August 17, 2017

To Whom It May Concern:

Company Name: Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc

Representative: Tamio Yoshimatsu,

Representative Director and President

(Ticker 2579, First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange and Fukuoka Stock Exchange)

Inquiry: Kenji Harada

Head of General Affairs Tel. (03) 6896-1709

Announcement of change of the largest shareholder among the major shareholders

We hereby announce that we confirmed today (August 17, 2017) that there will be a change of our largest shareholder among our major shareholders as follows.

  1. History of change

    Today (August 17, 2017), Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd. submitted a large shareholding report (change report) to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau, and we have confirmed that there will be a change of our largest shareholder among the major shareholders on September 7, 2017 or the day separately agreed by European Refreshments and Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd.

  2. Summary of changing shareholder

    (1)

    Name

    Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd.

    (2)

    Address

    4-6-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

    (3)

    Title and name of representative

    Representative Director & President Jorge Garduño

    (4)

    Businesses

    Manufacturing and selling soft drinks

    (5)

    Capital stock

    3.6 billion yen

    Number of voting rights

    (Number of shares

    owned)

    Ratio against the number of voting rights of all shareholders*

    Ranking among major shareholder

    Before

    (as of June 30, 2017)

    125,020 rights

    (12,502,015 shares)

    6.16%

    3rd place

    After

    279,561 rights

    (27,956,199 shares)

    13.76%

    1st place

  3. The number of voting rights owned by the said shareholder and the ratio of the owned voting rights before and after the change

    *The number of shares deducted from the total number of shares issued, as shares without voting rights 3,169,593 shares

    Total number of shares issued as of June 30, 2017 206,268,593 shares

  4. Future prospects

This matter is based on the submission of the large shareholding report (change report), and there is nothing special to be noted with respect to the future prospects.

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