Press Release - Outside trading hours - Regulated information*
20 December 2012 (before trading hours)
Pursuant to the transparency legislation in relation to notifications, KBC Group NV hereby makes public that it has received shareholding notifications of the following shareholders:
| Notification received from following shareholders. | Details | Notification concerns situation on: | Number of ordinary shares KBC Group held by the shareholders | % of voting rights |
| CERA CVBA and KBC ANCORA Comm. VA (combined) | Increase in number of shares held (by CERA1; no change for KBC Ancora²), in combination with increase in total number of KBC shares (following recent capital increase). As a result, the number of voting securities held by CERA CVBA and KBC ANCORA Comm. VA combined in KBC Group NV falls below the 30% notification threshold. In addition, the number of voting securities that KBC ANCORA Comm. VA alone holds in KBC Group NV falls below the notification threshold of 20%. | 13 December 2012 | 111 443 546 | 26,74% |
1 number of shares at notification date: 29 227 166 (7,01%)
2 number of shares at notification date: 82 216 380 (19,72%)
The notifications can be found on www.kbc.com/investor relations/Shareholder structure.
* This news item contains information that is subject to the transparency regulations for listed companies.
