ANNUAL REPORT
2015-2016
CONTENTS
1
PRESENTATION
OF VILMORIN & CIE
Key figures 2
History and Evolution of the Company 9
The seed market 12
Activities 19
Development model 29
Strategy and perspectives 32
Risk factors 45
2
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Board of Directors 56
Specialized Committees 68
Management bodies 70
2.5.
and interests of the Management Bodies
Summary table of the recommendations
72
7.1.
Meeting agenda
214
of the AFEP-MEDEF Code that are not adopted
77
7.2.
Resolutions of an ordinary nature
216
2.6.
Chairman's Report on the functioning
7.3.
Resolutions of an extraordinary nature
219
Agreements with Corporate Officers
of the Board of Directors and internal control 78
3
MANAGEMENT REPORT
5
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
5.1. Consolidated Financial Statements 128
6
VILMORIN & CIE
AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS
Information on the Company 198
Capital stock and shareholders 201
Vilmorin & Cie's shares 205
Relations with shareholders 209
7
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF DECEMBER 9, 2016
7.4. Resolution of an ordinary nature 224
8
FURTHER INFORMATION
Report of the Board of Directors to the Joint Annual Meeting
(Ordinary and Extraordinary) of December 9 , 2016 84
4
Statutory Auditors 226
Publicly available documents 227
Incorporation with reference to historical financial information 227
Glossary 228
SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL
AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION
Report of the Board of Directors concerning social, environmental and societal information 96
Concordance tables for social,
environmental and societal information 124
VILMORIN & CIE IN BRIEF
The 4th largest seed company in the world, Vilmorin & Cie develops vegetable and field seeds with high added value contributing to meeting
global food requirements.
Accompanied by its reference shareholder Limagrain, an international agricultural cooperative group, Vilmorin & Cie's strategy for growth relies on sustained investments in research and international development to durably strengthen its market shares
on promising world markets.
True to its vision of sustainable development,
Vilmorin & Cie ensures its achievements fully respect its three founding values: progress, at the heart of its beliefs and its mission,
perseverance, inherent to farming and the seeds business, and cooperation, in the fields of science, industry and commerce.
Sales 2015-2016
1,627
million Euros(1)
Net income 2015-2016
60.8
million Euros
with a group share of 59.3 million Euros
More than
6,900
permanent staff(1)throughout the world
Taking into account application of the standard IFRS 11, certain companies have been accounted for using the equity method since fiscal year 2014-2015.
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