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securities when his/her voting rights reach
five percent, 10 percent, and so on by blocks
of five percent, or when the voting rights fall
below one of these thresholds.
The same disclosure requirement applies if a
person transfers the direct or indirect control
of a corporation or other legal entity which
owns itself three percent at least of the voting
rights of the Company. Similarly, if as a result
of events changing the breakdown of voting
rights, the percentage of the voting rights
reaches, exceeds or falls below any of the
above thresholds, a disclosure is required
even when no acquisition or disposal of
securities has occurred (e.g., as a result of
a capital increase or a capital decrease).
Finally, a disclosure is also required when
persons acting in concert enter into, modify
or terminate their agreement which results
in their voting rights reaching, exceeding or
falling below any of the above thresholds.
The disclosure statements must be
addressed to the BFIC and to the Company at
the latest the fourth trading day following the
day on which the circumstance giving rise to
the disclosure occurred. Unless otherwise
provided by law, a shareholder shall be
allowed to vote at a shareholders’ meeting of
the Company only the number of securities
he/she validly disclosed 20 days, at the
latest, before such meeting.
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 table below, no shareholder
or group of shareholders had declared as of
March 1, 2010 holdings of at least 3% of the
outstanding voting rights of Delhaize Group.
Date Name of Shareholder Number of
Shares Held Percentage of Total Voting
Rights on
Date of
Notification
October 24, 2008
(1)
Rebelco SA (subsidiary of Sofina SA)
Rue de l’industrie 31, 1040 Brussels Belgium
4 050 000 4.04%
February 18, 2009 Citibank N.A.(2)
388 Greenwich Street - 14th Floor, New York, NY 10013
10 682 499 10.62%
February 18, 2010 BlackRock Asset Management Japan Co. Ltd
Marunouchi Trust Tower Main, 1-8-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8217
434 157 0.43%
BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
Murray House, 1 Royal Mint Court, London, EC3N 4HH
1 315 353 1.30%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.
400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105-2618
2 288 516 2.27%
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Murray House, 1 Royal Mint Court, London, EC3N 4HH
544 747 0.54%
BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd
161 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2S1
52 143 0.05%
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.
40 East 52nd Street, New York, 10022 USA
1 278 0.00%
BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
40 East 52nd Street, New York, 10022 USA
129 693 0.13%
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Ltd
Level 18, 120 Colins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
2 274 0.00%
BlackRock Investment Management (Dublin) Ltd
33 King William St, London EC4R 9AS UK
8 498 0.01%
BlackRock Fund Managers Ltd
33 King William St, London EC4R 9AS UK
19 197 0.02%
BlackRock International Ltd
40 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8JB, UK
39 345 0.04%
BlackRock Investment Management UK Ltd
33 King William St, London EC4R 9AS UK
21 094 0.02%
BlackRock Advisors, LLC
40 East 52nd Street, New York, 10022 USA
78 200 0.08%
BlackRock (Luxembourg) SA
6 D rte de Treves, L-2633 Sennengebierg, Luxembourg
20 800 0.02%
BlackRock Asset Management Australia Limited
Level 18, 120 Colins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
96 612 0.10%
Total BlackRock 5 051 907 5.01%
(1)
Situation as of September 1, 2008.
(2)
Citibank, N.A. has succeeded The Bank of New York Mellon as Depositary for the American Depositary Receipts program of Delhaize Group as
of February 18, 2009. Citibank, N.A. exercises the voting rights attached to such shares in compliance with the Deposit Agreement that provides
among others that Citibank, N.A. may vote such shares only in accordance with the voting instructions it receives from the holders of American
Depositary Shares.
On December 31, 2009, the directors and the
Company’s Executive Management owned
as a group 417 648 ordinary shares and
ADRs of Delhaize Group SA combined, which
represented approximately 0.41% of the total
number of outstanding shares of the Company
as of that date. On December 31, 2009, the
Company’s Executive Management owned as
a group 720 560 stock options, warrants and
restricted stock units representing an equal
number of existing or new ordinary shares or
ADRs of the Company.