2020 Annual Financial Report

Chapter 6 : 2020 Consolidated financial statements

Note 32 Information on related-party transactions

/Transactions with associates
 

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

 

Revenue

Expenses

Revenue

Expenses

Viva Tech(1)

Viva Tech

(1)

December 31, 2020

2

Viva Tech

(1)

December 31, 2019

-

12-
Burrell Communications Group

Burrell Communications Group

December 31, 2020

2

Burrell Communications Group

December 31, 2019

-

-2

Total

Total

December 31, 2020

4

Total

December 31, 2019

-

12

2

(1) Joint-venture between Publicis and Les Échos Solutions.

 

December 31, 2020

December 31, 2019

 

Receivables/Loans

Liabilities

Receivables/Loans

Liabilities

OnPoint

OnPoint

December 31, 2020

14

OnPoint

December 31, 2019

1

141
Viva Tech (1)

Viva Tech

(1)

December 31, 2020

1

Viva Tech

(1)

December 31, 2019

-

-2
ZAG

ZAG

December 31, 2020

5

ZAG

December 31, 2019

-

5-
I7 Sapient

I7 Sapient

December 31, 2020

-

I7 Sapient

December 31, 2019

-

2-
Burrell

Burrell

December 31, 2020

-

Burrell

December 31, 2019

1

-1

Other

Other

December 31, 2020

-

Other

December 31, 2019

-

1-

Total

Total

December 31, 2020

20

Total

December 31, 2019

2

22

4

(1) Joint-venture between Publicis and Les Échos Solutions.

Other related-party transactions

Weborama, a company specializing in the collection of marketing and digital advertising data, is indirectly owned by Ycor, in which Mr. Maurice Lévy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Groupe, has an interest. Weborama provides Epsilon, a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, with access to its BigSea behavioral database (in France), its NLP (Natural Language Processing) platform in the USA, as well as associated maintenance services and strategy consulting services. The cost of these services in financial year 2020 amounted to euro 6 million.

Compensation of managers

Managers include individuals who were members of the Supervisory Board or Management Board, at the reporting date or during the year ended.

(in millions of euros)

2020

2019

Total gross compensation(1)

Total gross compensation(1)

2020

(11)

Total gross compensation(1)

2019

(12)

Share-based payment(2)

Share-based payment(2)

2020

(2)

Share-based payment(2)

2019

(1)

(1) Compensation, bonuses, indemnities, attendance fees and benefits in kind paid during the year.

(2) Expense recognized in the income statement under the Publicis Groupe stock option and free share plans.

In addition, the total accounting provision as of December 31, 2020 for post-employment benefits and other long-term benefits for Senior Management amounted to euro 1 million. This figure was euro 1 million at December 31, 2019.