Disclosure pursuant to transparency legislation in relation to notifications KBC Group

Regulated information* - 18 July 2011 (After trading hours)
 
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    |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         |11 July 2011    |10 840 797     |    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 - 18juli2011 engels: 
http://hugin.info/133947/R/1531592/466176.pdf
 
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