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VILMORIN & CIE IN BRIEF

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Profile

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Message from the Board of Directors

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The major phases of development

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A specific development model

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A strategy of winning market shares

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1 PRESENTATION OF VILMORIN & CIE

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1.1. Key figures

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1.2. History and evolution of the Company

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1.3. The seed market

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1.4. Activities

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1.5. Development model

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1.6. Strategy and perspectives

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1.7. Risk factors

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2 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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2.1. The Board of Directors

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2.2. Specialized Committees

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2.3. Management bodies

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2.4. Agreements with Corporate Officers and interests of the Management Bodies

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2.5. Summary table of the recommendations of the AFEP-MEDEF Code that are not adopted

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2.6. Chairman’s Report on the functioning of the Board of Directors and internal control

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3 MANAGEMENT REPORT

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Report of the Board of Directors to the Joint Annual Meeting (Ordinary and Extraordinary) of December 9, 2016

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4 SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION

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4.1. Report of the Board of Directors concerning social, environmental and societal information

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4.2. Concordance tables for social, environmental and societal information

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5 FINANCIAL INFORMATION

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5.1. Consolidated Financial Statements

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6 VILMORIN & CIE AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS

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6.1. Information on the Company

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6.2. Capital stock and shareholders

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6.3. Vilmorin & Cie’s shares

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6.4. Relations with shareholders

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7 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF DECEMBER 9, 2016

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7.1. Meeting agenda

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7.2. Resolutions of an ordinary nature

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7.3. Resolutions of an extraordinary nature

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7.4. Resolution of an ordinary nature

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8 FURTHER INFORMATION

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8.1. Statutory Auditors

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8.2. Publicly available documents

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8.3. Incorporation with reference to historical financial information

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8.4. Glossary

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