Danone: Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet to join Danone’s Board of Directors
10 Dicembre 2021 - 5:45PM
Danone: Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet to join Danone’s Board of
Directors
Press Release – Paris, December 10, 2021
Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet to join
Danone’s Board of Directors
Danone is pleased to announce that Valérie
Chapoulaud-Floquet was appointed to join its Board of Directors
starting from March 1, 2022, replacing Isabelle Seillier who
decided to step down for personal reasons as from December 31,
2021.
This is a first step in Danone’s overhaul of its
Board of Directors, which will lead the Company to renew the
totality of its Board of Directors by 2023 – except the positions
held by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer and the two
Directors representing Employees.
Gilles Schnepp, Chairman of the Board
said:
“We are pleased to welcome Valérie
Chapoulaud-Floquet to Danone’s Board of Directors. She brings
extensive and undisputed global FMCG expertise and CEO-experience
to Danone. We thank Valérie for her engagement and look forward to
working together. On behalf of the entire Board, I would like to
extend our warmest thanks to Isabelle Seillier for her active
involvement in the Board’s work over the last 10 years. Her
expertise and understanding of financial markets, her determination
as well as her unwavering support to Danone have been great assets
to the Board.
The decision announced today reflects the
determination of the Board of Directors in implementing change at
Danone. Over the next few months, we will continue to progress on
the overhaul of the Board, proposing several new names before the
2022 Shareholders’ Meeting.
We will also host – together with Antoine de
Saint-Affrique, Juergen Esser and the Executive Committee – a
Capital Market Event on March 8, 2022, a key milestone in putting
Danone back on a sustainable shareholder value creation path.”
APPENDIX
Danone Board overhaul –
Reminder
On July 29, 2021, Danone announced the complete
overhaul of its Board of Directors: all current Directors – with
the exception of Gilles Schnepp, Antoine de Saint-Affrique and the
two Directors representing Employees – will be leaving the Board of
Directors by the 2023 Shareholders’ Meeting.
In the meantime, Danone will propose the
election of new, externally-recruited Directors, with the objective
of constituting a more independent and compact Board of Directors
with the right blend of FMCG-experience, capabilities and
perspectives.
Biographies
Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet is
the former Chief Executive Officer of Rémy Cointreau (2014-2019).
She spent 24 years at L'Oréal where she held numerous Sales,
Marketing and General Management positions within the Luxury
Products Division in different countries and regions. After
L’Oréal, and before becoming CEO of Rémy Cointreau, she held
several General Management positions at Louis Vuitton in Asia,
Europe and in North and South America. Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet
now dedicates her time to non-executive directorship, being
involved with two listed companies – Diageo as a Non-Executive
Director since 2021 and Nexstage as an Independent Member of the
Supervisory Board since 2019.
Isabelle Seillier has been a
Director at Danone since 2011. She has been the Global Chairman
Investment Banking for J.P. Morgan since 2019, after having led the
bank’s Investment Banking arm in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
She started her career in Société Générale, in the Sales Department
for options products.
About Danone
(www.danone.com)
Danone is a leading global food and beverage
company building on health-focused and fast-growing categories in 3
businesses: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters and
Specialized Nutrition. With its ‘One Planet. One Health’ frame of
action, which considers the health of people and the planet as
intimately interconnected, Danone aims to inspire healthier and
more sustainable eating and drinking practices. To accelerate this
food revolution and create superior, sustainable, profitable value
for all its stakeholders, Danone has defined nine 2030 Goals, and
paved the way as the first listed company to adopt the “Entreprise
à Mission” status in France. With a purpose to bring health through
food to as many people as possible, and corresponding social,
societal and environmental objectives set out in its articles of
association, Danone commits to operating in an efficient,
responsible and inclusive manner, in line with the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. By 2025, Danone
aims to become one of the first multinational companies to obtain B
Corp™ certification. With more than 100,000 employees, and products
sold in over 120 markets, Danone generated €23.6 billion in sales
in 2020. Danone’s portfolio includes leading international brands
(Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Aptamil, Danette, Danio, Danonino, evian,
Nutricia, Nutrilon, Volvic, among others) as well as strong local
and regional brands (including AQUA, Blédina, Bonafont, Cow &
Gate, Horizon Organic, Mizone, Oikos, Prostokvashino, Silk). Listed
on Euronext Paris and present on the OTCQX market via an ADR
(American Depositary Receipt) program, Danone is a component stock
of leading sustainability indexes including the ones managed by
Vigeo Eiris and Sustainalytics, as well as the Ethibel
Sustainability Index, the MSCI ESG Indexes, the FTSE4Good Index
Series, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, and the Access to
Nutrition Index.
Grafico Azioni Danone (EU:BN)
Storico
Da Mar 2024 a Apr 2024
Grafico Azioni Danone (EU:BN)
Storico
Da Apr 2023 a Apr 2024