Waregem  (Belgium), 12 January 2010 - Pursuant to  the Belgian legislation of 2
May  2007 relating to the disclosure of major shareholdings in listed companies,
Arseus  reports that it  has received on  8 January 2010 a notification from KBC
Asset Management NV.

Basedon  the denominator of  31,195,121 (total number of  voting rights) and the
relevant notifications, the shareholder structure of Arseus is as follows:
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
|                                 | Number of shares | % of total |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
| EnHold NV                       |        7,830,000 |     25.10% |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
| Couckinvest NV/Coucke           |        3,528,080 |     11.31% |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
| Fortis Investment Management SA |        2,756,357 |      8.84% |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
| KBC Asset Management NV         |          939,462 |      3.01% |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
| Arseus NV (treasury shares)     |          973,915 |      3.12% |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
| Public                          |       15,167,307 |     48.62% |
+---------------------------------+------------------+------------+
The original notifications are also available on the corporate website of Arseus
(www.arseus.com).


In  case of  any discrepancy  between the  English translation  and the original
Dutch version of this press release, the latter shall prevail.
Please    open    the    link    below    for    the    full    press   release:


[HUG#1372857]





    Disclosure of received notification: http://hugin.info/138311/R/1372857/336284.pdf