Our employees

• + 5,000 employees received digital training in 2015
• 100 % of employees have a minimum level of social protection (1)
• 800,000 LinkedIn followers
• 31 % of Executive Committee members are women

Our research

• 497patents registered in 2015
• €794M Million euros invested in Research & Innovation
• 3,870Research and Innovation employees
• 1Worldwide centre in France
• 5Regional hubs

Our production

• 88 Patents for packaging and processes
• >70 000 Suppliers of packaging and raw materials
• 42 Factories worldwide
• 8 Distribution channels (2)
• 15 Sites with carbon neutrality
• >500 000 Delivery points

Our commitments

• + 60nationalities represented in Communications teams
• 25,000 employees took part in the Citizen Day in 2015
• 82% of new products have an improved environmental or social profile
• 67% of reduction of CO2  emissions from a 2005 Baseline with a production volume that has increased by 29% over the same period
• 67 533 people from underprivileged communities were provided access to work

Digital

• + 1,000 Employees are digital experts
• 25.5% of net media spending on digital
• +37.9% E-commerce sales growth (3)
• 5.2%Digital share of consolidated sales (3)

Source : 2015 Annual Report, click here to discover the full version online



(1) Permanent group employees, excluding in some countries, holders of part-time contracts for less than 21 hours per week, beauty advisors and shop assistants; the integration of recent acquisitions and new subsidiaries is gradual.
(2) hair salons, mass-market retail channels, perfumeries, pharmacies, drugstores, medispas, branded retail, travel retail, e-commerce
(3) Sales achieved on the brands' own websites and estimated sales achieved by the brands corresponding to sales through retailers' websites (non-audited data).