Worldline: Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting of May 20, 2021
confirmed behind closed doors - Launch of the new five-year CSR
roadmap with Trust 2025 program - Update on Group Governance for
2021
2020 Universal Registration Document
filed with the French Financial Market Authority
Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting of
May 20th, 2021 confirmed behind
closed doors
Launch of the new five-year CSR roadmap
with Trust 2025 program
Update on Group Governance for
2021
Bezons, April 14, 2021 – Worldline
[Euronext: WLN], a Global leader in the payments industry,
today announced that its 2020 Universal Registration Document was
filed with the French Financial Market Authority (AMF) on April 13,
2021. The Registration Document includes in particular the 2020
financial report, the new five-year CSR roadmap with Trust 2025
program and the board of director’s report on corporate
governance.
Annual General Shareholders’ meeting of
May 20th, 2021 confirmed behind closed doors
Worldline Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be
held on Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 2.30 p.m. Although Worldline
values this moment which is an opportunity for Worldline to share
and engage in constructive dialogue with its shareholders, this
year as in 2020, considering the ongoing and exceptional context
related to the the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) and the
maintenance of the state of health emergency, the Annual General
Meeting will be exceptionally held behind closed doors (à huis
clos), without shareholders being physically present, in accordance
with the applicable regulations, in particular the order n°2020-321
dated March 25, 2020 and the decree n°2020-418 dated April 10, 2020
the provisions of which have been extended by the order n° 2021-255
dated March 9, 2021.
In these conditions the shareholders may only
exercise their voting rights remotely, prior to the General
Shareholders’ Meeting, either online using the VOTACCESS secure
platform or with the paper voting form.
The Annual General meeting will be broadcasted
on Worldline website allowing the shareholders to attend remotely.
In compliance with the Financial Market Authority recommendations,
practical measures will be taken in order to favour shareholders’
active participation with the possibility to ask written questions
in advance of the General Meeting or during the meeting on a
dedicated live platform.
All the practical terms for participating in
this Shareholders’ Meeting, along with the agenda and the
resolutions are available on the notice of meeting to be published
in the Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires of 14 April 2021
n° 45 (http://balo.journal-officiel.gouv.fr).
TRUST 2025: the new Worldline five-year
CSR roadmap
Since its IPO in 2014, Worldline has committed
to a voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach. The
resulting strategy, fully embedded in the Group’s corporate
strategy, has been structured around 5 main challenges, as
identified through a materiality assessment, in the areas of
business, people, value chain & ethics and the environment. The
associated KPIs and reporting to monitor performance are also
compliant with the most stringent recommendations of the highest
leading extra-financial standards (GRI comprehensive option, UN
Global Compact signatory member).
In order to bring more credibility, transparency
and accuracy to its approach, Worldline has decided to launch in
2015 its TRUST 2020 Programme, reflecting its long-term commitment
and ambition toward sustainable development.
TRUST 2020 has been a key enabler for mobilizing
the whole organization around the 13 objectives to be achieved by
2020. As a result, eleven objectives have been achieved or
overachieved, one has been partially achieved and the last one has
not been achieved. The progress made through the TRUST 2020
Programme has also been awarded by the leading non-financial rating
agencies.
Building on this strong momentum and the lessons
learnt, strengthened in 2020 by the adoption of the Company sense
of purpose, Worldline has been designing its TRUST 2025 Program
that aims at opening a new chapter for the Company CSR journey.
TRUST 2025 represents the transformation vehicle
to give concrete expression to the Company’s sense of purpose. This
new commitment is a continuation of TRUST 2020, anticipating new
market trends, risks and opportunities and regulatory changes for
the coming years and is based on the following challenges:
- Guarantee delivery excellence and utmost quality of
services
- Enhance customer experience through positive impact
solutions
- Foster people development, well-being and engagement
- Rise up Sustainable procurement practices within our value
chain
- Endorse ethics and confidence in all our activities
- Contribute to carbon neutrality
- Offer eco-designed payment terminals aligned with circular
economy
- Help our local communities
With this new ambition, Worldline intends to go
further in its commitment to excellence in CSR by applying the best
practices and the highest market standards, by mobilizing its whole
organization in the right direction, by positively influencing its
ecosystem for a more sustainable world.
Update on Group Governance for
2021
Following the successful closing of the Ingenico
acquisition, the Board of Directors welcomed new members coming
from Ingenico Board according to the combination agreement entered
into on February 2, 2020 between Worldline and Ingenico.
The Board of Directors is now composed at 65% by
independent members, including a Lead Director, Mr Georges Pauget.
It benefits from the strong and wide range of complementary skills
and experiences of its members.
On April 7, 2021, with regard to the latest
information provided by Mr. Bernard Bourigeaud that the personal
constraints which have temporarily prevented him from assuming the
duties of non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at
closing will be resolved shortly, the Board of Directors decided
notably, upon proposal of the Nomination Committee, to confirm its
intent, in line with the spirit that as animated the completion of
the initial agreements at the announcement of the acquisition of
Ingenico, to appoint Mr. Bernard Bourigeaud as non-executive
Chairman at the end of the third quarter of 2021, date on which Mr.
Bernard Bourigeaud confirmed that he will be able to fully assume
this function.
Until then, Mr. Gilles Grapinet continues to
assume the chairmanship of the Board of Directors in addition to
his duties of Chief Executive Officer in order to ensure stable and
efficient governance in the context of Ingenico integration.
Forthcoming events
- April 21,
2021
Q1 2021 revenue
- May 20,
2021
Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting
- July 27,
2021
H1 2021 results
- October 19,
2021 Q3 2021
revenue
Contacts
Investor Relations
Laurent Marie+33 7 84 50 18
90laurent.marie@ingenico.com
Benoit d’Amécourt+33 6 75 51 41
47benoit.damecourt@worldline.com
Communication
Sandrine van der Ghinst+32 499 585
380sandrine.vanderghinst@worldline.com
Hélène Carlander+33 7 72 25 96
04helene.carlander@worldline.com
About Worldline
Worldline [Euronext: WLN] is the European leader
in the payments and transactional services industry and #4 player
worldwide. With its global reach and its commitment to innovation,
Worldline is the technology partner of choice for merchants, banks
and third-party acquirers as well as public transport operators,
government agencies and industrial companies in all sectors.
Powered by over 20,000 employees in more than 50 countries,
Worldline provides its clients with sustainable, trusted and secure
solutions across the payment value chain, fostering their business
growth wherever they are. Services offered by Worldline in the
areas of Merchant Services; Terminals, Solutions & Services;
Financial Services and Mobility & e-Transactional Services
include domestic and cross-border commercial acquiring, both
in-store and online, highly-secure payment transaction processing,
a broad portfolio of payment terminals as well as e-ticketing and
digital services in the industrial environment. In 2020 Worldline
generated a proforma revenue of 4.8 billion euros.
worldline.com
Worldline’s corporate sense of purpose (“raison
d’être”) is to design and operate leading digital payment and
transactional solutions that enable sustainable economic growth and
reinforce trust and security in our societies. We make them
environmentally friendly, widely accessible and support social
transformation.
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