2019 Annual financial report

8.1 INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY

8.1.1 Company name and trading name

PPublicis Groupe SA (the “Company”) does business under the trade name Publicis.

8.1.2 Registration place and number, legal entity identifier (LEI)

542 080 601 RCS Paris; APE  code – NAF 7010Z; LEI number: 2138004KW8BV57III342.

8.1.3 Date of incorporation and term

Incorporation date: October 4, 1938.
Term: October 3, 2037, unless extended.

8.1.4 Registered office, legal structure, applicable legislation, jurisdiction, address and telephone number of registered office, website

Publicis Groupe SA is a French limited liability company (société anonyme) with a Management Board and a Supervisory Board, governed by articles L. 225-57 to L. 225-93 of the French Commercial Code.

The Company’s registered office is located at 133, avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France. The telephone number of the Company’s registered office is +33 (0) 1 44 43 70 00.

The website of Publicis Groupe SA is accessible at: www.publicisgroupe.com. The information on said website does not form part of this Universal Registration Document, unless incorporated by reference.

8.1.5 Financial year

From January 1 to December 31 each year

8.1.6 Deeds of incorporation and bylaws 

Corporate purpose (article 2 of the bylaws )

The Company’s corporate purposes are to: 

• produce and derive added value in any manner from advertising and publicity in any format or of any type; 
• organize shows and radio or television broadcasts, set up radio, television and other programming, use movie theaters, recording or broadcasting studios and projection and viewing rooms, publish paper documents and edit music, sketches, scripts and theater productions; and 
• more generally, all commercial, financial, industrial and real and intangible property transactions of any type relating directly or indirectly to the above in order to foster the development and growth of the Company’s business. 

The Company may conduct operations in any country on its behalf or on behalf of third parties, either alone or jointly, with other companies or persons and carry out in any form, directly or indirectly, activities in line with its corporate purpose.

The Company may also acquire interests in any form in any other French or foreign businesses or companies, whatever their corporate purposes.

Management Board (articles 10 to 12 of the bylaws) 

The Management Board oversees Publicis’ management. It is fully empowered to act on the Company’s behalf in all circumstances. These powers may only be exercised within the limit of the corporate purpose and subject to the powers that are by law reserved for the Supervisory Board and Shareholders’ Meetings. The Management Board is appointed by the Supervisory Board and must have at least two but no more than seven members. Each member is appointed for a period of four years and must be a natural person, but need not be a shareholder. Its members may be re-appointed. The terms of office of each Management Board member ends at the Annual Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting following their 75th birthday. The Supervisory Board appoints one of the members of the Management Board as Chair and may appoint one, several or all the other members of the Management Board as Chief Executive Officers

The members of the Management Board may be dismissed either by the Supervisory Board or by a General Shareholders’ Meeting.

Rights attached to each share
(article 8 of the bylaws)

Each share confers the right proportionate to such share to a part of the corporate assets and benefits. The shareholders may be held liable, even with regards to third party, only up to the value of the shares that they hold. Each time that it is necessary to hold several shares to exercise any right, shareholders must be personally responsible for gathering the number of shares required.