Publicis Groupe S.A. (ENXTPA:PUB) commences a share repurchase on September 27, 2021, under the program mandated by the shareholders in Combined General Meeting held on May 26, 2021. As per the mandate, the company is authorized to repurchase up to €2,106.04 million worth of its shares. The maximum number of shares that can be repurchased must not exceed 10% of its issued share capital on the date of each repurchase. The maximum purchase price per share will be €85. The purpose of program is allotting or selling shares to employees and/or corporate officers of the company and/or its group, in accordance with the requirements and procedures prescribed by applicable statutes and regulations, delivering shares to honor obligations in connection with instruments or securities that confer equity rights, conserving and subsequently delivering shares as a means of exchange in merger, spin-off or contribution transactions or as a means of exchange, payment or other means in the case of external growth transactions, encouraging the secondary market or liquidity of Publicis shares through the intermediary of an investment services provider acting in the name and on behalf of the company, pursuant to a liquidity agreement or any other applicable provision, canceling shares thus acquired, pursuant to authorization granted by an Extraordinary General Shareholders’ meeting, implementing any market practice that is currently permissible or may be permitted in the future by the market authorities, the program is also intended to enable the company to act for any other purpose that is currently authorized or may be authorized in the future by the laws and regulations in force. The authorization will be valid for 18 months. As of May 26, 2021, the company had 248,260,763 shares under issue.