L'Oréal

AGM Information • Apr 17, 2012

Clichy, Tuesday, April 17th , 2012

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF APRIL 17th , 2012

All the resolutions submitted to the Annual General Meeting were approved by a large majority

Appointment as Director of:

• Ms. Christiane Khuene,
• Mr. Paul Bulcke,
• Mr. Jean-Victor Meyers.

Renewal of the tenure as Director of:

• Mr. Bernard Kasriel,
• Mr. Jean-Pierre Meyers.

Approval of a dividend of €2, up by +11%

The Annual General Meeting of L'Oréal shareholders was held in Paris, on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, under the chairmanship of Mr. Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

The Annual General Meeting in particular:

• approved the parent company financial statements and the consolidated financial statements for 2011.
• decided on the payment of a dividend of €2 per share, and therefore, for the first time, of a preferential dividend of €2.20, granted to the shares held in registered form continuously since December 31st , 2009. This dividend will be paid on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012.
• appointed three new Directors, for a 4-year term.
• renewed the tenure of two Directors, for a 4-year term.

The results of the votes are available on the www.loreal-finance.com website. A summary of the AGM will be provided in the next L'Oréal "Letter to Shareholders", available on request and on the www.lorealfinance.com website.

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"This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an of fer to buy L'Oréal shares . If you wish to obtain more c omprehensive information about L'Oréal, please refer to t he public documents registered in France with t he Aut orit é de s Marchés Financiers, als o available in English on our Int ernet site www.loreal-finance.com.

This news release may contain s ome forward -looking statements. Although t he Company considers that these statements are based on reasonable hypotheses at the date of publication of this r elease, they are by their nat ure subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ mat erially from those indicat ed or projected in these statements."

Contacts at L'ORÉAL (switchboard: +33 1 47 56 70 00)

Individual shareholders	Financial analysts and
and market authorities	institutional investors	Journalists

Tel: +33 1 47 56 83 02 Tel: +33 1 47 56 88 58 Tel: +33 1 47 56 76 71 jean-regis.carof@loreal.com françoise.lauvin@loreal.com stephanie.carsonparker@loreal.com

Mr. Jean-Régis CAROF Mrs. Françoise LAUVIN Mrs. Stéphanie CARSON-PARKER

For more information, please contact your bank, broker or financial institution (I.S.I.N. code: FR0000120321), and consult yo ur usual newspapers, and the Internet site for shareholders and investors, http://www.loreal-finance.com, or its mobile version on your cell phone, http://loreal-finance.mobi; alternatively, call +33.1.40.14.80.50.