Company Registration No. (NIRE) 35.300.089.901
NOTICE TO THE MARKET
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição ("Company") hereby informs that it has received the correspondence below in this date, from Casino Guichard-Perrachon, Company's controlling shareholder.The Company's Investor Relations Department is at shareholders' disposal to clarify any matters relating to the purpose of this Notice through telephone number +55 11 3886?0421 or e?mail gpa.ri@grupopaodeacucar.com.br.
São Paulo, September 09, 2013
Daniela SabbagInvestor Relations Officer
Paris, September 9th, 2013.
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição ("Company" or "CBD")
Avenida Brigadeiro Luis Antônio, 3142
01402-901 - São Paulo, SP - Brazil
Fax: 55 11 3886-2677
e-mail: gpa.ri@grupopaodeacucar.com.br
Dear Sirs,
Pursuant to Article 12 of CVM Instruction No. 358/02, Casino, Guichard-Perrachon, a joint-stock company headquartered at 1, Esplanade de France - 42000 Saint-Etienne, France ("Casino"), Segisor, a company headquartered at 1, Esplanade de France, Saint-Etienne - 42000, Saint-Etienne, France, and enrolled with the Brazilian Corporate Taxpayer File (CNPJ/MF) under No.
05.710.423/0001-49 ("Segisor"), and Sudaco Participações Ltda., a limited liability company headquartered at Rua Libero Badaró, 293, 27º andar, cj. D, 70, São Paulo - SP, enrolled with the Brazilian Corporate Taxpayer File (CNPJ/MF) under No. 07.821.866/0001-02, and investment vehicles related to Casino (altogether the "Casino Group"), hereby inform CBD of the following:
(i) Casino Group entered into a Swap Agreement with Abilio dos Santos Diniz, its controlled companies and related parties ("AD Group"), by which the parties agreed to swap their shareholding in two steps: (a) the immediate exchange of 8,145,925 preferred shares issued by CBD by the same amount of common shares issued by Wilkes Participações S.A.
("Wilkes"); and (b) the exchange of 11,229,075 preferred shares of CBD by by the same
number of remaining common shares issued Wilkes will be implemented when the
Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica approves the shares swap.
(ii) By the end of the transaction, Casino Group, jointly with its controlling shareholder Rallye SA, will hold the totality of shares issued by Wilkes and will hold 4,887,819 preferred shares issued by CBD.
(iii) Casino Group does not hold debentures convertible into shares issued by CBD.
Sincerely,
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