UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

AS OF JUNE 30, 2021

including the Annual Financial Report

2020-2021

CONTENTS

Chairman's message

2

Key figures

3

Profile

4

Strategy

6

The business portfolio

8

1

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

11

AND FY 2021-2022 OUTLOOK

1.1

Presentation of Claranova

12

1.2

Annual business highlights

20

1.3

Consolidated operating and financial

review at June 30, 2021

21

1.4

Consolidated statement of cash flows

27

1.5

Financing structure and financial

security

28

1.6

Trends and FY 2021-2022 outlook

29

2

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL

31

STATEMENTS

2.1

Statement of comprehensive income

32

2.2

Statement of financial position

33

2.3

Consolidated statement of cash flows

34

2.4

Statement of changes in consolidated

equity

35

2.5

Notes to the consolidated financial

statements

36

2.6

Statutory Auditors' report on the

consolidated financial statements

81

3

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

85

3.1

Governance bodies

87

3.2

Internal control measures

98

3.3

Compensation policy for corporate

officers for FY 2021-2022 and the report

on compensation of corporate officers

with respect to FY 2020-2021

100

3.4

Additional corporate governance

information

115

3.5

Related-party transactions

121

4

RISK FACTORS

125

4.1

Business-related risks

126

4.2

Financial and market risks

129

4.3

Insurance

129

5

INFORMATION ON THE

COMPANY AND ITS SHARE

CAPITAL

131

5.1

Information on the Company

132

5.2

Articles of Association

132

5.3

Share capital

134

5.4

Major shareholders

137

5.5

Dividend policy

139

5.6 Items likely to have an impact

in the event of a public offer

139

5.7 Market for the security

139

6 GROUP CORPORATE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

RESPONSIBILITY141

6.1

Our responsibility

142

6.2

Being a responsible employer

145

6.3

Having a positive social impact

151

6.4

Limit our environmental footprint

153

6.5

Methodology

155

6.6

Report of the independent third-party

on the consolidated non-financial

performance statement

156

7

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

159

7.1

Persons responsible for the original

French language version of the

Universal Registration Document

160

7.2

Persons responsible for auditing

the financial statements

161

7.3

Statutory Auditor fees

161

7.4

Auditors who resigned or were

dismissed during the period covered

by the historical financial information

162

7.5

Material contracts

162

7.6

Documents available to the public

162

8

ANNUAL FINANCIAL

165

STATEMENTS

8.1

Income statement for the year ended

June 30, 2021

166

8.2

Balance sheet assets as of June 30, 2021

167

8.3

Balance sheet equity and liabilities

as of June 30, 2021

168

8.4

Notes to the annual financial

statements

169

8.5

Statutory Auditors' report on the annual

financial statements

188

8.6

Five-year financial summary

192

CONCORDANCE TABLES

193

Table of concordance with FY 2020-2021

Universal Registration Document (URD)

194

Table of concordance with the management

report

198

Table of concordance with the report

on corporate governance

200

Table of concordance with the annual

financial report

202

GLOSSARY

203

UNIVERSAL

REGISTRATION

DOCUMENT

AS OF JUNE 20, 2021

including the Annual Financial Report

FY 2020-2021

The original French version of this Universal Registration Document was filed on October 20, 2021 with the AMF (Autorité des Marché Financiers), the French financial market regulator, as the competent authority under regulation (UE) 2017/1129, without prior approval pursuant to Article 9 of said regulation.

The original French version of this document may be used for the purposes of an offer to the public of securities or admission of securities to trading on a regulated market if it is supplemented by a securities note and, if applicable, a summary together with any amendments to the Universal Registration Document. It has thus been approved in its entirety by the AMF in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1129.

Pursuant to Regulation (EU) no. 2017/1129, the following information is incorporated by reference in the Universal Registration Document:

  • the Claranova Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal year 2019-2020, prepared in accordance with IFRS, and the Group Auditors' report thereon, presented in Sections 2.1 to 2.6 of the Universal Registration Document filed with the AMF on October 21, 2020 (D. 20-0890);
  • the Claranova Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal year 2018-2019, prepared in accordance with IFRS, and the Group Auditors' report thereon, presented in Sections 2.1 to 2.6 of the Universal Registration Document filed with the AMF on October 21, 2019 (D. 19-0905).

Copies of this Document are available free of charge from Claranova (89-91, boulevard National, 92257 La Garenne-Colombes Cedex, France) and on its website (http://www.claranova.com), as well as on the AMF's website (http://www.amf-france.org).

In this Document, the term "Group" refers to Claranova and its subsidiaries, while the terms "Claranova" and the "Company" refer to Claranova as an entity.

