L'Oréal - 2018 Registration Document

L’Oréal’s corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility INTRODUCTION

RELATIONSHIPS MAINTAINED

SOME INITIATIVES IN 2018

Brandstorm, an international student competition, brings s together more than 30,000 students from 65 different countries; L’Oréal awards several scholarships every year to students from s partner schools in order to support the academic path of students who share the Group’s values of innovation, entrepreneurship and diversity; L’Oréal provides financial support for various academic chairs, s like the Marketing Chair at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, the Entrepreneurship Chair at the HEC business school and the Leadership and Diversity Chair at the ESSEC business school in France, the Masters and Chair in Business Law and Ethics at the University of Cergy-Pontoise and the Marketing, Innovation & Creativity Chair at INSEAD; L’Oréal is also a long-standing partner of CEMS, an alliance of s more than 30 business schools worldwide, including Bocconi University, LSE, Stockholm School of Economics, ESADE, Tsinghua University School of Economics, etc. CDP, an independent international NGO that assesses s the efforts made by companies to measure, report and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, gave L’Oréal a triple “A”, the top score, for each of the ratings on key issues: the fight against climate change, sustainable water management and the protection of forests. Only two companies in the world obtained this triple “A” score in 2018; L’Oréal was recognised for the 9 th time as one of the s World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. The Group’s good performances mean that it is regularly included in the indices requiring the highest standards: extra-financial rating agency Ethibel’s Sustainability s Index in its Excellence Global and Excellence Europe indices; the Euronext-Vigeo Eiris indices which highlight the top s performing companies in the areas of the environment, corporate social responsibility and governance.

L’Oréal is recognised as one of the most attractive companies for students. The Group has unique know-how in working on campus, allowing it to play a central role in meeting the expectations and needs of students around the world.

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Efforts that have been recognised and rewarded

In 2018, L’Oréal ranked No. 1 worldwide in the Covalence EthicalQuote ethical reputation index. Covalence EthicalQuote ranks the world’s 581 largest public companies, reflecting the perceptions of stakeholders, the media and corporate communications on their environmental, social, governance and Human Rights issues. L’Oréal was also named one of the 34 LEAD companies of the United Nations Global Compact, reserved for the most advanced companies in terms of responsible business conduct and those that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As in previous years, L’Oréal was also acclaimed by the most demanding organisations in this field in 2018, and in particular: the extra-financial rating agency Vigeo Eiris ranked the s Group No. 1 in all sectors; for the seventh consecutive year, extra-financial rating s agency ISS-Oekom gave L’Oréal Prime status, a rating awarded to the top-performing companies;

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