L'Oréal

AGM Information • Apr 20, 2016

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS' MEETING OF APRIL 20TH , 2016

• Appointment as Director of Mrs Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch and Mrs Eileen Naughton
• Renewal of the tenure as Director of Mr Jean-Pierre Meyers, Mr Jean-Victor Meyers and Mr Bernard Kasriel
• Approval of a dividend of €3.10 per share up by +14.8%
• Wide approval of all the resolutions submitted to the Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of L'Oréal shareholders was held in Paris, on Wednesday, April 20th , 2016, 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 2015;
• decided on the distribution of a dividend of €3.10 per share. This dividend is increased to €3.41 for shares that have been continuously registered for at least 2 years. Dividend payment date: Tuesday, May 3 rd , 2016;
• appointed two new Directors, Mrs Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch and Mrs Eileen Naughton for a four-year term, bringing thus the percentage of women on the Board to 46%;
• renewed the tenure as Directors of Mr Jean-Pierre Meyers, Mr Jean-Victor Meyers and Mr Bernard Kasriel, for a four-year term.

The Board of Directors' meeting, held at the close of the Annual General Meeting, decided, pursuant to the authorisation voted by the Annual General Meeting on April 20th , 2016, on the cancellation of 3,202,500 shares acquired within the scope of the share buyback programme decided by the Board of Directors on February 11th , 2016.

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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.loreal-finance.com website.

"This news release does not constitute an offer to s ell, or a s olicitation of an offer t o buy L'Oréal shares. If you wish to obt ain more comprehensive information about L'Oréal, please refer to the public documents registered in France with t he Aut orité des Marchés Financiers , also available in English on our Internet site www.loreal-financ e.com.

This news release may contain s ome forward -looking statements. Although t he Company considers that thes e statements are bas ed on reasonable hypotheses at the dat e of publication of t his release, they are by their nature subject t o risks and uncertainties which c ould cause actual results to differ mat erially from those indic ated or projected in these statements."

Contacts at L'ORÉAL (switchboard: 01.47.56.70.00)

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Tel.: 01 47 56 83 02 Tel.: 01 47 56 86 82 Tel.: 01 47 56 76 71

Mr Jean Régis CAROF Mrs Françoise LAUVIN Mrs Stephanie CARSON-PARKER jean-regis.carof@loreal.com francoise.lauvin@loreal.com stephanie.carsonparker@loreal.com

For further information, please contact your bank, stockbroker or financial institution (I.S.I.N. code: FR0000120321), and co nsult your usual newspapers or magazines or the Internet site for shareholders and investors, www.loreal-finance.com,the L'Oréal Finance app or call the tollfree number from France: 0.800.66.66.66.