7505 EUR per share after deduction of 21%
withholding tax
The dividend will be payable as of 03/10/2012 on presentation of coupon no. 2 at the counters of every financial institution in Belgium. BNP Paribas Fortis Bank will act as the principal paying agent. The ex-date (detaching of the coupons) will be 28/09/2012 and the record date (centralisation of the coupons) will be 02/10/2012.
The General Meeting of Shareholders has approved the renewal of the mandates of directors of
Mr. François Gillet and Anima NV, with Mr. Jef Colruyt acting as
permanent representative. The new mandates will expire after the Annual General Meeting of 2016.
The "Chairman's Address for the General Meeting of Shareholders of Etn. Fr. Colruyt N.V. of
26 September 2012" has been published on our website on 26/09/2012 6 p.m.
The report of the General Meeting will be published on our website www.colruytgroup.comshortly.

Contacts

Wim Biesemans +32 2 363 51 11 Jean de Leu de Cecil +32 2 363 51 11

The Colruyt Group

The Colruyt Group operates in the food and non-food distribution sector in Belgium, France and Luxembourg with some 400 own stores and over 500 affiliated stores. In Belgium this involves Colruyt, OKay, Bio-Planet, DreamLand, DreamBaby, Spar and Eurospar. In France, in addition to approximately 60 Colruyt stores, there are also affiliated, independent Coccinelle, CocciMarket and Panier Sympa stores. The Group is also actively involved in the food service market (supplying food products to hospitals, company canteen kitchens, catering businesses), the sale of fuels (DATS 24), printing and document management solutions (Symeta) and the production of green energy. The Group employs over 25,200 people and has sales of over

EUR 7.8 billion. Colruyt is listed on Euronext Brussels (COLR) under ISIN code BE0974256852.

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