Groupe Roullier

Extra-Financial Performance Report 2020 Groupe Roullier A GROUP WITH REAL COMMITMENT Extra-Financial Performance Report 2020 Groupe Roullier A GROUP WITH REAL COMMITMENT S o what are our most important challenges? Implementing the principles of sustainable, efficient agriculture, optimising the nutritional quality of our pastry products, and ensuring that the products created by our business lines have the ability to benefit the environment. To achieve that, these projects must be driven by a stakeholder ecosystem that allows us to respond collectively to our shared challenges. At the heart of this commitment is our Global Innovation Center (Centre Mondial de l’Innovation Roullier or CMI Roullier), which works effectively to accelerate the performance of all Group subsidiaries, whose teams have a daily commitment to improving and strengthening the natural functions specific to soils, plants and animals. Our commitment to working as an integrated ecosystem means that, beyond and around the CMI Roullier, we work closely with the international scientific community and listen very closely indeed to grassroots expectations as the basis for delivering innovative solutions that meet the real needs of our industrial, livestock farming and arable farming customers. An innovation strategy for an enlightened agriculture that respects natural balances Aware of the tenuous link between the focus of our innovation work and the major environmental and societal challenges of our century, our commitment to investment in research has never wavered. Operating at the point where academic research meets applied research, the CMI Roullier, opened at Saint-Malo in 2015, has allowed us to change up a gear in terms of innovation and pool R&D projects previously developed in different parts of the world. For example, the investments made in 2020 have increased our analytical capabilities in microbiology, and expanded our team of algology researchers. Our business began with algae, and these plants still represent one of the most promising ways forward for the future. The enormous resource represented by the minerals they draw from the marine environment mean that they have countless beneficial effects on plant growth, animal nutritional efficiency and quality, health nutrition and cosmetics. The vast majority of our research is aimed at boosting nutritional efficiency, at the same time as shrinking the environmental footprint of farms by reducing farm inputs and discharges. The benefits delivered by the products we offer to farmers include reductions in their overall GHG emissions, lower levels of surface water pollution, a higher level of efficiency that enables them to reduce product dosages, our sourcing of raw materials from the circular economy wherever possible, and support for organic farming productivity. Inventing new solutions for monitoring animal welfare Animal welfare is a key issue for the innovation teams at Groupe Roullier. For example, our Research and Development work on improving feed assimilation through higher levels of digestibility has a direct effect on animal health by reducing rumen acidity, boosting populations of intestinal and ruminal flora and improving the quality of animal bedding. During 2020, TIMAC AGRO launched its new “Actisan 360” litter dryer, which improves animal welfare by simultaneously reducing moisture, managing bedding pH and reducing ammonia levels in farm buildings. This innovative product is based on pathologies with direct links to the farm animal environment. Also during 2020, Phosphea developed a number of macro-mineral-based product ranges that showcase its innovation expertise. The Performance range of specific ingredients tailored to the needs of individual species and the Animal Nutrition industry, and the Evolution range, which contains innovative natural ingredients, both deliver effective responses to the major challenges of the sector: farm performance and animal health and wellbeing. To deliver on its ambition to further expand these ranges in 2021, Phosphea has put these challenges at the very heart of its innovation strategy. Optimising product traceability and nutritional quality Our Food Industry companies are engaged in a continual process of developing innovations that respond to the changing demands of consumers for simpler recipes and greater transparency over ingredients. Their pastry chefs work as a team on a daily basis to reduce the use of all types of additive, limit the number of ingredients and promote naturalness in their recipes; by applying the principles of the Clean Label scheme to the vast majority of products. As part of this multi-year process, they have given their commitment to favouring certain ingredients and prohibiting the use of others. At Pâtisseries Gourmandes, Clean Label accreditation means respecting six fundamental principles: using no hydrogenated fats, glucose-fructose syrup, palm oil, preservatives, artificial colours and flavours, at the same time as simplifying lists of ingredients. For its madeleines, Maison Colibri has moved to using an alternative to the diphosphates normally found in baking powder. Similarly, by working with naturally colouring fruit powders, such as raspberry powder, they have ceased using two particular synthetic colouring agents in some of their recipes without compromising their distinctive visual appeal. These innovations mean that their pastries products are now 100% free of colouring agents, are made using baking powder containing zero diphosphates, and - of course - are always palm oil free. These products must be healthy and delicious in all senses of those words in order to satisfy the most demanding consumers, and be made using ingredients that bring them as close as possible to the ultimate goal of ‘homemade’. Our contribution to sustainable, efficient agriculture #1 SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS, WE HAVE PUT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE HEART OF OUR RESEARCH PROJECTS TO IDENTIFY THE PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL HELP US SUCCEED IN MEETING THE CURRENT AND FUTURE MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING SOCIETY. 3 new products - Actisan 360 (France), Energeo (France) and INRIZZA (Brazil) - that contribute to SDGs 2 and 12 279 research partnerships worldwide (133 of which involve the CMI Roullier) 161 dedicated innovation staff 6 patents filed, all related to sustainable development 22 scientific publications, including 20 related to sustainable development 25 24