Universal Registration Document 2021

Chapter 3. Governance and compensation

  • quantifiable individual non-financial criteria corresponding to 25% of the overall weight of the criteria in order to value the implementation of key strategic actions which will yield long-term effects on the Groupe’s development:
  Weight of the criteria Acquisition scale
Non-financial quantifiable individual criteria In % In € Level of achievement of the Performance (P) %
Implementation of the Epsilon Product Plan 15% €300,000 P ≥ Target 100%
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The assessment of the progress of the CSR policy with regard to the 2025 trajectory will be made on the following priorities: 10% €200,000 Indicative checkpoints 100%
  • Diversity, Equality and Inclusion: the trajectory aims for 45% women among key executives in 2025 with an indicative checkpoint of 41% at the end of 2021
5% €100,000 Indicative checkpoints 100%
  • Combating climate change: the trajectory aims for 100% of energy from direct renewable sources by 2030 with an indicative checkpoint of around +8% at the end of 2021 compared to 2020
5% €100,000 Indicative checkpoints 100%
Total (financial and non-financial criteria) 100% €2,000,000    
Results - Criteria linked to the financial performance of Publicis Groupe
Objectives Results Objective achievement level Amount of variable compensation to be paid
Organic growth Organic growth

Results

Growth of 10.0% > the Target adopted in

March 2021
Organic growth

Objective achievement level

Achieved

Organic growth

Amount of variable compensation to be paid

€500,000

Operating margin Operating margin

Results

With an operating margin of 17.5%, Publicis Groupe is number one in its peer group.

Operating margin

Objective achievement level

Achieved

Operating margin

Amount of variable compensation to be paid

€500,000

Change in current diluted headline earnings per share for the Groupe Change in current diluted headline earnings per share for the Groupe

Results

The target was 50% achieved. Publicis Groupe ranks 2nd in the peer group (1)

Change in current diluted headline earnings per share for the Groupe

Objective achievement level

Partially Achieved

Change in current diluted headline earnings per share for the Groupe

Amount of variable compensation to be paid

€100,000

Total Shareholder Return (TSR) Total Shareholder Return (TSR)

Results

TSR: 17.2

Total Shareholder Return (TSR)

Objective achievement level

Achieved

Total Shareholder Return (TSR)

Amount of variable compensation to be paid

€300,000

(1) For headline diluted EPS, insofar as the Groupe does not carry out annual share buy backs (decision of the Supervisory Board over which Arthur Sadoun has no control) and given that our competitors carried out share buybacks in 2021, it would have been unfair to penalize Arthur Sadoun. The Supervisory Board therefore decided to calculate the criterion related to diluted EPS by restating these items.