BIC_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Administrative and management bodies

GONZALVE BICH

Executive Vice-President

Date of 1 st appointment Board of Directors of May 18, 2016 – effect: June 2, 2016 Expiration date October 2, 2018 Professional address SOCIÉTÉ BIC 14 rue Jeanne d’Asnières 92110 Clichy – France

39 years old Nationality: French/American

Main position Executive Vice-President of SOCIÉTÉ BIC – Chief Operating Officer of BIC Group • Other current mandates or functions Director – BIC (Nantong) Plastic Products Co. Ltd. (a)  – China •

Number of BIC shares held: Holds BIC shares directly and indirectly through the family holding, SOCIÉTÉ M.B.D. On December 31, 2017, SOCIÉTÉ M.B.D. held 12,705,000 shares, i.e. 27.25% of SOCIÉTÉ BIC share capital and 37.23% of the voting rights

Director – BIC Cello (India) Private Ltd. (a)  – India • Director – BIC-Cello Exports Private Ltd. (a)  – India • Director – BIC UK Ltd. (a)  – United Kingdom • President of categories – BIC International Co. (a)  – U.S.A. • Expired mandates or functions in the previous five years (non-BIC Group companies) None Biography Gonzalve Bich is Chief Operating Officer (COO), responsible for the BIC Group Consumer Products business, Human Resources and Information Technology since January 2017. He currently serves as Executive Vice-President of SOCIÉTÉ BIC and has done so since June 2016. Gonzalve Bich joined BIC Asia in 2003, where he developed the regional business for four years. He moved on to serve as Group People Development Director before joining the Shaver category as Group Shaver Marketing Director. From 2008 to 2012, he led the Northern European business. In 2012, he was named Deputy General Manager, responsible for Middle East, Africa, Oceania and Asia Pacific. He was promoted to General Manager, Developing Markets (including Latin America) in July 2013 and took the responsibility for BIC Consumer business Categories operations in spring 2016, while leading the completion of the acquisition of Cello Pens (India’s #1 stationery brand). Gonzalve Bich holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Harvard University.

(a) BIC Group.

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