Holdings(s) in Company

RNS Number : 3843M

B&M European Value Retail S.A.

15 July 2014

B&M European Value Retail S.A.

a public limited liability company (société anonyme) Registered office: 16, Avenue Pasteur, L-2310, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

R.C.S. Luxembourg: B 187275 (the"Issuer")

Information about major holdings

For the purposes of article 11 (6) of the Luxembourg law of 11 January 2008 on transparency requirements for issuers whose securities have been admitted to trading on a regulated market, as amended (the "Luxembourg Transparency Law")the Issuer hereby makes public the shareholdernotification the Issuer received from Merrill Lynch International on 14 July 2014 pursuant to articles 8 and 9 of the Luxembourg Transparency Law.

Luxembourg, 15 July 2014

APPENDIX A

Form to beused for the purposes ofnotifying the acquisition or disposal of major holdings pursuant to the law and grand-ducal regulation of 11 January 2008 on transparency requirements for issuers of securities (referred to as "the Transparency Law" and "the Transparency Regulation")

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

B&M European Value Retail S.A.

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

[X] an acquisition or disposal of voting rights

[ ] an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issuedto which voting rights are attached

[ ] an event changing the breakdown of voting rights

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: Bank of America Corporation

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from the person mentioned in point 3.):

Merrill Lynch International

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

08/07/2014

6. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

Above 5%

7. Notified details:

A) Voting rights attached to shares (articles 8 and 9 of the Luxembourg transparency law)
Class/type of shares (if possible using the ISIN CODE)	Situation previous to the Triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of voting rights	Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
		Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
Common Stock - LU1072616219	10,661,891	10,661,891		1.07%

TOTAL

(based on aggregate voting rights)

10,661,891

1.07%

B) Financial Instruments (article 12 of the Luxembourg transparency law)
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of Financial Instrument	Expiration Date	Exercise/Conversion Period/ Date	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	Percentage of voting rights that may be obtained if the instrument is exercised/converted
Greenshoe Option	11/07/2014	Until 11/07/2014	40,000,000	4.00%

		TOTAL (in relation to all expiration dates)	40,000,000	4.00%