Worldline joins the TOP 5 list of the most sustainable companies within its sector in Europe following an extra-financial assessment by Vigeo Eiris

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transaction services, announces that it has recently joined the restricted TOP 5 of the most sustainable companies of the Software services & IT sector in Europe assessed by the rating agency Vigeo Eiris.

At a global level, the rating places Worldline at 6th position within its industry, from a total of 215 assessed companies. For its second evaluation, Worldline achieved an 8-point improvement compared to 2017, based on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria calculated over 6 domains – Environment, Human Resources, Human Rights, Community Involvement, Business Behavior and Corporate Governance.

This new recognition from Vigeo Eiris highlights the maturity of Worldline’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy, which is strongly supported by its TRUST 2020 ambition, and its exemplary practices which consistently address the majority of the most material sustainability challenges of the industry. Worldline has improved its overall performance in this year’s ratings, achieving particularly strong scores on key domains including Human Rights, Human Resources, Community involvement and Environment, which all ranked above sector-average.

For example, the 60/100 score achieved by Worldline in the Environment pillar clearly highlights the company’s efforts to strengthen its actions in the fight against climate change and to accelerate its transformation to become a low-carbon company. As part of its environmental strategy, Worldline has made a special commitment to:

· reduce its carbon intensity by 2% per year

· double the quota of renewable energies in its energy consumption

· extend the ISO 14001 certification to all its data centers and sites with more than 500 employees

· reach carbon neutrality for all company activities by 2020.

In relation to the Social pillar, Worldline has demonstrated an advanced performance with a score of a 62/100. This reflects the actions successfully undertaken by Worldline as part of its responsible employer strategy. Indeed, Worldline is firmly convinced that its staff is its best asset to reach its current and future business goals, as demonstrated by the advanced 92/100 score for the career management and promotion of employability. Consequently, the company has implemented a wide range of learning & development, internal mobility and career opportunities and programs to ensure its employees’ longer term development, motivation and employability. Furthermore, Worldline has achieved a score of 72/100 for the Human Rights domain for its strong and long-term commitments in favor of the freedom of association and expression, the right to privacy and for the non-discrimination.

The improved Vigeo Eiris assessment also enables Worldline to have a better focus on areas of improvement and to adapt and progress its CSR roadmap and priorities. These areas of improvement are focused on the responsible management of reorganizations (score of 27/100), responsible lobbying (score of 12/100), the management of the environmental impact of personnel transportation, respect and management of working hours, improving health and safety conditions and corporate governance. Positive and practical actions have already been implemented within Worldline, particularly within the areas of employees’ awareness on work/life balance and the implementation of a global health and safety policy.