Vilmorin & Cie - Annual report 2017-2018

CONTENTS THIS DOCUMENT IS ACCESSIBLE AND CAN BE DOWNLOADED AT WWW.VILMORINCIE.COM The words followed by a “*” are defined in the glossary. 1.1. Key figures 2 1.2. History and evolution of the Company 10 1.3. The seed market 13 1.4. Activities 22 1.5. Development model 33 1.6. Strategy and perspectives 37 1.7. Risk factors 51 2.1. Corporate Governance Code of Reference 64 2.2. The Board of Directors 65 2.3. Specialized Committees 78 2.4. Management bodies 79 2.5. Agreements with corporate officers and interests of the management bodies 81 2.6. Participation of the Shareholders in General Meetings 85 2.7. Information liable to have an impact in the case of a takeover bid 85 PRESENTATION of Vilmorin & Cie 1 Report on CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 2 Report of the Board of Directors to the Joint Annual General Meeting (Ordinary and Extraordinary) of December 7, 2018 88 5.1. Consolidated Financial Statements 144 5.2. Corporate Financial Statements 214 6.1. Information on the Company 222 6.2. Capital stock and Shareholders 225 6.3. Vilmorin & Cie’s shares 228 6.4. Relations with Shareholders 233 7.1. Agenda 238 7.2. Draft resolutions of an ordinary nature 240 7.3. Draft resolutions of an extraordinary nature 243 7.4. Draft resolution of an ordinary nature 249 8.1. Statutory Auditors 252 8.2. Incorporation with reference to historical financial information 253 8.3. Technical glossary 254 8.4. Financial glossary 255 FINANCIAL Information 5 Vilmorin & Cie and its SHAREHOLDERS 6 FURTHER Information 8 Management REPORT 3 JOINT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of December 7, 2018 7 4.1. The approach 102 4.2. Proposing innovative and responsible agri-food solutions 105 4.3. Conducting activities in an ethical, sustainable and effective manner 109 4.4. Building new patterns of relationship and creating value 128 4.5. Methodology note 137 4.6. Concordance table for social, environmental and societal information 139 Social, environmental and societal INFORMATION 4 RFA

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