PSA_GROUP_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

GROUPE PSA Activities and Strategy

After-Sales, Maintenance, Repair and Spare Parts In after-sales, the Push to Pass plan has materialised a sales offensive designed to satisfy all customers’ needs world-wide, regardless of their purchasing power, their vehicle’s brand or age. Under the plan, the Group has moved from an offer focused on original equipement parts for its automotive brands to a wraparound offer widened to the independent repairer market as a whole, covering the whole motor-vehicle fleet world-wide, with both the Eurorepar brand, and an entirely unprecedented offer of equipment-manufacturer parts. This offensive is carried by DISTRIGO, launched in 2016. In Europe, it is backed by a logistics network of 130 spare parts Distrigo hubs. A similar offer is being rolled out in Latin America, through joint ventures in Brazil and Argentina, and in China, particularly with the majority shareholding in the spare parts distributor Jian Xin. Groupe PSA also provides an Internet offer with the MisterAuto.com on-line parts sales website, established in 19 countries across the world, and Autobutler, a company generating estimates on-line for automotive servicing and repairs. As at 31 December 2017, 24 spare parts warehouses manage 275,000 SKUs for Peugeot, Citroën, DS: Vesoul (France), Natolin (Poland), Villaverde (Spain), Pregnana (Italy), Rieste (Germany), Spillern (Austria), Tile Hill (the United Kingdom), Barueri (Brazil), Pacheco (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Toluca (Mexico), Kaluga (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine), Boufarik (Algeria), Istanbul (Turkey), Johannesburg (South Africa), Shimizu (Japan), Wuhan (China-DPCA), Shanghai (China-DPCA), Beijing (China-DPCA), Chengdu (China-DPCA), Guangzhou (China-DPCA), Shanghai (China-CAPSA) and Shenzhen (China-CAPSA). For Opel Vauxhall, 10 Spare parts warehouses in Europe manage close upon 215,000 SKUs: Luton (United Kingdom), Saragossa (Spain), Gonesse (France), Fiumicino (Italy), Russelsheim and Bochum (Germany), Mszczonów (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Nykoping (Sweden) and Izmir (Turkey). The environmental issues that may influence the use of these assets by Groupe PSA are presented below in Chapter 2. The Faurecia Group (1) is one of the world leaders in automotive equipment. This company develops, manufactures and markets original equipment through three main business divisions (“Business Groups”): Seating, Interiors and Clean Mobility. In each of these three business lines, Faurecia is one of the top three global players. Faurecia is a company listed in compartment A of the Euronext Paris market (FR0000121147 EO). As at December 2017, Peugeot S.A. held 46.34% of Faurecia’s share capital and 63.09% of its theoretical voting rights. At 31 December 2017, the Faurecia Group employed almost 110,000 people in 35 countries over all the continents, and operated some 300 sites of which 30 research and development centres. FAURECIA 1.3.1.2.

The Faurecia Group earns its revenue primarily from product sales (deliveries of parts and components to car manufacturers). It also generates revenue from two other sources: The Faurecia Group sells monoliths, which are components used in catalytic converters for exhaust streams (classified under “Clean Mobility”). These monoliths are billed to the car manufacturers at production cost (pass-through basis) andintegrated in the exhaust streams by Faurecia under global contracts. The Faurecia Group also generates income from the sale of equipment, R&D and prototypes. In 2017, the Faurecia Group total revenue amounted to €20.2 billion, 7.9% increased from 2016, and its added-value sales (excluding monolith sales) came to €17.0 billion, rising 8.6% over 2016. In 2017 The Faurecia Group value-added sales broke down as follows: 50.1% in Europe, 26.4% in North America, 17.3% in Asia (of which 13.3% in China), 4.7% in South America and 1.5% in the rest of the world. For more information on Faurecia’s earnings, please refer to Section 4.1.6 and Note 4 to the 2017 consolidated financial statements (see Section 5.6 below). Three core businesses 1.3.1.2.1. Since the sale of its exterior parts business in 2016 (formerly “Automotive Exteriors”), Faurecia has refocused on three business lines (“Business Groups”) and this Group’s strategic priorities have become aligned with the underlying trends on the world automotive market. Accordingly, The Faurecia Group is accelerating its profitable growth by focusing its development and innovative efforts on two main areas: “Sustainable mobility”, through its “Clean Mobility” activity, „ which supports evolution of the automotive industry towards steadily less polling vehicles; and “Smart Life on Board”, through its two other activities, Seating „ and Interiors, which are developing innovative solutions and disruptive technology, aimed at creating the cockpit of the future in response to the industry trend towards driving that is more networked and takes more of the burden off the driver. Still in the aim of accelerating its profitable growth, Groupe Faurecia is also looking to rapid development of its sales in Asia, particularly China. The Faurecia group’s three Business Group include: Seating Faurecia designs and assembles seats and makes their main components, including frames, adjustment mechanisms, foams and upholstery, and comfort and safety accessories. Besides this core seat-architecture business line, adapting to the different car manufacturer platforms, Faurecia is developing innovative solutions for safety and comfort, on the strength of joint arrangements with key player in safety, such as ZF, or in heat and temperature management, such as Mahle. The “Seating” activity accounted for 42% of the Faurecia Group value-added sales in 2017.

For more information concerning Faurecia, please view the website, www.faurecia.com, and refer to Faurecia’s 2017 Registration Document, (1) also available on its website

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GROUPE PSA - 2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

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