SOMFY // 2022 Annual Report

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SHARING BEST PRACTICES

SOMFY also promotes the sharing of best practices from the Group supply risk. The Purchasing Department shared the actions and its suppliers. For example, an energy survey was launched with undertaken by SOMFY, encouraging suppliers to follow suit. Half of the Group’s 80 leading suppliers. The objective was to identify the them responded. actions implemented to safeguard the company against the energy

DEVELOPING LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS

SHARING THE VALUE CREATED WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS —

This civic commitment is also supported by the SOMFY Foundation, which received €400,000 in funding in 2022. This funding has enabled various initiatives such as: – support for Les Petites Pierres endowment fund which, in 2022, carried out 54 projects to combat poor housing, enabling €890,000 in funding to be provided to associations, half of which was provided through crowd funding ( i.e. 10 fewer projects than in 2021); – support for the “Ma Chance Moi Aussi” association which assists primary school pupils in the underprivileged neighbourhoods of Annemasse near the Group’s head office; – support for the NGO “Habitat for Humanity” for initiatives carried out in Romania, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Asia-Pacific, as well as for donations to Ukraine; – support for the association “Sport dans la Ville” for its upport of young people from the underprivileged neighbourhoods. Subsidiaries also took action in their local ecosystems to support educational and inclusion projects: – in the Czech Republic, donations were made to associations helping people with disabilities and children in need or caring for the elderly; – in Poland, donations of products and computers were made to local associations; – in Germany, the subsidiary made a financial donation and a commitment to the Tubingen hospice near the subsidiary together with its employees; – financial and product donations were also made in the United States, Sweden and Australia. –in France, on several occasions the French subsidiary accompanied its advertising campaigns with incentive mechanisms for micro-donations dedicated to initiatives to combat poor housing. The Group’s subsidiaries contributed more than €75,000 to associations working in the public interest. Collections and donations were also made to help people in Ukraine.

SOMFY is committed to fulfilling its role as a corporate citizen by striving to share the benefits of its growth with the local ecosystem through its interactions with local stakeholders. For this purpose, the Group promotes inclusion and equal opportunities, contributes to development through sport, and is involved in the fight for decent and healthy homes. Focus on SOMFY ACTIVITÉS SA In line with its values and its sustainable development policy, the company works for the common good through its participation in the Club “Les Entreprises s’engagent” of Haute-Savoie, which implements initiatives to: –promote social and professional integration in its employment areas; –combat discrimination and exclusion, in particular in relation to access to employment and education. On this last challenge, it also supports several local actors, including: – the Campus des Métiers, the FORMA association, the Chambre Syndicale de la Métallurgie Haute-Savoie and the Collège Geneviève Anthonioz de Gaulle to promote professions to young people and people who struggle to integrate into the workforce; –the association “Orchestre à l’École” which combats exclusion and promotes development through classical music in the primary schools of Bois-Jolivet in Bonneville and Laurent Molliex in Cluses; – various initiatives to support local sports clubs. In addition, a hundred or so secondary school students were invited to the Group’s head office to receive career guidance, and 260 girls from the Lycée Charles Poncet in Cluses took part in a day organised by female employees to promote women in technical professions. Recognised as an inclusive company concerned with the integration of all, the company has committed itself within the framework of the disability agreement to reach at least 15 contracts by 2025 enabling the support of vulnerable people or those who struggle to integrate into the workforce and beneficiaries of the obligation to employ disabled people: PMSMP, springboard contract, assisted contract, etc.

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SOMFY – ANNUAL REPORT 2022

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