Pursuant to Belgian law and the Company's Articles of Association, any beneficial owner or any two or more persons acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate or group (each of which shall be deemed a "person" for such purposes) who, after acquiring directly or indirectly the beneficial ownership of any shares, American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") or other securities giving the right to acquire additional shares or ADRs of the Company, is directly or indirectly the beneficial owner of 3%, 5% or any other multiple of 5% of the total outstanding and potential voting rights of the Company which causes such beneficial owner's total voting rights to increase or decrease past any such threshold percentage, shall, within two Belgian business days after becoming so beneficially interested, report its ownership to the Company and to the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission, as set forth in the March 2, 1989 Law on the disclosure of important participations in listed companies and the regulation of public takeovers or in the Royal Decree implementing this Law.
Any person failing to comply with the reporting requirements mentioned above may forfeit all or part of the rights attributable to such Delhaize Group securities, including, but not limited to, voting rights or rights to distributions of cash or share dividends or may even be ordered by the President of the Belgian Commercial Court to sell the securities concerned to a non-related party.
Delhaize Group is not aware of the existence of any shareholders' agreement with respect to the voting rights pertaining to the securities of the Company.
With the exception of the shareholders identified in the following table, no shareholder or group of shareholders had declared to hold at least 3% of the outstanding shares, warrants and convertible bonds of Delhaize Group.
Number of Shares and Potential Voting Rights of Delhaize Group (denominator)
| Effective voting rights attached to shares representing the capital (= number of outstanding shares) |
100,280,507 |
Future, potential or not, voting rights resulting from rights and commitments at the conversion into or the subscription for shares to be issued:
Exercise of warrants
Bond conversions
|
4,567,391
2,995,630 |
|
TOTAL
|
107,843,528
|
Last update: June 16, 2008
Shareholder Notifications
Current Shareholdings above 3%
Current Shareholdings above 3%, the minimum treshhold for shareholder notifications according to Delhaize Group's Articles of Associations.
Date of
Notification |
Name of
Shareholder |
Number of
Shares Held |
Shareholding in Percentage
of the Number of Outstanding Shares, Warrants and Convertible Bonds According to the Notification |
Shareholding in Percentage of the Current Number of Outstanding Shares, Warrants and Convertible Bonds |
| June 15, 2007 |
Rebelco SA (subsidiary of Sofina SA)
Rue de l'industrie 31
1040 Brussels
Belgium
|
4,050,000 |
3.77%
|
3.76%
|
| June 1, 2006 (2) |
Axa (consolidated)
Avenue Matignon 25
75008 Paris
France
Including:
Alliance Capital Management L.P. (U.S.)(1)
Axa Rosenberg (United Kingdom)(1)
|
4,739,254
3,193,898
1,545,356
|
4.45%
3.00%
1.45%
|
4.39%
2.96%
1.43%
|
(1) Held for third parties account
(2) Situation as of June 1, 2006, notified to the Company on september 6, 2007
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