BIO UV GROUP (EPA:ALTUV) - BIO-UV Group announces its initial rating by Gaïa Ratings, confirming its ESG commitment

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Lunel, 12 December 2019

BIO-UV Group announces its initial rating by Gaïa Ratings, confirming its ESG
commitment

BIO-UV Group (ISIN code: FR0013345493/Ticker: ALTUV), a specialist in water
treatment and disinfection systems, announces its rating by Gaïa Ratings, the
EthiFinance ESG rating agency specialised in the segment of SMEs listed on the
European market.

This rating was undertaken at the initiative of the asset management company
OFI AM which wished to include BIO-UV Group in one of its SRI funds.

"As a shareholder of BIO-UV Group, OFI AM initiated a close dialogue with the
company nearly 18 months ago. Its executive directors were receptive to the
need to improve their extra- financial reporting. Like many small companies,
BIO-UV Group is outside the radar of the major extra-financial rating agencies
and found itself penalised by a lack of communication. We therefore encouraged
them to contact Gaïa Rating for an assessment of their ESG performance and we
congratulate them on this initial rating which is well above their peers", said
Bénédicte Bazi, SRI Analyst and Development at OFI AM.

With a general rating of 57/100, BIO-UV Group is ranked 30th among the 130
companies with revenue of less than EUR150 million (for an average rating in
the category of 35/100). The excellent rating of 70/100 obtained on the social
aspect even ranks the company 19th on this specific criterion (for an average
rating in the category of 36/100).

"We are very proud of this rating which reflects our natural commitment to ESG
and particularly environmental themes through our water disinfection business.
It places us from the outset in the first quartile of our category. It also
enables us to be more visible among asset management companies, which are
increasingly using these criteria in their investment decision-making process,"
added Benoit Gillmann, CEO and founder of BIO-UV Group

The full report is available on the company's website at the following address:
https://www.bio-uv.com/investisseurs.

About Gaïa Ratings
Founded in 2004, the EthiFinance agency has put in place its own reference
framework in order to assess, on exclusively quantitative bases, the ESG
performance of small/medium-sized enterprises, providing analysts and investors
with a rigorous support tool for their Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
decisions.

About BIO-UV GROUP
Created in 2000, BIO-UV Group designs, manufactures and markets innovative
ultraviolet water treatment systems. The range of equipment developed by the
Group is aimed at several markets:

- The recreative market, on which BIO-UV Group is no. 1 in France and in Europe
for UV water treatment in residential swimming pools, and for the commercial
and semi commercial community pool dechlorination market;

- The municipal and industrial markets, on which specific ranges have been
developed for applications such as: purification, effluent treatment,
wastewater reuse, process waters, aquaculture, etc.;

- The ballast water treatment market, which has benefited since 2017 from a new
international regulation requiring all ships to have equipment to treat their
ballast water.
Since acquiring the Scottish company Triogen Holdings Limited in September
2019, BIO-UV Group has completed its offering with advanced ozone and advanced
oxidation (AOP) water disinfection technologies for recreational applications,
aquariums and aquaculture.
BIO-UV Group has been granted the "Innovative Company" label by Bpifrance and
is eligible for the French "PEA-PME" investment scheme.

Contacts:

BIO-UV Group
+33 (0)4 99 13 39 11
invest@bio-uv.com

ACTIFIN, financial communications
Alexandre COMMEROT
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 11
biouv@actifin.fr

Press relations
Isabelle DRAY
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 29
idray@actifin.fr

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