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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 3.1 SoLocal Group, a company responding to the digital transformation

A site dedicated to the financial restructuring was developed l to help illustrate the financial restructuring process. The Shareholder Advisory Committee (created in March 2016) l met in June and again in November. A letter was sent to the individual shareholders in September l by the Group’s new management to introduce themselves. The “Shareholders” information area of the SoLocal l Group.com corporate website has been enhanced and it is possible to register to directly receive the Group’s important publications. Lastly, an open house was held in November at SoLocal’s l head office for shareholders who wanted to meet management (CEO and Chairman) and discover the Group’s activities and its teams. Exchanges with institutional investors: l in each quarterly financial communication, a webcast with a l question and answer session is proposed to them; roadshows/breakfasts were organised post-publications in l France and abroad (London, Frankfurt); individual meetings and conference calls are organised l throughout the year with investors who wish to deepen exchanges with SoLocal.

and even explore new horizons, the CSR department initiated this analysis in April 2017.

Diversity and training 40 points of contact were consulted, 24 for internal and 16 representatives of external stakeholders (advertizer, user, public authority, professional federation, journalist, NGO, etc.). Prior to the direct exchanges, a digital platform had been developed and made available to them to build training, in particular with people who were not familiar with these topics. They were offered details on each issue they had to evaluate, additional information on the concept of risk, the legislative environment, societal changes, etc. The platform made it possible to ask questions and proposed a pre-vote, to become familiar with the ranking of the issues presented, even if only the votes from the meetings counted for the analysis. Richness of discussions and principle of reality 150 hours of dialogue took place during 6 consultation sessions (2 plenary sessions, 1 mini-group, 3 interviews), to identify relevant CSR priorities for our stakeholders. The combination of these results with the expression of major risks from the Group’s Audit department led to the Group’s “Materiality Matrix”, which ranks its issues according to 3 levels of importance: “major”, “significant”, and “emerging”. This matrix was presented to the Group’s new management to supplement its analysis on the financial and extra-financial strategy. Recognition of the profession This process of listening and dialogue with stakeholders was awarded the Bronze Award (Corporate category) by the Board of the 5th edition of Nuit de la RSE (Night of CSR) in November 2017. processing of extra-financial information, which enables reliable collection and makes it possible to comment on and trace their consolidation. The scope of the other indicators is indicated in the Note on methodology attached as an appendix. Reporting guidelines explaining the scope and CSR indicators published in this Reference Document are available in the appendix of this chapter. Since 2016, the De Saint Front firm has been designated the Independent Third Party Organisation to conduct the audit of the CSR information in application of the provisions of the Grenelle 2 Act. This auditor has prepared the report shown in an appendix to this chapter. It comprises certification that the required HR, environmental and societal information has been reported as well as the auditor’s opinion on this information.

SPECIFIC DIALOGUE ASSOCIATED WITH THE “MATERIALITY ANALYSIS” OF THE CSR ISSUES

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A “materiality analysis” aims to prioritise topics based on their impact on the Company’s performance but also with regard to the significance of the issues for its stakeholders. Convinced that it offers companies and their executives the opportunity to improve

REPORTING 3.1.3

The implementation decree of the Grenelle 2 Act requires certain companies to annually report information on various topics in relation to human resources, the environment and society. To comply with the requirements of this decree, in 2012 SoLocal Group began its publications of extra-financial information in its Reference Document. To inform and promote communication with our stakeholders, this CSR report presents all actions and initiatives in connection with our corporate responsibility commitments. The scopes of the reported employer, environmental and societal responsibility indicators vary each year and may also vary between indicators. The social indicators relate to the scope of the SoLocal Group and PagesJaunes. The quantitative and qualitative CSR data is collected for this report via the Reporting 21 tool, a platform for the collection and

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