Vetoquinol - Universal Registration Document - 2021

2 Vetoquinol Universal Registration Document 2020 Financial report 43 STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Vetoquinol’s people 2.4.6 Training Number of training hours France Group (including France) Average workforce (in full-time equivalent) 712 FTE 2,424 FTE Total number of training hours 13,731 hours, including 1,256 hours of prevention and safety training 70,805 hours Average number of training hours per employee (in full-time equivalent) 19.3 hours/employee 24.5 hours/employee trained 29.2 hours/employee Rate of employees trained 78.8% not available Vetoquinol continued its training initiatives at Group level and posted a 3.1% increase in the number of training hours provided in 2020. Given the constraints of the health crisis (barrier ges- tures and distancing), it was more difficult to maintain training plans in all our entities. In Europe, there was a 26.9% decrease in training hours compared to 2019. This decrease was mainly due to: • A very high base effect in 2019 due to an exceptional training program for the implementation of a new per- formance management process for Group employees. • The difficulty of maintaining all of the training planned for 2020 because of COVID-19, especially in France: compared with the 18,000 hours of training conducted on average, Vetoquinol SA was only able to conduct 13,700 hours in 2020. Since the health and safety of our employees is para- mount, external face-to-face training sessions were canceled in 2020 due to the exceptional circumstances. Only remote and on-site training were authorized. On-site training was organized in smaller groups to ensure distance. A number of major actions continued, including skills development in production, biotechno- logy, digital marketing and intercultural communication. In the Americas, the number of hours increased signifi- cantly between 2019 and 2020 (by 23.1%) and is clearly linked to the Brazilian subsidiary, which increased its number of training hours fivefold with a sales force training program. There was also an increase of about one-third in hours of training in Mexico, which focused on first aid and civil protection training. There was also an increase in the number of training hours in Asia (by 76.5%), mainly due to India, which launched a vast training program for the sales force. The Indian subsidiary took advantage of the confine- ment period, providing the remote training to about 400 employees. This training represented 77% of India’s training hours. Please also note that training in our skills and perfor- mance assessment tool implemented in 2019 continued in France and in all countries in 2020. In general, training programs have been maintained through the implementation of online training to respect the barrier gestures and physical distancing imposed by the pandemic. On average, across the Group, two-thirds of the training sessions were conducted remotely. Overall for 2020, the average number of hours of training amounts to 29.2 hours of training per employee. This number of hours is much higher than the target Veto- quinol set for itself (20 hours/person/year). Since 2017, Vetoquinol has implemented a Lean mana- gement training program that until 2019 had resulted in the certification of six Green Belt, 21 Yellow Belt and 1 Black Belt employees. In 2020, this program was sus- pended due to the health crisis. 29.2 hours/employee