Grupo Televisa Has Assumed a Direct and the Sustainability Strategy of Televisa Will Tangible Commitment with Sustainability
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Grupo Televisa has assumed a direct and The sustainability strategy of Televisa will tangible commitment with sustainability. We continue generating actions aligned with the know that today the success of a company business strategy with clear, formal and must go beyond the - very important - measurable objectives for the company. The profitability results, and ensure a sustainable company will also direct its efforts towards vision for the future that takes into account managing economic risks with social, and balances economic, environmental and corporate governance and environmental sociocultural aspects in the operation. impacts, in order to protect the value of our brand, the interests of the business and the Televisa wishes to unite wills so that its relationships of the groups with which the business success is always accompanied by company is related. I am sure that we are on benefits for its shareholders, employees and the right track. the society in general. We intend to reciprocate the trust of our public, by being an example of sustainability among Mexican companies. Emilio Azcárraga Jean President and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Televisa 1 Televisa is a leading media company in the production Televisa’s cable business offers integrated of audiovisual content in Spanish, an important cable services, including video, high-speed data and operator in Mexico and a leading direct-to-home voice services to residential and commercial satellite pay television system in Mexico. customers as well as managed services to domestic and international carriers through five Televisa distributes the content it produces through cable Multiple System Operators in Mexico. several broadcast channels in Mexico, 26 pay-tv brands in Mexico and abroad, and television Televisa owns a majority interest in Sky, a networks, cable operators and over-the-top or "OTT" leading direct-to-home satellite pay television services in over 50 countries. system in Mexico, operating also in the Dominican Republic and Central America. In the United States, Televisa's audiovisual content is distributed through Univision Communications Inc. ("Univision") the leading media company serving the Televisa also has interests in magazine Hispanic market. Univision broadcasts Televisa's publishing and distribution, radio production and audiovisual content through multiple platforms in broadcasting, professional sports and live exchange for a royalty payment. entertainment, feature-film production and distribution, and gaming. In addition, Televisa has equity and warrants which upon their exercise and subject to any necessary approval from the Federal Communications Commission of the United States would represent approximately 36% on a fully-diluted, as-converted basis of the equity capital in Univision Holdings Inc., the controlling company of Univision. 2 The corporate governance of Group Televisa is based on a set of principles and rules that govern the design, integration and the functioning of the government bodies of the company. It covers the existing power relations amongst the shareholders, the members of the Board of Directors and senior executives and officials of the company. The Board of Directors is responsible for the management, The appointment of directors takes into account the administration and the definition of the strategic vision of the value added that they provide to the company through company's business, with the authorities conferred upon it by their experience, integrity, honesty and professionalism. the applicable laws and the by-laws. It is assisted by the Audit & Corporate Practices The Board of Directors is appointed by the General Ordinary Committee in the monitoring of the management, Shareholders´ Meeting and is comprised of up to twenty governance and performance of the businesses. directors and their respective alternates. It complies with the number of directors that according to the Mexican Securities The Board of Directors meets at least four times during Market Law (Ley del Mercado de Valores de México) and the the year. recommendations of the Code of Best Corporate Practices of the Business Coordinating Council (Consejo Coordinador Empresarial), must be independent. 3 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS • Francisco José Chévez Robelo (3) •Emilio Fernando Azcárraga Jean (P) (1, 2) Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit & Corporate Practices Officer, and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Grupo Committee of Grupo Televisa, Member of the Board of Directors and President of the Televisa. Member of the Boards of Directors of Banco Nacional de Audit & Corporate Practices Committee of Empresas Cablevisión. Co-founder and México and Univision Communications. Board Member since: retired partner of the firm Chévez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cía., S.C., member of the Board of December, 1990. Directors of Apuestas Internacionales, S.A. de C.V. and Raspafácil, S.A. de C.V., and former Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen & Co. (Mexico). Board Member since: •Alfonso de Angoitia Noriega (1, 2) April, 2003. Executive Vice President, Member of the Executive Office of the Chairman, and Member of the Executive Committee of Grupo • Jon Feltheimer (3) Televisa. Member of the Board of Directors of Univision Chief Executive Officer of Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. Former President of Columbia Communications, Grupo Financiero Banorte and Fomento TriStar Television Group and former Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. Former Vice President of Entertainment. Board Member since: April, 2015. Finance and Administration of Grupo Televisa. Board Member since: April, 1997. •José Antonio Fernández Carbajal (3) •Alberto Bailléres González (2, 3) Chairman of the Board of Directors of FEMSA and Coca-Cola FEMSA. Member of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Bal, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Industrias Peñoles, S.A.B. de C.V. Member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Industrias Peñoles, Fresnillo PLC, Grupo Board of the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Vice President Nacional Provincial, S.A.B. de C.V., Grupo Profuturo, S.A.B. de C.V., of the Supervisory Board of Heineken NV and Member of the Preparatory, Selection and Petrobal, S.A.P.I. de C.V., Grupo Palacio de Hierro, S.A.B. de C.V. Appointment Committee and President of the Committee of Heineken for the Americas. and member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Financiero BBVA Board Member of Heineken Holdings NV. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bancomer, S.A.B. de C.V., BBVA Bancomer, S.A., Fomento Fundación FEMSA and Chairman Emeritus of the US-Mexico Foundation. Co-chairman Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., Grupo Kuo, S.A.B. de C.V., of the Mexican Chapter of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Board Member since: April, Grupo Dine, S.A.B. de C.V., and Valores Mexicanos Casa de Bolsa, 2007. S.A. de C.V., President of the Board of Trustees of Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM. Founding Partner of Fundación Alberto Bailléres, A.C. Mr. Bailléres is a member of the •José Luis Fernández Fernández (3) J.P. Morgan International Council. Board Member since: April, 2005. Managing Partner of Chévez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cía., S.C. Member of the Audit and Corporate Practices Committee of Grupo Televisa. Member of the Board of Directors of •Julio Barba Hurtado (1, 2) Mexichem, Arca Continental Corporativo, S. de R.L. de C.V., Genomma Lab Legal advisor of Grupo Televisa. Secretary to the Audit & Corporate Internacional, S.A.B. de C.V., Unifin Financiera, S.A.P.I. de C.V., Controladora Vuela Practices Committee and member of the Executive Committee of Compañía de Aviación, S.A.P.I. de C.V. and apuestas internacionales, S.A. de C.V. Grupo Televisa. Former legal advisor of the Board of Directors of Alternate Member of the Board of Directors of Raspafácil, S.A. de Grupo Televisa. Board Member since: December, 1990. C.V. Board Member since: April, 2002. •José Antonio Bastón Patiño (1, 2) (P) Chairman President of Television and Contents and Member of the Executive (1) Related Committee of Grupo Televisa. Member of the Board of Directors of Univision Communications. Former Corporate Vice President of (2) Proprietary Television, Vice President of Operations and former General Director (3) Independent of Programming of Grupo Televisa. Board Member since: April, 1999. 4 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS •Salvi Rafael Folch Viadero (1,2) Vice President of Finance and Administration of Grupo Televisa. •Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez (3) Former Vice President of Financial Planning of Grupo Televisa. Chief Executive Officer of Empresas Polar. Former Board Member of AES La Former Chief Executive Officer and Former Chief Financial Officer Electricidad de Caracas, CANTV-Verizon and BBVA Banco Provincial and of Comercio Más, S.A. de C.V. and Former Vice President of the Member of the Board of Directors of Grupo GEPP. Board Member since: April, Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission. Board 2009. Member since: April, 2002. •Fernando Senderos Mestre (2, 3) Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo KUO, •Michael Thomas Fries (3) S.A.B. de C.V. and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dine, S.A.B. de C.V. President, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Global, PLC. Director Member of the Boards of Directors of Kimberly-Clark México, Industrias Peñoles, of Telecom and of the Steering Committee. Member of the World Alfa, S.A.B. de C.V., and Grupo Nacional Provincial. Member of the Mexican Economic Forum. Member of the World Presidents Organization. Council of Businessmen and Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas, A.C. Board Member of the Boards of CableLabs®, Cable Center, the Member since: April, 1992. Contemporary Art Museum of Denver, the Denver Biennial of the Americas, the Alliance for Choice in Education, and Teach for •Enrique Francisco Senior Hernández (3) America.