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L'Oréal’s corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility* L’ORÉAL’S CORPORATE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL POLICIES

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L’Oréal is a member of many associations all over the world, including: Cosmetics Europe, AIM (European Brands Association), WFA (World Federation of Advertisers), the US Cosmetics Industry Association, CAFFCI (China Association of Fragrance Flavour and Cosmetic Industries), ISTMA (Indian Soap and Toiletries Mfrs Association), CTPA (Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association), etc. Organisation of Business Contests in 2017, more than 25,000 students s from all over the world registered for the Brandstorm competition; Support for various chairs, like the marketing chair at the Saïd Business s School, Oxford University, the Entrepreneurship chair at the HEC business school and the Leadership and Diversity Chair at the ESSEC business school in France, or the Marketing – Innovation & Creativity chair at INSEAD. L’Oréal also partners with CEMS, an alliance of more than 30 business schools worldwide: Bocconi University, LSE, Stockholm School of Economics, ESADE, Tsinghua University School of Economics, etc. As part of its Beauty for a Better Life programme, in partnership with local NGOs, the L’Oréal Foundation trains women in very difficult social or economic situations about the beauty industry (hairdressing and make-up), in order to help them to find employment. In France, it also offers free beauty care and well-being treatments, privately and in hospital settings, particularly for female cancer patients. These treatments are provided by socio-beauticians who are specially trained to help these women on the path to recovery. To fight against the under-representation of women in the scientific world, the L’Oréal Foundation created the L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science ( For Women in Science ) in 1998. This international programme is born of one conviction: the world needs science, and science needs women. It is for this reason that the programme identifies, rewards, encourages and showcases each year women from all continents who, through their discoveries, contribute to advancing knowledge. “L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science”: a commitment maintained for almost 20 years

At local, national or international level, L’Oréal maintains close relationships with the public authorities in particular via professional associations.

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Students and young graduates

L’Oréal has been identified as one of the most attractive companies for students.

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L’Oréal Group fully engaged in 3.1.4.2. philanthropic initiatives through its Foundation Since 2007, the L’Oréal Foundation's initiatives have been focusing on science and beauty, L’Oréal Group's passion and fields of expertise. Under the chairmanship of L’Oréal’s Chairman and CEO, Jean-Paul Agon, the L’Oréal Foundation’s Board of Directors membership includes individuals from the Group and from outside the Company, chosen for their expertise in the fields of Science and Philanthropic Beauty. With its For Women in Science initiative in partnership with UNESCO, the L’Oréal Foundation encourages women researchers all over the world and recognises excellence in an area where women are still not sufficiently represented. The L’Oréal Foundation is going further with the For Girls in Science programme, whose aim is to encourage young girls to pursue scientific career paths at school.

2,800 women in science from over 115 countries who have received awards and been rewarded since 1998.

Each year the L’Oréal Foundation celebrates and promotes five eminent female researchers, one from each of the five continents, whose work exerts an international influence and who are selected on the basis of their world-changing discoveries. Since 1998, 97 prize-winners have been honoured for the excellence of their scientific work, including professors Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ada Yonath and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard who received Nobel Prizes.

Every year, the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation also supports 275 young women scientists who will conduct tomorrow's science by helping them during their thesis or post-doctoral studies, a pivotal moment. A L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science grant is awarded to them at national and regional ceremonies in more than 48 countries. Since 2001, from over 9,000 applications, more than 2,700 young female scientists from 115 countries have been supported by a grant from the L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO.

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