L’OCCITANE GROUP PHILANTHROPY REPORT 2014-2015 FOREWORD

n the 80s, Olivier Baussan went to to SUMMARY initiate a sustainable partnership with the women Iproducers of shea butter. Today, the brands of the L’OCCITANE group support projects of impact linked to our values.

Beauty and sensoriality are part of our core activity and that is why women’s leadership, fighting avoidable blindness and providing care to vulnerable people are some of the themes that matter to us. But authenticity P3 L’OCCITANE GROUP PHILANTHROPY REPORT also guides our work, and that is why we are committed Foreword to the transmission of the natural heritage. Philanthropy in 2014-2015 Every year, our actions are renewed thanks to the launching of partnerships with NGOs and our employees P6 L’OCCITANE are getting more and more involved. The customers also contribute to the development of our commitment when Women for Burkina they purchase our solidarity products. The implication of Union for Vision all these actors is essential and it is a pleasure to share with Natural Heritage you the achievements resulting from this cooperation.

P13 L’OCCITANE FOR JAPAN Reinold Geiger, President of the L’OCCITANE Foundation Reconstruction and L’OCCITANE CEO

P14 LE COUVENT DES MINIMES Care to the people Respect and appreciation of traditions and territories are core values of the L’OCCITANE group since its creation.

P15 MELVITA To ensure the continuity of this approach, every year is a new Bees, Nature and Solidarity opportunity to meet the people and discover the localities which contribute to our products singularity.

P16 FINANCES FOCUS By supporting local communities and regions that are important to us, we hope to create a social and environmental dynamic over the long term. This report shows the P17 EMPLOYEES GET INVOLVED philanthropic activities that guided this commitment in 2014-2015.

Olivier Baussan, Vice President of the L’OCCITANE Foundation and L’OCCITANE Founder 4 5

Women’s leadership

PHILANTHROPY IN 2014-2015 Fight against avoidable blindness

TOTAL BUDGET L’OCCITANE GROUP 40 € PROJECTS + 1,600,000 = SUPPORTED L’OCCITANE FOUNDATION

Fight against Women’s Transmission avoidable leadership of the natural blindness heritage in Provence

+ 500,000 BURKINA FASO PHILANTHROPY PEOPLE + 13,000 + 200,000 BUDGET RECEIVED WOMEN PEOPLE ALLOCATED EYE CARE SUPPORTED SENSITIZED FOCUS OUR ACTION TO BURKINA IN BURKINA TO GIVE MEANING € 586,497 MELVITA LE COUVENT TO OUR COMMITMENT FOUNDATION DES MINIMES During a trip to Burkina Faso, Olivier supporting projects that contribute Baussan discovered shea butter, the to the development of the country, Bees, Nature and Care to the people green gold of the Burkinabe. Thanks ranked 181st out of 187 on the UNDP Solidarity to the creation of a sustainable HDI. Support to NGOs focuses on two production chain that employs 17,000 fields of action: women’s leadership women, L’OCCITANE became the and fight against avoidable blindness. 64% first importer of Burkina butter. Focusing on these themes and in this 36% The procedure is labeled fair trade particular country allows us to act but the founder prefers to name it considering real needs and to optimize “co-development”. our impact. 41 392 PEOPLE HIVES SETTED SUPPORTED L’OCCITANE Foundation wants to Women’s Leadership deepen this longstanding partnership Fight against avoidable blindness 6 7

CONTINUATION OF THE LITERACY Breeding of a Burkinabe woman AND MICROCREDITS PROGRAMS who benefited from microcredit Since its beginning, the Foundation has supported two WOMEN FOR BURKINA training programs for women in Burkina. Literacy is the first step of the process. Three-year programs, developed in partnership with the NGO Aide et Action, enable women to learn how to read and write. In Burkina, shea butter is a huge treasure for the Entrepreneurs du Monde completes this achievement providing them socio-economic trainings and facilitating population. In spite of this, the harvesters women their access to microcredit. 2014-2015 still face a lot of difficulties in managing the whole production chain. Therefore, this year has strengthened the sustainability of the projects. , 359,232 L’OCCITANE uses shea butter from the Burkinabe women in a wide range of its products. To extend this FOR partnership, the Foundation chose to focus its action on A SHEA SOLIDARITY BALM WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP the development of women’s leadership in the country. TO SUPPORT BURKINABE WOMEN

+13,000 WOMEN The Ultra Soft Balm was sold for the International received Women for Burkina program relies on three pillars: Women’s Day, on March 8th. More than € 127,000 were a microcredit literacy programs, support on the access to microcredit raised in favor of the training of Burkinabe women. and socio-economical trainings and valorization of entrepreneurship projects, through the attribution of awards and individual support.

