Value creation

To conduct our business and carry out our operations, in 2016 we rely on:

• 102,168 employees.
• A network of 140,000 suppliers. 
• Investors, of which 87.2% are institutional investors, 7.9% individual shareholders and 4.9% employees.

Total has generated in 2016 149.7 billion US dollars in revenue, for an adjusted net income of 8.3 billion US dollars, and we reinvest a portion of our revenue as follows:

• Gross capital expenditure of 20.5 billion US dollars.
• 1.05 billion US dollars on R&D.
• 1.26 billion US dollars on exploration.

Thus we have created in 2016 value for our stakeholders:

• 8.2 billion US dollars in salaries and payroll expenses,
• 2.8 billion US dollars in dividends paid to shareholders,
• about 37 billion US dollars of goods and services purchased from suppliers,
• 428 million US dollars in community spending.