Press Release - Outside trading hours - Regulated information*
1 August 2013
New notifications received by KBC Group NV
Pursuant to the transparency legislation in relation to notifications, KBC Group NV hereby makes public that it has received a shareholding notification of the following shareholder:
| Notification received from following shareholder. | Details | Notification concerns situation on: | Number of ordinary shares of KBC Group held by the shareholder | % of voting rights |
| BlackRock Inc | Update of shareholding causing the 5% threshold to be crossed upwards. | 23 July 2013 | 20 852 545 | 5.00% |
The notifications can be found on www.kbc.com>investor relations>Shareholder structure.
