L'Oréal

AGM Information • Apr 22, 2011

Clichy, Friday, April 22nd, 2011 – 5:45 p.m.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF APRIL 22nd, 2011

¾ All the resolutions submitted to the Annual General Meeting were approved by a large majority

• ¾ Renewal of the tenure as Directors of:
• − Mrs Liliane Bettencourt,
• − Mrs Annette Roux,
• − Mr Charles-Henri Filippi.

¾ Approval of a dividend of €1.80, up by +20%

The Annual General Meeting of L'Oréal shareholders was held in Paris, on Friday, April 22nd, 2011, for the first time 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 2010
• decided on the payment of a dividend of €1.80 per share, which will be payable as from Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
• renewed the tenure of three 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 offer to buy L'Oréal shares. If you wish to obtain more comprehensive information about L'Oréal, please refer to the public documents registered in France with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, also available in English on our Internet site www.loreal-finance.com.

This news release may contain some forward-looking statements. Although the Company considers that these statements are based on reasonable hypotheses at the date of publication of this release, they are by their nature subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated 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

Mr. Jean-Régis CAROF Mrs. Françoise LAUVIN Mrs. Stéphanie CARSON-PARKER jcarof@dgaf.loreal.com flauvin@dgaf.loreal.com scarsonparker@dgc.loreal.com

For more information, please contact your bank, broker or financial institution (I.S.I.N. code: FR0000120321), and consult your 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.