Specialist committees

To ensure the proper functioning of the Group, the Board of Directors relies on the opinions and recommendations of the specialist committees.


Strategic Committee

Its main responsibility is to prepare the strategy guidelines for the Board’s approval. 

Chairman:
  • Patrick Ricard
Members:
  • François Gérard,
  • Rafaël Gonzalez-Gallarza,
  • Danièle Ricard.

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee’s main responsibilities are to oversee the Group’s accounting operations, to monitor the efficiency of the internal control systems and to examine any issue of a financial or accounting nature submitted to the Committee by the Board of Directors.


Members:

  • Michel Chambaud, Independant Director,
  • Nicole Bouton, Independant Director
  • Wolfgang Colberg, Independant Director
  • François Gérard.

 


Remuneration Committee

The Remuneration Committee’s main task is to propose to the Board of Directors the terms and conditions and the amounts of remuneration and all the benefits granted to Executive Directors. The Committee also proposes to the Board of Directors the general policy for awarding stock options, plans for free allocation of shares by the Company, and all measures aimed at promoting employee share ownership.

Members:

  • Jean-Dominique Comolli, Independant Director
  • Lord Douro, Independant Director,
  • Gérald Frère, Independant Director

Appointments Committee

The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Patrick Ricard, is associated with the thought process regarding new appointments. 

The Appointments Committee’s main responsibilities include studying, on behalf of the Board of Directors, all measures aimed at selecting new Directors, deciding on the procedure to be used to look for new members to reappoint Directors and from time to time verifying compliance with independence criteria. It also ensures the continuity of the Company’s managing bodies by preparing a succession plan for both the Executive Directors and other Directors.


 Members: 

  • Jean-Dominique Comolli, Independant Director
  • Lord Douro, Independant Director
  • Danièle Ricard.    


- 1975: merger of the Pernod and Ricard companies
- 19,000 employees in more than 70 countries worldwide
- 113 production plants