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1
PRESENTATION
OF VILMORIN & CIE
1.1.
Key figures
2
1.2.
History and Evolution of the Company
9
1.3.
The seed market
12
1.4.
Activities
19
1.5.
Development model
29
1.6.
Strategy and perspectives
32
1.7.
Risk factors
45
2
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
2.1.
The Board of Directors
56
2.2.
Specialized Committees
68
2.3.
Management bodies
70
2.4.
Agreements with Corporate Officers
and interests of the Management Bodies
72
2.5.
Summary table of the recommendations
of the AFEP-MEDEF Code that are not adopted
77
2.6.
Chairman’s Report on the functioning
of the Board of Directors and internal control
78
3
MANAGEMENT REPORT
Report of the Board of Directors to the Joint Annual Meeting
(Ordinary and Extraordinary) of December 9 , 2016
84
4
SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL
AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION
4.1.
Report of the Board of Directors concerning social,
environmental and societal information
96
4.2.
Concordance tables for social,
environmental and societal information
124
CONTENTS
5
FINANCIAL
INFORMATION
5.1.
Consolidated Financial Statements
128
6
VILMORIN & CIE
AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS
6.1.
Information on the Company
198
6.2.
Capital stock and shareholders
201
6.3.
Vilmorin & Cie’s shares
205
6.4.
Relations with shareholders
209
7
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
OF DECEMBER 9, 2016
7.1.
Meeting agenda
214
7.2.
Resolutions of an ordinary nature
216
7.3.
Resolutions of an extraordinary nature
219
7.4.
Resolution of an ordinary nature
224
8
FURTHER
INFORMATION
8.1.
Statutory Auditors
226
8.2.
Publicly available documents
227
8.3.
Incorporation with reference to historical financial informatio
n
227
8.4.
Glossary
228