Plastic Omnium - 2018 Registration Document

6 RELATIONS WITH THE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY AND SHAREHOLDING STRUCTURE Financial communication www.plasticomnium.com PLASTIC OMNIUM 2018 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 258 FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION 6.1 The Investor Relations Department acts as liaison between the Group and the financial community, composed of institutional investors including socially responsible investors (SRI) and bond-holders, financial analysts, and individual shareholders. The Investor Relations Department provides all these market participants with accurate, precise and fairly-presented information in real time to keep them informed of the Group’s strategies, businesses, financial results, and medium-term objectives. Plastic Omnium makes two areas dedicated to “Investors” and “Shareholders” available to the financial community on its website www.plasticomnium.com . The website also contains the Group’s regulatory information, including its Registration Document, the “Trend and Performance” report, the CSR report (“Commitments and Achievements”), the half-year financial report, all of the Group’s press releases and its financial and investor presentations. On the “Shareholders’ Meeting” page, a section entitled “Shareholders” contains all documents relating to the General Shareholders’ Meeting. All of this information is also available on smartphone or tablet through an app that Plastic Omnium launched in January 2018. This application may be downloaded via the App Store for iPhones and iPads or Google Play for Androids. INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS 6.1.1 The Investor Relations Department communicates with the financial community, upon each release of annual and half-year results as well as during numerous meetings held throughout the year at the Group’s headquarters for investors and financial analysts, and during roadshows, and conferences organized by brokers. This year, more than 40 roadshows were organized in 18 different countries and 26 cities attended by over 1,100 investors and financial analysts. In addition, the Group organized an Investor Day at its global R&D center for clean energy systems, α -Alphatech, in Compiègne, on December 13, 2018, to present the Group’s strategy for profitable and independent growth. INDIVIDUAL SHAREHOLDERS 6.1.2 At December 31, 2018, the Plastic Omnium Group had more than 28,000 individual shareholders. Since 2016, Plastic Omnium strengthened its individual investor communications strategy by holding site visits. This year, around twenty individual shareholders were able to visit the international R&D center, ∑-Sigmatech, in Saint-Julie (France), which provided an opportunity for shareholders to learn about the Group’s extensive expertise in industrial processes and innovation, with various workshops such as injection molding, crash tests, pedestrian impact and weather resistance tests. In addition, in 2018 the Group resumed its attendance at individual Shareholder Meetings. During 2018, Plastic Omnium attended two such meetings: one in Lyon in March and one in Strasbourg in October. These two meetings, attended by around 750 people, were an opportunity for the Group to describe its businesses, its strategy, its areas for development and innovation and its CSR commitments, and to respond to various questions posed by shareholders. The Investor Relations Department provides individual shareholders with two Shareholder letters, published in March for the annual results and in September for the half-year results, as well as a Shareholder’s Guide. All of these documents may be found in the “Shareholders” section of the Group’s website. At the end of 2018, Plastic Omnium received the Bronze Award for best individual shareholder services of the SBF 120 companies, awarded by the financial magazine Le Revenu . This award recognizes all the work of the Plastic Omnium Investor Relations Department over a three-year period, as well as its introduction, during the past year, of electronic voting (VotAccess), enabling shareholders to cast their votes online prior to the General Meeting of Shareholders.