BIC_Registration_Document_2017

Chairman's message Profile and Strategy Profile 2017

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CONTENTS

GROUP PRESENTATION

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 5.1. Consolidated financial statements 164 5.2. Statutory Auditors’ Report on the consolidated financial statements 225 5.3. Parent company financial statements of SOCIÉTÉ BIC (French GAAP) 229 5.4. Statutory Auditors’ Report on the financial statements 248 5.5. Statutory Auditors’ Special Report on regulated agreements and commitments 252 163

AFR

1.1. Key figures

10 14 16 21 22 24 30

1.2. History

1.3. Business presentation 1.4. Research and Innovation 1.5. Property, plant and equipment

AFR

1.6. Risk factors

AFR

1.7. Risk management and internal control procedures implemented by the Company

INFORMATION ON THE ISSUER 6.1. Information on the Company

253

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY 39 2.1. The BIC Sustainable Development Program 40 2.2. Responsibility concerning our products 53 2.3. Environmental responsibility concerning our operations 64 2.4. Our social responsibility to our employees 74 2.5. Our societal responsibility 87 2.6. Milestones 95

AFR

254 256 258 260 262 263

6.2. Share capital 6.3. Shareholding

AFR

AFR

6.4. Treasury shares and share buyback

AFR

6.5. Investor relations 6.6. Share information

BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ REPORT AND DRAFT RESOLUTIONS OF THE SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING OF MAY 16, 2018

265

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

103

AFR

3.1. Administrative and management bodies 3.2. Corporate Officers’ compensation

104 129

7.1. Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting 7.2. Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting

266 284 296 297

7.3. Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting

7.4. Statutory Auditors’ report

COMMENTS ON THE YEAR

149

AFR

4.1. Operations and consolidated results

150 157 158 159 160 162

4.2. Financial situation and cash

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 8.1. Documents on display 8.2. Main press releases 8.3. Person responsible 8.4. Statutory Auditors and fees

303

4.3. Management of currency and interest rate risks

304 305 306 307 308

4.4. Dividends 4.5. Investments

AFR

AFR

4.6. Prospects for 2018 and strategy

AFR

8.5. Cross reference table required under European Commission Regulation n°809/2004

AFR 8.6. Cross reference table with the Annual Financial Report 311 8.7. Cross reference table with the management report 312 8.8. Cross reference table for environmental and social indicators 313 8.9. Glossary 314

Elements of the Annual Financial Report are identified in the content using the symbol AFR Elements linked to the Corporate Social Responsibility are identified in the content using the symbol CSR