This Document contains information about the Company's objectives and development strategy. Such information may be identified by the use of the future and conditional tenses and by forward-looking terms such as "consider", "envisage", "think", "target", "expect", "intend", "should", "aim", "estimate", "believe", "wish" and "may" or, in certain cases, the negative form of these terms, or similar expressions.

The reader's attention is drawn to the fact that these objectives and development strategy depend on circumstances and events which may or may not occur.

These objectives and development strategy are not historical data and should not be considered to give any assurance that the stated events and data will occur, the assumptions confirmed, or the objectives attained. By their nature, these objectives may not be achieved and the statements and information presented in this Document may prove incorrect, without the Company being required in any way to provide an update, subject to applicable regulations and, particularly, the AMF General Regulations.

This Document also contains information about the Company's business and the market and industry in which it operates. This information notably stems from studies conducted by internal and external sources (analysts' reports, specialized studies, sector publications, and any other information published by market research firms, companies and government agencies). The Company considers that this information presents a true and fair view of the market and industry in which it operates and accurately reflects its competitive position. However, while this information is considered reliable, it has not been independently verified by the Company.

This document is a free translation of the original "document d'enregistrement universel." or universal registration document issued in French for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 filed with the AMF on October 20, 2021. As such, the English version has not been registered by this Authority. The English version of this document has not been audited by our Statutory Auditors and the English translations of their reports included herein are provided for information only. In the event of any ambiguity or conflict between corresponding statements or other items contained in these documents and the original French version, the relevant statement or item of the French version shall prevail and only the original version of the document in French is legally binding. As such, this translation may not be relied upon to sustain any legal claim, nor be used as the basis of any legal opinion and Claranova expressly disclaims all liability for any inaccuracy herein.

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CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE

Claranova

once again demonstrated the resilience and solidity of its business portfolio

In a world where economic, social and health balances have been disrupted, Claranova once again demonstrated the resilience and solidity of its business portfolio by maintaining strong growth momentum and close to half a billion euros in sales

this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the paradigm shift we have been observing for over 20 years now. This crisis has fundamentally accelerated the digital transformation of our daily life and consumer practices, and has thus fully benefited the technology sector to which we belong.

Growth in our revenues combined with our effective management of investments and costs, enabled us to nearly double our operating profit. All our divisions contributed to the significant improvement in these results reflecting the efforts of all our teams during this unprecedented period.

We continued to invest in R&D by launching new products such as FreePrints Gifts, InPixio Photo Studio 11 and new IoT solutions. We also continued the integration of Personal Creations and CafePress and completed two new acquisitions, PDFescape and

I See Me! These latest additions to our business portfolio illustrate our ability to acquire, integrate and rapidly generate value from technological assets.

Finally, for the first time in Claranova's history, this summer welcomed two new top-tier investors as shareholders of our Group. This strategic investment has allowed to form a group of cornerstone shareholders to stabilize to stabilize our shareholder base. This new investment also provides us with resources to finalize the buyout of Avanquest's minority interests in order to simplify our capital structure and increase the earnings potential for our historical shareholders.

Confident in the strength of our fundamentals, our strategy and our development potential, we remain confident in our outlook and renew our target for €700 million in annual revenue by 2023 and an EBITDA margin above 10% through a mix between organic growth and acquisitions.

PIERRE CESARINI

Chairman-CEO

02 -

KEY FIGURES

€472m

15%

€34m

Revenue

Annual growth(1)

EBITDA(2)

ANNUAL REVENUE

GROWTH

EBITDA(2)

(In € million)

(In € million)

472

Overall

Organic

34

figure

growth(3)

409

62%

56%

262

33%

16

17

20% 15% 14%

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

ADJUSTED NET INCOME(4)

CASH FLOWS

(In € million)

FROM OPERATIONS

(In € million)

19

29

19

8

7

7

NET DEBT (In € million)

6/30/2019

6/30/2020

6/30/2021

-14

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

-24-25

  1. 21% at constant exchange rates.
  2. EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) is a non-GAAP aggregate used to measure the operating performance of the businesses. It is equal to Recurring Operating Income before depreciation, amortization and share-based payments including related social security expenses and the IFRS 16 impact on the recognition of leases.
  3. Organic growth is like-for-like growth defined as the increase in revenue at constant consolidation scope and exchange rates.
  4. Adjusted net income is equal to Net income before the impact of share-based payments, including the related social security contributions, other operating income and expenses and fair value remeasurement of financial instruments and excluding the IFRS 16 impact on the recognition of leases.

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