Regulatory News:
For its second participation in the Carbon Disclosure Project* (CDP), Mercialys (Paris:MERY) has joined the “A List”, which groups together 126 of the world’s leading companies with the strongest commitments to combating climate change. Mercialys has been upgraded one level this year following its A- score achieved with its first participation in 2017.
In 2018, more than 7,000 companies completed the CDP questionnaire, submitting their “carbon disclosures” to this organization for an independent scientific assessment. This number is up 11% from 2017, with over 50% of the global market capitalization now covered by this initiative.
Mercialys is now one of the top 1% of the world’s leading companies for environmental footprint aspects and this outstanding recognition highlights its commitment to supporting sustainable development.
* Carbon Disclosure Project: international not-for-profit organization that researches the impacts of leading listed companies each year in terms of CO2 emissions and climate change. The CDP issues an annual questionnaire on specific climate issues, which companies volunteer to take part in, and publishes its findings.
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This press release is available on www.mercialys.com
About Mercialys
Mercialys is one of France’s leading real
estate companies, focused exclusively on retail property. At June 30,
2018, Mercialys had a portfolio of 2,130 leases, representing a rental
value of Euro 178 million on an annualized basis.
At June 30, 2018,
it owned properties with an estimated value of Euro 3.8 billion
(including transfer taxes). Mercialys has had “SIIC” real estate
investment trust (REIT) tax status since November 1, 2005 and has been
listed on Euronext Paris Compartment A (ticker: MERY) since its initial
public offering on October 12, 2005. At June 30, 2018, there were
92,049,169 shares outstanding.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This press release contains
certain forward-looking statements regarding future events, trends,
projects or targets. These forward-looking statements are subject to
identified and unidentified risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated in the
forward-looking statements. Please refer to the Mercialys registration
document available at www.mercialys.com
for the year ended December 31, 2017 for more details regarding certain
factors, risks and uncertainties that could affect Mercialys’ business.
Mercialys makes no undertaking in any form to publish updates or
adjustments to these forward-looking statements, nor to report new
information, new future events or any other circumstances that might
cause these statements to be revised.
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