2023 Gender Equality Index

Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, France, February 28, 2023

Groupe Beneteau announces for its 3 French subsidiaries their scores relating to the French FY2022 index of equality between women and men:

Construction Navale Bordeaux increases its score by 10 points, from 83 to 93/100
SPBI S.A. releases a score of 89/100 and also progresses by 10 points
BIO Habitat releases a score of 84/100 (index 2022 could not be calculated)

Indicators

In France, the Gender Equality Index measures wage gaps between women and men to end the unjustified pay gaps between women and men.

The five indicators used by the French Government to construct the index and their respective weighting are:

the pay gap
the difference in the distribution of pay increases
the spread of promotions
the percentage of employees receiving a pay increase on their return from maternity leave
the number of women and men in the company top 10 wages

The results obtained by each French subsidiary for each of these 5 indicators are available in the table below.

Indicator	Maximum number of points per indicator	SPBI	Construction Navale Bordeaux	BIO Habitat
1. Pay gap (%)	40	39	38	39
2. Difference in the distribution of pay increases (in % points)	20	20	20	20
3. Promotion gap (in % points)	15	15	15	5
4. Employees receiving a pay increase on their return from maternity leave (%)	15	15	15	15
5. Number of persons from under-represented gender category in the company top 10 wages	10	0	5	5
2023 Gender Index (FY2022)	100	89	93	84

About Groupe Beneteau

Founded in Vendée 140 years ago by Benjamin Bénéteau, Groupe Beneteau is today a world leader in the boating industry. With an international industrial presence spanning 16 production sites and a worldwide commercial network, the Group generated revenue of €1 billion in 2024 and has a workforce of more than 6500 employees mainly in France, United States, Poland, Italy, Portugal, and Tunisia.

True to its mission – Bringing dreams to water – Groupe Beneteau designs and builds boats and services to make every experience on the water truly unique. Through its nine brands, its Boat division offers more than 135 boat models craft to meet the diverse needs and sailing projects of its customers, whether sailing or motoring, monohull or catamaran . Through its Boating Solutions division, the Groupe Beneteau is also involved in services covering daily or weekly boat hire, marinas, the digital sector and financing.