Literacy session in Léo with Aide et Action NGO

FOCUS L’OCCITANE FOUNDATION PÉPITE AWARDS

In 2014, three more women were rewarded with the L’OCCITANE Foundation Pépite Award.

Each one receives €,10,000 to finance business projects that contribute to the development of Burkinabe communities. Three areas were selected this year: forestry development, production of biodegradable packaging and reinforcement of the poultry production. 8 9

UNION FOR VISION FOCUS FIGHT AGAINST IN 2015, TRACHOMA AND ONCHOCERCIASIS L’OCCITANE FOUNDATION CELEBRATES THE 2 MILLION BENEFICIARIES Trachoma and onchocerciasis are tropical diseases that affect sight. With the support of the Foundation, the NGO SightSavers fight them providing care OF ITS COMMITMENT PROGRAM FOR SIGHT INITIATED IN 2000. and appropriate treatments. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 2014-2015 285 million people are blind and visually impaired in the world. However, 4 out of 5 cases of blindness are ONE YEAR AFTER THE PROJECT STARTED MORE THAN 40,000 PEOPLE WERE TREATED , 853,585 avoidable. To help changing this figure, the L’OCCITANE Foundation TO FIGHT chose to focus its action on the prevention of visual impairment. AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS Since 2012, the Union for Vision program has brought + 500,000 PEOPLE together a plan to fight avoidable blindness in Burkina treated and projects supported by the international subsidiaries in their country. 2 PROJECTS CARRIED OUT WITH LIGHT FOR THE WORLD 90% OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED LIVE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SCHOLARSHIPS TO BECOME AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST

Orbis NGO screening, China After obtaining their medical degree, four Burkinabe doctors received a scholarship to attend a training in ophthalmology in Mali. A SOLIDARITY SOAP Two of them will complete their studies this year and will TO PREVENT BLINDNESS be able to share their expertise for the benefit of the rural populations of Burkina Faso. In October 2014, a solidarity soap with shea butter was sold for World Sight Day. The sale allowed to raise more than , 162,000. These funds are donated to the Union for PROVIDE AN UNIVERSAL ACCESS Vision projects in Burkina. TO EYE CARE

A program to ensure universal access to eye care was initiated in the Central West region of Burkina. It is conducted in close cooperation with the competent authorities at the national, regional and local level, and it aims to develop more complete and qualitative health services for isolated populations. 1 $ INVESTED IN BLINDNESS PREVENTION = MORE THAN $4 SAVED 10 11

UNION FOR VISION UK CROATIA € 20,000 were donated to sensitize Retinoblastoma is an eye cancer usually The support to the cultural project people from poor areas on the risk of developed by children. To sensitized of the association Imagine allowed a THE SUBSIDIARIES GET INVOLVED blindness in people with diabetes. the experts and the parents on the monthly release of an audio description importance of screenings, a video movie on a national channel. campaign broadcast on the national The project manager is visually impaired! L’OCCITANE employees also get involved in the channels was carried out with the different international subsidiaries. A total of 20 “Institut Curie”. correspondents support projects in favor of visually impaired in their country.

As key ambassadors of our action, they give meaning to the international dimension of the Foundation.

MONGOLIA

Santé Sud and the Mongolian National Federation of the Blind are supported by the local subsidiary to create an BUDGET COLLECTED information and prevention unit on BY THE SUSIDIARIES visual impairment.

€ 168,349 CHINA

€ 14,000 were given to the Eye Care program of the NGO Orbis China. This amount is used to finance sensitizations, screenings and eye surgeries in the pro- vince of Guandong. 35,000 bénéficiaries !

CANADA USA BRAZIL INDONESIA MALAYSIA JAPAN

Three interactive events organized The Art Beyond Sight Association pro- Dorina Nowill Foundation developed an The Mitra Netra Foundation had the idea € 10,000 were allocated to the St. Nicho- The subsidiary supported the project of by The Foundation Fighting Blindness gram continued with a larger audience. adapted platform and a mobile app to of setting up booths for the registration las’ Home in Penang to provide pastry the Japan Braille Library for the production gathered medical experts and visually It allows visually impaired to learn with provide access to the audio-magazine of of audio description books in malls. trainings to visually impaired. The program of adapted audio books. A happening that creates public impaired to advance together research alternative methods, combining art and the Foundation to the blind, and the Bra- gives a boost to their employability. awareness in a funny way! on avoidable blindness. sensory activities. zilian subsidiary chose to support this Each student is supported by an employee! innovative and inclusive initiative. ロクシタンの真実*

