In Spain, our Arias subsidiary has conducted a deliberate policy of integration of handicapped persons for the past ten years. It has signed agreements with dedicated organizations and foundations and proposes training and jobs 10 in 2016 adapted to the capacities of each employee. Arias also purchases from organizations employing handicapped persons. The company s commitment has been

rewarded by several certifications and distinctions. In Brazil, Polenghi has boosted its efforts with 51 handicapped persons employed compared with 38 in 2015. In France, our policy of socially inclusive procurement has led to new contracts including one involving Messageries Laitières which has conferred the repair of 500 pallets per month to a local sheltered workshop.

ARIAS AND HANDICAPS: TEN YEARS COMMITMENT

BETTER FOOD FOR MANKIND

The Group s endowment fund encourages and supports employees committed to socially inclusive initiatives in France and worldwide. It supports the projects of associations echoing our vocation of Leading the way to better food . Among the projects supported in 2016: our Classes du goût in France to help children adopt balanced and varied diets, an outreach grocery in Lyon, the construction of a well in Niger, training in the manufacture of cheese as a means of conserving milk in Madagascar and the creation of a fruit and vegetable garden at an orphanage in Vietnam.

SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE VACATION In 2016, Groupe Savencia signed an agreement enabling those French employees who so desire to perform an outreach mission during their annual vacation. Laurent, for example, joined a school for 400 children in Zambia and deployed an

accounting database. And Nathalie helped 12 children learn French in a Benin village with neither water nor electricity.

COMMITTED AND SOLIDARY

ENTREPRENEURS TOGETHER

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