Disclosure pursuant to transparency legislation in relation to notifications KBC Group

Regulated information* - 14 June 2011 (after trading hours)
 
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    |Details           |Notification    |Number of      |     % of|
|received from   |                  |concerns        |ordinary shares|   voting|
|following       |                  |situation on:   |KBC Group held |   rights|
|shareholder.    |                  |                |by the         |         |
|                |                  |                |shareholder    |         |
+----------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
|BlackRock Inc.  |Update of         |06 June 2011    |10 833 173     |    3,03%|
|                |participation,    |                |               |         |
|                |leading to        |                |               |         |
|                | crossing of      |                |               |         |
|                |threshold (> 3%)  |                |               |         |
+----------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
 
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.
 
Bericht transparantie - 14 juni 2011 engels: 
http://hugin.info/133947/R/1523385/459371.pdf
 
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