BIC_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY The BIC Sustainable Development Program

2.1.5. Sharing value with our stakeholders 2.1.5.1. Challenges and approach ♦

INTERACTION WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS

BIC Group economic, financial and extra-financial performances have an impact on its stakeholders worldwide, including employees, customers, consumers, suppliers, public authorities and communities. The Group develops strategic methods for creating and sharing the value it generates – choices that enable it to cultivate the Company’s goals and responsibly pave the way for the future. Performance ♦

DISTRIBUTION TO STAKEHOLDERS IN 2017*

CUSTOMER D TURNOVER: 2,020.3 MILLION EUROS

Employees 524.6 million euros. Corresponding to payroll, bonuses and profit-sharing payments to employees.

Suppliers 1,010.4 million euros.

Shareholders 161.0 million euros in ordinary dividends and 97.1 million euros for the repurchase of shares.

Banks 6.1 million euros in net interest received.

Governments 115.6 million euros, including 97.3 million euros paid around the world as corporate income tax and 18.3 million euros in other taxes.

Net investments 172.7 million euros, including 175.3 million euros for the acquisition of tangible and intangible fixed assets and 2.6 million euros received from the disposal of fixed assets.

Communities 1.8 million euros in donations of funds and products to local communities (internal valuation).

Corresponding to purchases of raw materials, consumables and

bought-in services.

The distribution of revenues to stakeholders does not include the change in net current working capital and is restated for discontinued operations. *

Responsible Communication 2.1.5.2.

make responsible use of its stakeholders’ personal data, in ● compliance with the regulations; include environmental and social impacts in the criteria that ● determine its communication choices. It also defines communication actions to help build a more responsible world. Special representatives were designated to facilitate the deployment of the charter and gather best practices. Since 2013, as a signatory of the Advertisers’ Charter of Commitment to Responsible Communication of the Union Des Annonceurs (UDA, French advertisers’ union), BIC submits to the UDA an annual summary of its actions undertaken to promote responsible communication.

Challenges ♦ BIC seeks to engage in controlled, responsible communication operations that will allow the Group to retain the confidence of its stakeholders. Approach ♦ Defined in 2013, the Responsible Communication Charter formalizes BIC Group’s integration of the Value of Responsibility in its communication. This Charter expresses BIC’s intention to share reliable information and release clear, accurate messages; it applies to all communication undertaken by the Group around the world towards all its stakeholders. To ensure accuracy in the Group’s communication, this Charter comprises three principles by which BIC pledges to: implement the necessary means, in terms of organization, ● processes and tools, for verifying all communications issued by the Group;

100% of the environmental claims that D appear on the packaging, in the catalogs and on the websites for BIC ® products are approved by the Legal Department

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BIC GROUP - 2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT