Universal Registration Document 2025

In addition, with regard to the various pension schemes and other long-term benefits, see Note 23 to the consolidated financial statements for the 2025 financial year for an explanation.

Publicis Groupe’s various stock option and free share plans are detailed in this document in Note 32 to the consolidated financial statements for the 2025 financial year.

The participation of employees in share capital through a range of profit-sharing and incentive plans is explained in Section 8.3.6 of this document.

4.3.9 Focus on employees in the supply chain

In view of the results of the double materiality analysis, Publicis Groupe, which interacts with many stakeholders, has not identified an “affected community” within the meaning of the CSRD and the European ESRS. However, as a corporate citizen and engaged for decades, in virtually every country. Agencies provide professional support to numerous causes of general interest and to the associations, foundations and organizations that support them. This support helps to increase the visibility and awareness of these causes, sometimes decisively. The direct beneficiaries are the target populations of these organizations. They monitor the progress of their positive impact, year after year, and publish these results in their activity reports.

The intervention framework for the actions of the Groupe, agencies and employees in support of communities is established in the Corporate Sponsorship and Citizenship Charter, publicly available on the Groupe’s website. The managers of the agencies and subsidiaries decide locally with their teams on the causes to be supported or the organizations (not for profit) that will benefit from support from the business lines.

For over 15 years, Create & Impact has been the umbrella program that brings together the Groupe’s actions undertaken with communities and society in general, including pro bono campaigns, as well as volunteering and charitable activities. Create & Impact combines all Groupe commitments with a societal impact, representing an estimated total of euro 41.5 million in 2025. Employees are very active and motivated to help many associations, such as those providing food aid to the underprivileged, providing support to the sick, or supporting educational programs for the underprivileged children. In 2025, agencies contributed to 640 projects.

The nature of the contributions made by agencies as part of Create & Impact has moved towards charitable activities involving volunteer employees but with a lower financial value than the pro bono campaigns. All activities carried out within the context of Create & Impact have a direct impact on populations, on local and neighboring communities, and on regional economic, social and environmental development, since there is a strong proximity between the agencies and the causes they support. All of the activities included in Create & Impact have been monitored for the last ten years, in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in order to better assess their direct impact (see the CSR section of the Groupe’s website).

Quarterly reporting to monitor these actions more regularly is part of the Groupe’s commitments made in 2020 to promote social justice. In this respect, USD 35 million has been invested by Publicis Media US (APX Content Ventures) since 2021 as part of commitments made within the Once And For All Coalition to provide long-term support through content, media and content creator aid for different audiences.

Also worth mentioning is Plowshare in the United States, a unique agency within the Groupe, which works with associations, NGOs and US federal agencies in the context of causes of general interest (health, safety, social impact, etc.). Plowshare can thus obtain significant national visibility for these institutions, by better optimizing the donations of space offered by traditional and digital media.

The Publicis Foundation: in the United States, as part of the #WorkingWithCancer program, the Publicis Foundation’s mission is to support actions to combat the stigma of cancer in the workplace. The objective is to rally companies to advocate #WorkingWithCancer, to continue working with organizations that are experts in the subject, and to mobilize widely so that general awareness-raising promotes change in the world of work on this subject. It provides companies with various tools to support them in their own approach. It is also in contact with the various institutions that are associated with the program. In 2025, 5,000 companies joined this advocacy.