As of September 2021, Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Immobilier, Colas, TF1, Bouygues Telecom and Bouygues SA will deploy communication actions aimed at raising awareness of disability among the Group's employees. Through corporate speaking, six champions with an exceptional career will contribute, each in their own way, to changing employees' perception of visible and non-visible disability.

These disabled sports ambassadors embody, through their personality and their background, the impetus and ambition that the Bouygues group intends to give to its Disability policy. An internal approach, called Starting B. (pronounced 'Starting Bi'), makes it possible to structure the various actions carried out on this strategic theme by the Bouygues group's HR sector.

For Jean-Manuel Soussan, Deputy CEO of the Group, Director of Human Resources: 'This meeting with the world of disabled sport offers us the opportunity to talk about disability without taboos by relying on the qualities and values of these great athletes. Starting B. is the impetus for ever more inclusion in the Group.

The six disabled sports champions are:

Claire Supiot, para swimming (partner: Bouygues SA)

Nantenin Keita, para athletics (partner: Bouygues Construction)

Typhaine Solde, para athletics (Bouygues Immobilier)

Gwladys Lemoussu, para triathlon (partner: Colas)

Yvan Wouandji, blind football (partner: TF1)

Tresor Gautier Makunda, para athletics (partner: Bouygues Telecom)

Internal communication actions involve posters, reports and interviews with athletes in publications. A social media campaign began on 15 September to publicize the Group's approach even beyond its borders.

Ultimately, these information and animation actions will help to highlight the Group's and its businesses' welcoming disability policy, whose objectives include: the recruitment and reception of people with disabilities; awareness raising and communication to encourage employees to change their view of disability; and professional development and job retention when the disability occurs during the course of a career.

1,900 Bouygues employees have disabilities

In France, at the end of 2020, the Bouygues group had more than 1,900 employees with disabilities. Some are also high-level athletes such as Alexis Hanquinquant, three-time para triathlon world champion and gold medallist in Tokyo, Assistant Preventer Health and Safety at Bouygues Btiment Grand Ouest.

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