Regulatory News:
Mercialys (Paris:MERY) has moved up the GRESB* rankings to fourth position in the categories for "listed retail property companies in Europe" and "listed property companies in France".
For its third participation in the GRESB, Mercialys improved its overall score by 3 points, up to 87/100, and retained its Green Star**status. Mercialys is still in the top decile of the global benchmark, ranked 83 out of the 874 companies assessed. These excellent results reflect the Company's commitment to sustainable development and its ability to successfully implement Mery'21, its CSR strategy.
In the GRESB assessment, Mercialys stands out in particular for three aspects. It achieved the highest possible score of 100 for "Policy Disclosure" and "Management", highlighting the Company's public commitment to creating sustainable value and integrating all its stakeholders, as well as the dedication shown by its leaders and managers to implement its proactive and ambitious CSR policy.
The excellent score of 95 for "Building Certification" recognizes the approach to continuously improve environmental performance across its assets. Illustrating this, Mercialys achieved BREEAM-In-Use certification for 21 of its shopping centers in 2017.
*GRESB: the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark is a leading international benchmark that assesses the CSR performance and policies of real estate companies each year
**Green Star: highest category in the GRESB rankings
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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