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Press release

Antwerp July 13, 2017

REDEMPTION OF SHARES REDEMPTION OF SHARES

The extraordinary shareholders' meeting of Acker- mans & van Haaren NV has on 26 November 2014 renewed the powers delegated to the board of di- rectors to redeem shares for a period of 5 years.

In the framework of these powers, Ackermans & van Haaren has concluded a liquidity contract with Kepler Cheuvreux to improve the liquidity of the AvH share. In the framework of this liquidity pro- gramme, Kepler Cheuvreux has in the period from July 4, 2017 until July 13, 2017 acquired a total of 1,020 shares on Euronext Brussels on behalf of AvH.

AvH shares are acquired and sold under this pro- gramme. Since 1 January 2017, this has resulted in a net redemption of 3 own shares.

Ackermans & van Haaren currently owns 341,000 own shares, or 1.02% of the total shares outstan- ding, in the context of covering the obligations of the company under the stock option plan.

Date

Number of acquired shares

Price per share

(in euros)

Total amount (in euros)

06/07/2017

800

147.90

118,320.00

07/07/2017

220

147.98

32,555.60

Ackermans & van Haaren is a diver- sified group active in 4 core sectors: Marine Engineering & Contracting (DEME, one of the largest dredging companies in the world - CFE and A.A. Van Laere, two construction groups with headquarters in Belgium), Private Banking (Delen Private Bank, one of the largest indepen- dent private asset managers in Belgium, and asset manager JM Finn & Co in the UK - Bank J.Van Breda & C°, niche bank for entrepreneurs and liberal professions in Belgium), Real Estate

& Senior Care (Leasinvest Real Estate, a public regulated real estate company - Extensa, an im-

portant land and real estate developer focused on Belgium, Luxembourg and Central Europe) and Energy & Resources (Sipef, an agro-indus- trial group in tropical agriculture). In 2016, through its share in its participations, the AvH group represented a turnover of 4.9 billion eu- ros and employed 21,165 people. The group concentrates on a limited number of strategic participations with significant potential for growth. AvH is quoted on the BEL20 index, the Private Equity NXT index of Euronext Brussels and the European DJ Stoxx 600.

Website

All press releases issued by AvH and its most important group companies as well as the 'In- vestor Presentation' can also be consulted on the AvH website: www.avh.be. Anyone who is interested to receive the press releases via email has to register to this website.

Financial calendar

August 31, 2017

Half-year results

2017

November 22, 2017

Interimstatement

Q3 2017

Contact

For further information please contact:

Jan Suykens, CEO - President executive committee, Tel. +32.3.897.92.36 Tom Bamelis, CFO - Member executive committee, Tel. +32.3.897.92.42

e-mail: dirsec@avh.be

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