Mercialys Recognized in the Real Estate Industry's Top Rankings

Regulatory News:

Mercialys (Paris:MERY) has been recognized for its commitment to sustainable development issues by the GRESB and has won an EPRA Gold Award for the quality of its financial reporting.

For its first participation in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB*), Mercialys achieved "Green Star” status and was ranked 2nd in the Retail category for France. Each year, this benchmark assesses the CSR performance and policies of real estate companies. This outstanding recognition highlights the relevance of Mercialys’ CSR strategy and the quality of its results in this field.

Alongside this, for the second year running, Mercialys has received an EPRA** Gold Award, rewarding the quality of its financial reporting. This confirms the Group’s commitment to the financial community to implementing international best practices, while further strengthening its trust-based relationships with analysts and investors.

* The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is an international organization that assesses the sustainability performance of real estate companies worldwide each year. In 2016, over 700 companies were assessed, representing 66,000 assets with a combined gross value of 2.8 billion dollars.

** The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) works to promote, develop and represent listed European real estate companies. The EPRA publishes Best Practices Recommendations (BPRs) that define financial and sustainability reporting guidelines for listed real estate companies.

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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, 2016, Mercialys had a portfolio of 2,240 leases, representing a rental value of Euro 176.8 million on an annualized basis.
At June 30, 2016, it owned properties with an estimated value of Euro 3.7 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, 2016, there were 92,049,169 shares outstanding.

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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 shelf registration document available at www.mercialys.com for the year ended December 31, 2015 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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