Worldline : strengthens its leading position in sustainability, moving up two positions in the Gaïa Index’s TOP 10

Ranked 7 this year in the overall Gaïa Index ranking of a panel composed of 230 assessed companies, Worldline confirms its strong leadership in regards to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) related matters. Worldline has also been ranked 7 in the category of businesses with more than 500M€ turnover.

Worldline has achieved its most significant performance improvement in the Gaïa Index in the social area, especially through its successful skills development strategy, its ambitious well-being at work program and its high involvement in diversity and equal opportunities related challenges.

Worldline has also improved and reinforced its stakeholder engagement approach, especially towards its suppliers thanks to its responsible procurement policy that aims to promote responsible behaviors and practices throughout its value chain.

In 2016, Worldline confirmed its ambition to be a recognized leader in terms of its commitment to sustainability by launching 'TRUST 2020', its long-term CSR program that aims to put trust at the heart of its ecosystem and to create sustainable value for all of its stakeholders. The first results achieved as part of this ambitious program concretely and clearly reflect the strong progress momentum in which Worldline is involved and demonstrate the full mobilization of the company to improve its CSR performance. The progress achieved through the 'TRUST 2020' program has been widely recognized and rewarded by major extra-financial rating agencies in the last months and this new prize awarded by the Gaïa Rating once again reinforces Worldline's credibility regarding CSR topics.

* About the Gaïa Index:

Gaïa Rating, an EthiFinance division, is specialized in the analysis and rating of ESG (environment, social, governance) of SMEs/ETI. Since 2009, Gaïa Rating has been conducting an ESG data collection campaign covering most of the listed SMEs in France. Based on this information, companies are rated on their level of transparency and performance. Rankings were established by category of turnover in order to reward the best players from a small panel of 230 SMEs/ETI listed on the Paris stock exchange respecting 4 criteria of size and liquidity. The ESG rating agency Gaïa Rating is used by leading management companies in their management process and investment decisions.

Sébastien Mandron, Worldline CSR Officer, states:'Our ranking among the TOP 10 of the best-in-class companies of the Gaïa Index for their CSR performance and our two-place progression in the Index demonstrate the effectiveness of the action plan implemented as part of our long-term 'TRUST 2020' CSR program. This new recognition represents a great encouragement for our teams who have been strongly mobilized in this momentum of sustainable value creation for all our stakeholders.'

To learn more about our CSR strategy and our 'TRUST 2020' ambition and commitments, please have a look to our 2016 CSR Report: http://csr2016.worldline.com/

About Worldline

Worldline [Euronext: WLN] is the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry. Worldline delivers new-generation services, enabling its customers to offer smooth and innovative solutions to the end consumer. Key actor for B2B2C industries, with over 45 years of experience, Worldline supports and contributes to the success of all businesses and administrative services in a perpetually evolving market. Worldline offers a unique and flexible business model built around a global and growing portfolio, thus enabling end-to-end support. Worldline activities are organized around three axes: Merchant Services, Mobility & e-Transactional Services, Financial Processing & Software Licensing including equensWorldline. Worldline employs more than 9,400 people worldwide, with an estimated revenue of circa 1.5 billion euros on a yearly basis. Worldline is an Atos company. worldline.com

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