The Supervisory Board of Lagardère SCA now includes an employee representative member further to the appointment of Michel Defer by the Group Employees' Committee, whose 30 standing members are drawn from various company- level works' committees or are individual personnel representatives within the Lagardère group. Michel Defer, has been an employee of the Lagardère Publishing division for almost 38 years and is currently an electromechanical service technician at the Hachette Livre Services and Operations division distribution centre. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board for a term of four years.