ANNUAL REPORT

2015-2016

CONTENTS

1

PRESENTATION

OF VILMORIN & CIE

  1. Key figures 2

  2. History and Evolution of the Company 9

  3. The seed market 12

  4. Activities 19

  5. Development model 29

  6. Strategy and perspectives 32

  7. Risk factors 45

2

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

  1. The Board of Directors 56

  2. Specialized Committees 68

  3. Management bodies 70

    2.5.

    and interests of the Management Bodies

    Summary table of the recommendations

    72

    7.1.

    Meeting agenda

    214

    of the AFEP-MEDEF Code that are not adopted

    77

    7.2.

    Resolutions of an ordinary nature

    216

    2.6.

    Chairman's Report on the functioning

    7.3.

    Resolutions of an extraordinary nature

    219

  4. Agreements with Corporate Officers

of the Board of Directors and internal control 78

3

MANAGEMENT REPORT

5

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

5.1. Consolidated Financial Statements 128

6

VILMORIN & CIE

AND ITS SHAREHOLDERS

  1. Information on the Company 198

  2. Capital stock and shareholders 201

  3. Vilmorin & Cie's shares 205

  4. Relations with shareholders 209

7

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF DECEMBER 9, 2016

7.4. Resolution of an ordinary nature 224

8

FURTHER INFORMATION

Report of the Board of Directors to the Joint Annual Meeting

(Ordinary and Extraordinary) of December 9 , 2016 84

4

  1. Statutory Auditors 226

  2. Publicly available documents 227

  3. Incorporation with reference to historical financial information 227

  4. Glossary 228

SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL

AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION

  1. Report of the Board of Directors concerning social, environmental and societal information 96

  2. Concordance tables for social,

    environmental and societal information 124

    VILMORIN & CIE IN BRIEF

    The 4th largest seed company in the world, Vilmorin & Cie develops vegetable and field seeds with high added value contributing to meeting

    global food requirements.

    Accompanied by its reference shareholder Limagrain, an international agricultural cooperative group, Vilmorin & Cie's strategy for growth relies on sustained investments in research and international development to durably strengthen its market shares

    on promising world markets.

    True to its vision of sustainable development,

    Vilmorin & Cie ensures its achievements fully respect its three founding values: progress, at the heart of its beliefs and its mission,

    perseverance, inherent to farming and the seeds business, and cooperation, in the fields of science, industry and commerce.

    Sales 2015-2016

    1,627

    million Euros(1)

    Net income 2015-2016

    60.8

    million Euros

    with a group share of 59.3 million Euros

    More than

    6,900

    permanent staff(1)

    throughout the world

    1. Taking into account application of the standard IFRS 11, certain companies have been accounted for using the equity method since fiscal year 2014-2015.

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