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NATURAL HERITAGE L’OCCITANE FOR JAPAN

L’OCCITANE was born in ‘Alpes de Haute Provence’ region in 1976 and is committed to Following the earthquake and the tsunami that shook up Japan on March 11, 2011, the transmission of Provence natural heritage since its inception. Philanthropy projects L’OCCITANE committed to support the country through the creation of the FUND in Provence are now a field of action of L’OCCITANE Foundation and come to life thanks L’OCCITANE for Japan. to 6 partners organizations. , 2 million were collected to finance material and human reconstruction projects in local The main component of this commitment is the Lavender For Ever program, which communities. supports projects for the preservation of lavender and lavandin in this region.

Les créations en kimono de Yuriko Shimizu

2014-2015

, 155,000 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FOR THE TRANSMISSION xxxxxx OF NATURAL HERITAG IN PROVENCE

+ 200,000 PEOPLE sensitized

WORKING FOR LAVENDER’S 3 MAJOR PARTNERS DEVELOP PRESERVATION PROJECTS IN JAPAN FOCUS OPENING THE POPES’ PALACE GARDENS THREE JAPANESE Philanthropy in Provence supports the lavender protection. Indeed, lavender farming is facing two issues: decline caused by TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC TOHOKU YOUTH VENTURE ENTREPRENEURS IN PROVENCE phytoplasma, a disease transmitted by a devastating insect, and global warming. In just a few years, lavender production volumes This year, the Foundation also chose to support the renova- Program is based on a partnership with the Ashoka Fund to For the second year, three Japanese in Provence halved. tion of Avignon Popes’ Palace Gardens. The Popes’ Palace is support the development of entrepreneurship among youth. entrepreneurs used to the local markets, were the most important gothic palace in the world and remains able to discover our Provencal ones. CRIEPPAM (Centre Régionalisé Interprofessionnel d’Expéri- a major testimony of cultural and spiritual life in the Middle KENKO TERAYOKA Rika Sugawara was the instigator of a food mentation en Plantes à Parfum, Aromatiques et Médicinales), Age. Its gardens used to be an essential element of daily life collect for the victims. To thank the contributors a research center, has launched in May 2012 a fund directed organization. The Fund also supports an educators training project. They and volunteers, she crafted a collection of by Olivier Baussan, L’OCCITANE brand’s founder. This fund will work to re-create conviviality and wellbeing in the marine jewelry and named it Aqua Lab. supports research programs to find ecological solutions The fund ‘Palais des Papes – Pont d’Avignon’ initiated a project communities. to lavender. In 2014, the fund financed the development of reconstitution of the gardens according to its organization Miyuki Kumagai recreated moments of of a trapping system aimed to understand the interactions during Middle Age. In fact, the reproduction includes respec- conviviality between the residents with its between the insect and the lavender crops. ting how alimentation, medicinal plants, but also irrigation NETWORK ORANGE mobile restaurant, «Cheers BBQ Catering.» Among the proposed ecological solutions, control trials techniques and scenery were arranged at the time. Eventually, conducted with white clay were chosen as it forms a bandage thanks to the inauguration of a new circuit, the visitors will be An entrepreneurship contest encourages communities to Yuriko Shimizu started creating objects made of recycled kimonos and sold it in the markets. against insect’s action. able to visit Benedict XII Gardens. redevelop professional projects. 14 15

2014-2015

A BUDGET OF CARE TO THE PEOPLE € 90,900

47 PEOPLE Since 2011, Le Couvent des Minimes has given 1% trained in beekeeping of its annual revenues to EDOMI, the Franciscan Sisters Missionaries of Mary Organization, which supports + 600,000 PEOPLE humanitarian missions carried by the sisters all over sensitized the world. In partnership with the Sisters, we select projects around person care linked to the brand values and to the Sisters “LE RUCHER DU CADE“ investment in the Couvent from 1909 to 1999. 2014 -2015 “Le Rucher du Cade” organization was created in 2013 by some volunteers and motivated beekeepers employees. Its A BUDGET OF objective is to raise awareness about the € 68,000 importance of bees in our ecosystem among the group employees and the visitors of the 2 production sites. € 11,000 were invested in the project in FOR 2014 to allow the installation of 20 hives THE SUPPORT OF and the training of 22 employees curious about bees and beekeeping techniques. 392 people

