L'Oréal - 2018 Registration Document

6 Stock Market Information Share capital INFORMATION RELATING TO THE COMPANY

L’Oréal is a French société anonyme (limited company) listed in Paris. This chapter sets out the information relating to its share capital and the main details of its legal form and its Articles of Association. All the information on the L’Oréal share and L’Oréal share market are also included in this chapter.

INFORMATION RELATING TOTHECOMPANY 6.1.

LEGAL FORM 6.1.1. L’Oréal is incorporated in France as a société anonyme .

PURPOSE OF THE COMPANY 6.1.5.

(EXTRACTS FROM ARTICLE 2 OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION)

The Company’s corporate purpose, both in France and/or at any other location anywhere throughout the entire world, shall be as follows: the manufacturing and the sale of cosmetics products s in general; of all devices intended for the same uses as the products listed above; of all household maintenance products; of all products and articles relating to feminine and/or child hygiene and to the embellishment of human beings; the demonstration and advertising of such products; the manufacturing of packaging articles; the filing and acquisition of all patents, licenses, s processes and manufacturing trademarks, their exploitation, their assignment and/or their contribution; all diversification transactions and all commercial, financial, s movable property and/or real property transactions, made in the Company’s interest, under any form whatsoever; the direct or indirect involvement in all transactions such as s those listed above, in particular by means of the creation of companies, the contribution to pre-existing companies, the merger or the alliance with such companies. COMPANY REGISTRATION 6.1.6. NUMBER 632 012 100 Paris Trade and Companies Registry. Code LEI (Legal Entity Identifier): 529900JI1GG6F7RKVI53.

LAW GOVERNING THE ISSUER 6.1.2. French law.

BUSINESS ACTIVITY 6.1.3. L’Oréal S.A. is a French company, with its head office in France. It performs a sales activity that is specific to France. At the same time, L’Oréal S.A. also acts as the holding company and provides strategic, industrial and scientific coordination and marketing for the L’Oréal Group throughout the world. The subsidiaries operate the Group’s business activities in the country or region in which they are located. In this role, they manufacture or commission and commercialise the products they decide to sell on their market. L’Oréal Group wholly owns the vast majority of its subsidiaries. It also has investments, details of which are set out in the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements. DATE OF INCORPORATION 6.1.4. AND TERM OF THE COMPANY (ARTICLE 5 OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION) “The Company’s term shall be ninety-nine years, which began to run on 1 January 1963 and which shall thus expire on 31 December 2061, except in the event of early dissolution or of extension, as provided for in these Articles of Association.”

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