REGULATED INFORMATION – Disclosure on a transparency notification (Article 14(1) of the Law of 2 May 2007 on disclosure of major shareholdings)

Leuven, Belgium – 5 January 2026 – 6:00 PM CET, Crescent NV, Geldenaaksebaan 329, 3001 Heverlee (Euronext Brussels: OPTI) – CRESCENT NV, renamed to “OPTION” NV, (EURONEXT: OPTI), has received on 31 December 2025 a transparency notification from VAN ZELE HOLDING NV, indicating that the 35% participation threshold had been exceeded. The relevant details of this transparency notification are as follows:

1/ VAN ZELE HOLDING NV

Reason for notification:
Acquisition or transfer of voting securities or voting rights.

Notification by:
A parent company or a controlling person.

Person subject to notification:
VAN ZELE HOLDING NV, 1880 KAPELLE-OP-DEN-BOS, Ipsvoordestraat 61
Eric VAN ZELE

Date of threshold crossing:
30/12/2025

Threshold exceeded:
As a result, the threshold of 35% was exceeded.

Denominator: Total number of shares:
2.534.641.145

Detail of notification:

Complete chain of controlled companies through which the shareholding is actually held:
Eric VAN ZELE controls VAN ZELE HOLDING NV.

Additional information: VZH invokes the exemption provided for in Article 52, § 1, 4°, of the takeover decree of 27 April 2007, as a result of which VZH is not obliged to make a mandatory bid for all securities issued by the target company, despite exceeding the threshold. This is an exception in the context of a subscription to a capital increase of a company in difficulty, as referred to in Article 7:228 of the Companies and Associations Code, and decided upon by the general shareholders meeting of the Company dd.30.05.2025.

More details are available on Company’s website: https://option.com/.

In accordance with the Articles of Association, the threshold from which a holding must be disclosed was set at 3%.

CONTACT

Edwin Bex
Geldenaaksebaan 329
B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
TEL: +32 (0) 16 31 74 11
E-mail: investor@option.com
www.option.com