BEES, NATURE AND SOLIDARITY SISTERS COMMITMENT Created in 2010, Melvita Foundation has been the IN , IN , philanthropic rendering of Melvita’s commitment for FOCUS A NEW PROMISING PROJECT PROJECTS ARE GOING FURTHER over 30 years. The Foundation supports organizations that daily act to preserve biodiversity in a agro- “LES ABEILLADES” In August 2014, a health center was inaugurated in the Cu For already 4 years, Le Couvent des Minimes contributes to the operation of a kindergarten and a school of nursing in the ecological approach, and specifically the bee. For In 2014, Melvita Foundation also Chi region, mainly populated by rural farmers with limited province of Trichy. the last 5 years, the Foundation had a total budget collaborated with the first edition of incomes. Part of the center’s employees are blind and the care The first students from the Child Jesus College of Nursing , the «Abeillades“, the bees, honey (acupuncture, traditional medicine) are still affordable. Every of 300,000. This year, seven projects were funded are now graduated and joined regional hospitals. This year and biodiversity Feast in Ardèche. day, nearly 100 patients receive care and services provided by for a total budget of € 90,900. 35 scholarships for nursing and special education trainings were The animations, exhibitions and the center’s professionals. also financed. conferences attracted more than The kindergarten Amali Seva Illam opened last year. It hosts 65 4,000 people to this friendly event children and 60 of their mothers, who receive social assistance located in the exceptional setting and training to increase their employability. COCAGNE LE PROJECT IN BRAZIL, of the Park of Vals les Bains. The A SECOND YEAR STILL RICH IN aim was to sensitize children and Melvita is committed with the Cocagne network for the development of ACHIEVEMENTS adults on bee’s protection and on the beekeeping in organic market gardens, that are also part of an employability preservation of biodiversity. program. As a continuity of the gardening activity, beekeeping is also an educational Initiated in 2013, the partnership with the Conviviality Center of tool to help the occupational integration of people with social difficulties. Taubaté in Brazil continues to pay off. The structure continues In 2014, € 30,000 were invested in the Network, allowing five gardens to train developing activities to support 95 elderly in situations of technical supervisors, to acquire the mining equipment (hives and swarms), to vulnerability or social exclusion: social assistance, psychological create educational panels and to organize sensitization animations to the general support, physiotherapy, and personal development workshops ... public. all this with joy and a sense of celebration typical of Brazilian! 16 17

FINANCES FOCUS FOCUS THE EMPLOYEES GET INVOLVED 2014-2015 L’OCCITANE SOLIDARITY PRODUCTS THE FOUNDATION’S CORRESPONDENTS TOTAL BUDGET PHILANTHROPY PROJECTS , 1 611 117 collected for SIGHT € 162,000 6% 4% collected for 5% Antonia Shimon Petra Audrey Daria Helen Natusko 54% WOMEN LAM KALICHMAN RANILOVIC CHRISTOPHLE BURDINA ZOU NAKAHARA 2,5% € 127,000

10,5% L’OCCITANE Foundation L’OCCITANE Fund € 869,224 € 84,400 Solidarity products Couvent des Minimes € € Laure 289,937 68,000 ALLOUCHE Rachel L’OCCITANE subsidiaries Melvita Foundation SZPORN Cora € 168,349 € 90,900 CHI 18% L’OCCITANE Philanthropy € 84,400

Coordinating Fields of Partner Amount Autres projets Katiuscia Elizabeth Anne Florence Rose structures action supported organizations allocated AMARAL PEREZ SCHAFER MARCENAC LAGARDE RAE Hélène 31 000 € GOETZELMANN Entrepreneurs du Monde, Leadership Aide et Action, Ashoka, féminin Maison de l’Entreprise du , 359 232 Burkina Faso, HEC, Stand Up 93, FSE L’OCCITANE Fight against Light For the World, Helen Clarance Barbara BOO PRUVOST Keller International, IAPB, , 853 585 avoidable blindness Sight Savers, Institut Curie, ORBIS…

Transmission Fonds Lavande, , of the natural heritage Palais des Papes... 155 000

L’OCCITANE Japan reconstruction Fonds Ashoka, Fund after 2011 Camille Patricia Pauline Marjorie CIVIC Force – , 84 400 EYRAUD MONTESINOS SOUCHAUD BELTRANDA earthquake Network Orange, Kenko Terayoka

Couvent des Minimes Care to the people EDOPI , 68 000

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