BlackRock Shareholding in Fagron Crosses 3% Threshold

On 14 October 2026, Fagron received a transparency notification from BlackRock, Inc., dated 13 October 2026, pursuant to the Belgian act of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of major shareholdings in listed companies. The notification indicated that BlackRock, Inc. had disposed of voting securities or voting rights attached to shares in Fagron, resulting in its shareholding crossing the 3% disclosure threshold downwards. Despite this, BlackRock, Inc. retained equivalent financial instruments that are treated as voting securities.

According to the notification, as of 12 October 2026, BlackRock, Inc. held a total of 2,015,779 voting rights attached to shares in Fagron. This shareholding is distributed across several BlackRock subsidiaries, including: - 73,299 shares held through BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited; - 41,249 shares held through BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited; - 53 shares held through BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.; - 1,173,769 shares held by BlackRock Fund Advisors; - 669,283 shares held by BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association; - 193 shares held by BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited; - 39,191 shares held by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited; - 16,157 shares held by BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; - 2,585 shares held by Aperio Group, LLC.

Additionally, BlackRock, Inc. held a total of 166,184 equivalent financial instruments (Securities Lent and Contracts for Difference) in Fagron. These instruments are distributed as follows: - 102,094 contracts held by BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited; - 22,601 contracts held by BlackRock Advisors, LLC; - 31,403 contracts held by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc; - 5,875 contracts held by BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, National Association; - 4,211 contracts held by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited.

The total number of 2,015,779 shares corresponds to the same number of voting rights, while the 166,184 equivalent financial instruments also correspond to the same number of voting rights. Based on the total number of outstanding voting rights (73,817,024 as the applicable denominator), this shareholding of 2,181,963 voting rights held by BlackRock, Inc. represents 2.96% of the total voting rights.