HERMÈS - 2018 Registration document

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Information on the Company and its share capital

Information on share capital and shareholders

s s the maximum purchase price (excluding costs) would be set at €700 per share; s s the maximum amount of funds to be committed would be set at €1,800 million. Treasury shares held on the day of the General Meeting are not taken into account in this maximum amount; s s pursuant to the law, the total number of shares held at a given date may not exceed 10% of the share capital as of that date; s s the shares may be purchased by any means, including all or part of interventions on regulated markets, multilateral trading systems, with systematic internalisers or OTC, including block purchases of securities (without limiting the portion of the buyback programme carried out by thismeans), by public offering to purchase or exchange or the use of options or derivatives (in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements applicable at the time), excluding the sale of put options, and at the time that the Executive Management deems appropriate, including during a public offering for the shares of the Company, in accordancewith stockmarket regulations, either directly or indirectly via an investment services provider. The shares acquired pursuant to this authorisationmay be retained, sold, or transferred by any means, including by block sales, and at any time, including during times of public offerings. Duration of the authorisation This authorisation would be valid for eighteen months from the date of the Combined General Meeting of 4 June 2019, i.e. until 4 December 2020.

Number of shares and percentage of share capital held by Hermès International Between 1 January and 28 February 2019, the Company purchased 26,594 shares and sold 27,894 shares within the framework of the liquidity contract. As of 28 February 2019, the share capital of the Company consisted of 105,569,412 shares, of which 1,321,079 treasury shares (number of shares as of the date of the operation) held by Hermès International, representing 1,3% of the share capital. Objectives of the new share buyback programme The shares may be repurchased in order to be allocated to the objec- tives permitted by regulation (EU) 596/2014 of 16 April 2014 onmarket abuse (MAR): s s objectives provided for in Article 5 of MAR: capital decrease, hedging of debt securities exchangeable for shares and coverage of employee shareholding plans; s s objectives provided for in Article 13 of MAR and under the market practice accepted by the AMF: the implementation of a liquidity contract by an investment service provider acting independently and in accordance with the provisions of AMF Decision No. 2018-01 of 2 July 2018; s s other objectives: acquisitions, hedging of equity securities exchan- geable for shares and, more generally, to allocate them for the com- pletionofanytransactions inaccordancewiththeregulations inforce. Ceilings and conditions of the authorisation s s Purchases and sales of shares representing up to 10% of the share capital would be authorised, i.e. for indicative purposes as of 31 December 2018: 10,556,941;

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2018 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL