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LOBLAW COMPANIES LIMITED ANNOUNCES THE TIMING OF THE FIRST QUARTER 2024 EARNINGS RELEASE AND ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

Loblaw Companies Ltd. will release its first quarter 2024 results on May 1, 2024, at approximately 6:30 a.m. ET. The release will be followed by a conference call at 10 a.m. ET, as well as an audio webcast.

To access Loblaw's first-quarter conference call, please dial 416-764-8688 or 888-390-0546. The playback will be made available approximately two hours after the event at 416-764-8677 or 888-390-0541 (access code 725982 followed by the pound key). To access via audio webcast, please go to the company's website. Preregistration will be available.

This year, the Loblaw annual meeting of shareholders will be held on May 2, 2024, at 11 a.m. ET. The meeting will be held as a virtual meeting, by way of a live webcast. Shareholders will be able to listen, participate and vote at the meeting in real time. To access the audio conference, please dial 1-855-381-6466 (English) or 1-855-980-0134 (French). The audio playback will be made available after the event at 647-483-1416 or 877-454-9859 (access code 4868826). For additional details on how to join, attend or vote at the annual meeting of shareholders, please visit the company's website.

About Loblaw Companies Ltd.

Loblaw is Canada's food and pharmacy leader, and the nation's largest retailer. Loblaw provides Canadians with grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, apparel, general merchandise, financial services, and wireless mobile products and services. With more than 2,500 corporate-franchised and associate-owned locations, Loblaw, its franchisees and associate owners employ more than 220,000 full-time and part-time employees, making it one of Canada's largest private-sector employers.

Loblaw's purpose -- Live Life Well -- puts first the needs and well-being of Canadians who make one billion transactions annually in the company's stores. Loblaw is positioned to meet and exceed those needs in many ways: convenient locations; more than 1,100 grocery stores that span the value spectrum from discount to specialty; full-service pharmacies at nearly 1,400 Shoppers Drug Mart and Pharmaprix locations and close to 500 Loblaw locations; PC Financial services; Joe Fresh fashion and family apparel; and four of Canada's top consumer brands in Life Brand, Farmer's Market, no name and President's Choice.