NOTICE TO THE MARKET

INFORMATION ON THE NEWS PUBLISHED BY THE BRAZILIAN MAGAZINE REVISTA
ÉPOCA, APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN MEETING HELD ON APRIL 19, 2015

São Paulo, April 19^th, 2015 – Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição – CBD, in view of the news published by the edition 880 of the Brazilian magazine Revista Época, regarding payments allegedly made by Grupo Pão de Açúcar, in 2010, to the law firm of Márcio Thomaz Bastos, hereby informs the following:

(I) by the time of the news release the Board of Directors had no information on the existence of the payments mentioned therein, which would have happened before the acquisition of the Company‘s control by Casino, occurred in July, 2012;

(II) As a result, the Board of Directors met on the date hereof and unanimously resolved to request the Audit Committee to initiate an investigation on (i) the supposed existence and the origin of the payments; should the payments have existed, (ii) the corresponding services related thereto; and (iii) the chain of approvals regarding such payments.

Once the analysis of the facts is finished, Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição will again inform the market, and if it is the case, the relevant authorities.