Dexia S.A. (Belgium) has informed us that its voting rights on Deutsche EuroShop have exceeded the 3% threshold and amount to 3.02% (1,559,004 shares; total number of DES' shares: 51,631,400).

We want to take this occasion to update our shareholder structure.

Deutsche EuroShop now has around 10,000 shareholders (as at: 27 July 2011). The structural distribution is very stable: institutional investors hold around 56% of the shares, and private investors around 29%. The Otto family’s stake is 15%. The investment company BlackRock currently holds 3.3% of the shares, Dexia - as already mentioned - holds 3.02%.

The proportion of the Company held by foreign investors is stable, too. Slight changes can be seen in the country distribution, with the proportion of Swiss and Belgian investors, in particular, rising. British investors were net sellers in the first half of 2011 (down from 6.2% to 5.3%).