Insight by... Anthony Francheterre — Chief Executive Officer of Solina, Europe’s leading supplier of savoury food ingredients that joined the Ardian Buyout portfolio in December 2015 “We’ve been doing annual ESG This was an important step in audits and roadmaps with Ardian aligning people because some are since 2016, which have been very more passionate about sustainability useful for giving us a good view of than others. We now have reset our priorities and progress. But by our company mission We make the end of 2019 we felt we needed to food matter and built a set of enter a new phase and take a more KPIs across our five key areas: global approach. Using Ardian’s products, partners, people, planet network, we identified experts to help and performance. us build a framework that would put impact and sustainability at the heart The major benefits of this of our business. project for me are in employee engagement and recruitment, We formed a gender-balanced the way our approach resonates group of 20 people of different ages, with our customers and the way including our executive committee, it has boosted our innovation to work on the framework and take program and forced us to be part in the workshops. bolder, to think outside the box.” Ardian’s standing in the global private investment industry remains strong. For the second year, we achieved maximum scores of A+ in every area of activity we report on to the UN PRI, the world’s leading benchmark for responsible investors. 2020 ACTIVITY REPORT 17