Amsterdam : Further to its announcement of 19 September 2012, Heineken N.V. (“HEINEKEN”) today announced that yesterday Heineken International B.V. completed the purchase of 22,207,130 shares in Asia Pacific Breweries Limited (“APB”) held by Kindest Place Groups Limited (representing 8.6% of the total issued share capital of APB) at a price of S$53.00 per APB share.

Directors’ Responsibility Statement

The directors of HEINEKEN (including any director who may have delegated detailed supervision of this announcement) have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the facts stated and all opinions expressed in this announcement are fair and accurate and that there are no other material facts not contained in this announcement, the omission of which would make any statement in this announcement misleading.

Where any information has been extracted or reproduced from published or otherwise publicly available sources, or obtained from F&N, the sole responsibility of the directors of HEINEKEN has been to ensure through reasonable enquiries that such information is accurately extracted from such sources or, as the case may be, reflected or reproduced in this announcement.

The directors of HEINEKEN jointly and severally accept responsibility accordingly.