SOLOCAL (EPA:LOCAL) - SOLOCAL strengthens its Financial Management

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22/10/2018 18:02

PRESS RELEASE
Boulogne-Billancourt, 22 October 2018

SOLOCAL STRENGTHENS ITS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

With the following nominations:

* Julie Gualino-Daly as SoLocal's Director for Treasury and Financing
* Jérôme Fievet as SoLocal's Director for Accounting and Consolidation
* Romain Pollak as SoLocal's Director for Financial Control

Jean-Jacques Bancel, Group Chief Financial Officer and a member of SoLocal's
Executive Committee, declared:

"With Julie Gualino-Daly, Director for Treasury and Financing, Jérôme Fievet,
Director for Accounting and Consolidation and Romain Pollak, Director for
Financial Control joining us at SoLocal, we will be able to refine the way we
steer the company financially. In addition to the acknowledged financial
expertise they have developed, they have an in-depth knowledge of the
challenges facing companies undergoing transformation. These are so many
advantages when it comes to successfully working to reinforce SoLocal's
financial strength. Together they will make a major contribution to
implementing our 'SoLocal 2020' company project, one that we are pursuing with
vigour, enthusiasm and determination. "

Julie Gualino-Daly, SoLocal's Director for Treasury and Financing

Julie Gualino-Daly is responsible for ensuring SoLocal's financial solidity by
rigorous cash-flow management and optimising the means the company uses to
finance its operations. She is in charge of relations with debt holders and the
various rating agencies.

A graduate of the EM Lyon / ESC Program, Julie Gualino-Daly kicked off her
career at EY in 2001 where she handled audits on start-ups and intermediate
size companies. In 2005 she joined BNP Paribas to work on structured financing
solutions in the media and telecoms sector where she completed the financing
packages for LBOs, projects and debt restructuring for a variety of French
media groups. In 2012 she joined Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (EDRAM)
as high yield bond funds manager where she invested in debt issued by some one
hundred European companies with ratings below BBB-. Throughout her career,
Julie has developed a wide-ranging expertise in financing private debt and debt
traded on the markets, in highly varied sectors involving European companies.

Jérôme Fievet, SoLocal's Director for Accounting and Consolidation

Jérôme Fievet guarantees the booking of financial operations and the
production of corporate and consolidated accounts for SoLocal in compliance
with the requirements of SBF 120 listed companies. Jérôme also supervises all
of the operations relating to collecting outstanding customer balances and
expense accounts.

Holder of a specialist Finance & Audit Master II degree, Jérôme was
previously responsible for financially auditing major SBF 120 and CAC 40
companies at EY, in charge of coordinating and heading audits from both the
financial oversight and internal controls levels as well as producing the audit
findings for the relevant financial departments. Jérôme was especially tasked
with major international companies (ones with over 100 subsidiaries in some
cases) in a variety of sectors ranging from retail to chemicals: LVMH, ARKEMA,
SEPHORA, H&M, ERAMET, etc. Moreover, Jérôme undertook projects to implement
internal procedures and supervised the production of review summaries and
action plan follow-up.

Romain Pollak, SoLocal's Director for Financial Control

Romain Pollak heads the financial control department, working with all of the
teams at SoLocal. He guarantees the accuracy of our financial performance
metrics by implementing and monitoring key financial and operational
indicators. This together with budgetary forecasting work guarantees that
SoLocal's main financial indicators remain in balance.

An HEC graduate, Romain Pollak joined General Electric (GE) in 2002 via the
Financial Management Program (FMP) and over the next 16 years held a variety of
strategic positions within financial management, especially at the GE
Healthcare EMEA division. His expertise is recognised in financial performance
management in a commercial environment (sales, margins and cash-flow). In 2011
he was promoted to CFO for the Digital business at the GE Healthcare EMEA
division, then in 2013 he went on to head Financial Control at GE Healthcare
Europe, in a context of in-depth restructuring. Since 2017 he was tasked with
transforming the financial control function for Sales and Cash activities
across all GE divisions.

À propos de SoLocal Group

SoLocal Group ambitionne de devenir le partenaire, local, digital de confiance
des entreprises pour accélérer leur croissance. Pour réussir cette
transformation, il s'appuie sur ses six atouts fondamentaux, pour certains
uniques en France : des médias à très fortes audiences, une data
géolocalisée puissante, des plateformes technologiques évolutives
(scalables), une couverture commerciale dans toute la France, des partenariats
privilégiés avec les GAFAM et de nombreux talents (experts en matière de
data, de développement, de digital marketing, etc.). Les activités de SoLocal
Group sont structurées autour de deux axes. D'un côté, une gamme de
services digitaux " full web & apps " sur tous les terminaux (PC, mobiles,
tablettes et assistants personnels), proposés sous forme de packs et
d'abonnements, (" Digital Presence ", " Digital Advertising ", " Digital
Website ", " Digital Solutions " et " Print to Digital "), et intégrant un
service de coaching digital, pour faciliter la réussite des entreprises. De
l'autre, des médias propriétaires (PagesJaunes et Mappy) qui sont au coeur du
quotidien des Français et leur offrent une expérience utilisateur
enrichissante et différenciante. Avec plus de 460 000 clients partout en
France et 2,4 milliards de visites sur ses médias, le Groupe a généré en
2017 un chiffre d'affaires de 756 millions d'euros (sous IAS 18), dont 84% sur
Internet, et se classe ainsi parmi les premiers acteurs européens en termes de
revenus publicitaires sur Internet. SoLocal Group est cotée sur Euronext Paris
(LOCAL).
Les informations sont accessibles sur www.solocalgroup.com.

CONTACTS PRESSE
DELPHINE PENALVA - +33 (0)1 46 23 35 31 - dpenalva@solocal.com
EDWIGE DRUON - +33 (0)1 46 23 37 56 - edruon@solocal.com
ALEXANDRA KUNYSZ - +33 (0)1 46 23 47 45 - akunysz@solocal.com

CONTACTS INVESTISSEURS
NATHALIE ETZENBACH-HUGUENIN- +33 (0)1 46 23 48 63 - netzenbach@solocal.com
ALIMA LELARGE LEVY - 33 (0)1 46 23 37 72 - alelargelevy@solocal.com

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