Leuven, 20 August 2019 (17.40 hrs CEST)
Summary of the notification
KBC Ancora has received a transparency notification dated 16 August 2019 indicating that BlackRock Inc., by virtue of acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights, has fallen below the notification threshold of 1%. The number of KBC Ancora shares with voting right reduced to 0.996%. However, the sum of the number of KBC Ancora shares with voting right (0.996%) and the number of equivalent financial instruments (0.01%), via which voting rights may be acquired if the instrument is exercised, remains above 1%.