Disclosure of received notification

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Nazareth (Belgium)/Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 24 October 2019

Disclosure of received notification

Pursuant to the Belgian law of 2 May 2007 regarding the disclosure of major shareholdings in listed companies, Fagron received the following notification.

Notification of Norges Bank, received on 21 October 2019

• On 21 October 2019, Fagron received a notification that the shareholding of Norges Bank had crossed the disclosure threshold of 3% on 18 October 2019 as the result of the disposal of voting securities or voting rights.
• The notification is made by:
  • A person that notifies alone.
• On the notification date, Norges Bank (indirectly) held a total of 1,937,394 voting rights and 86,239 equivalent financial instruments (right to recall).
• Based on the denominator of 71,843,904 (total number of voting rights), Norges Bank (indirectly) held on the notification date 2.82% of the total number of voting rights.
• Norges Bank is the central bank of Norway. As part of its central bank activities, Norges Bank manages Norway's foreign exchange reserves and is responsible for management of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). The formal responsibility for management of the GPFG is placed with the Ministry of Finance but is delegated to Norges Bank. All investments are executed by Norges Bank acting as principal and all holdings are registered in the name of Norges Bank.
• The notification of Norges Bank can be viewed on investors.fagron.com via this .

In the event of differences between the English translation and the Dutch original of this press release, the latter prevails.

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