2015 Activity and Sustainable Development Report4

3 of Rexel s entrepreneurial culture. Furthermore, 77% of them also state that they work with a great team , reconfirming the solidity of Rexel s collaborative culture. In general terms, the results of the 2015 survey are stable compared with those of 2013. The most improved category is the company s image: respondents feel they are well informed about Rexel s ethical commitments (81%) and its core values, representing an improvement of 10 bps with respect to the previous survey on this point. In the engagement category, the statement I fully apply my skills and abilities at work received 90% favorable responses, a rate that exceeds the HP (High Performance) standard. For the first time, the 2015 survey also included two open questions. To What would you change in your company and how? 24% of the 9,911 employees who responded to the question mentioned the need to be more customer-centric. To the second question, How can we make the company more customer focused? 8,758 employees made suggestions for

improvement that could provide the basis for action plans in various countries. New in 2015, dedicated presentation tools known as management snapshot reports were sent to managers in order to assist them in presenting the local results to their employees, thus fostering dialogue and team motivation.

TEAM SPIRIT AT WORK Organized for the first time between May and September 2015, the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) confirms the Group s team spirit and dynamism. Bringing employees together around the topic of wellbeing in a fun and original way, the GCC focused on three areas:

physical exercise, eating habits and sleep quality. The principle was simple: participate in a 100-day competition in groups of seven and take at least 10,000 steps every day, like the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends. According to the results of the Satisfaxion15 survey, the countries that participated in the GCC yielded significantly more favorable responses than average to questions relating to wellbeing, one of the pillars of long-term employee sustainable engagement. 65% of participants confirmed that the GCC had improved their energy level post- competition.

Rexel s approach to ethics is a continuous improvement process and is based on principles shared by the Group s 28,000 employees. It helps safeguard the Group s reputation and strengthen its partner s trust, thus contributing to its sustainable growth. The implementation of this policy is supported by the Ethics Guide, which is distributed to all employees and specifies:

the principles and practices of professional ethics at Rexel;

the proper conduct to adopt in various professional situations (including purchasing client relations, gifts, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, diversity, freedom of expression, harassment, etc.).

COMMITTING TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE ENVIRONMENT