Hermes Opens Fifteenth New Leather Workshop In France

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(Herm s) recently announced that a new leather workshop Manufacture de l Allan has been opened in the eastern part of France near the Swiss border to further improve the production capacity of leather products and alleviate the shortage of supply.

Manufacture de l 'Allan is located in the French Franche-Comt area, covering an area of 62 thousand square feet (5760 square meters). It is the fifteenth leather workshop of Hermes.

In order to provide artistically beautiful working environment for artisans, the new workshop is also equipped with solar panels and rainwater recovery systems, with apple trees, plum trees and cherry trees.

Hermes has always used to build workshops in rural areas, engage locals and conduct internal training, and each workshop can employ up to 300 craftsmen.

Up to now,

There are 3310 leather craftsmen who produce saddles, purses, belts and so on.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, in April 2017, Hermes said it would add third workshops in Franche-Comt, namely, Manufacture de l 'Allan.

Hermes has two workshops in the area, namely Manufacture of Seloncourt, founded in 1996, and was founded in 2016 by Manufacture of H e ricourt.

In the next five years, the three workshops are expected to employ 780 craftsmen, including 260 Manufacture de l 'Allan.

Before announcing the new workshop, Hermes has just completed the website upgrade and launched a new official website in Europe. Besides traditional sales, it also includes some parts.

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It also showcases the French website documentary director Fr e d ric Laffont and Hermes's cooperation project.

Prior to the European website, Hermes has conducted strategic tests on new websites in Canada and the United States. The Chinese website is expected to open at the end of this year.

Hermes, which is famous for its handmade Kelly and Birkin bags and square scarves, has achieved good results in fiscal year 2017. Asian consumers' pursuit of year-on-year sales increased by 9% to 5 billion 500 million euros, a record high, with net profit rising 11% to 1 billion 220 million euro yuan.

Hermes Limited fine leather products attracted customers from all over the world to reach its long waiting list. Analysts pointed out that the shortage of stocks led to a 0.4% decline in sales in the fourth quarter of the 2017 fiscal year.

In addition to the current 15 leather workshop, Hermes said in October 2017 that it planned to add two French production workshops by 2020.

At present, Hermes has a total of 52 production plants, 41 of which are located in France.

Hermes's competitors are also actively expanding the scale of production to cope with the growing demand and fierce competition in the Chinese market, such as Louis Vuitton and Gucci.

Louis Vuitton3 said at the end of the month that it plans to open three new factories in the next two years.

In October 2017, Gucci announced the integration of the supply chain. At the beginning of this year, a design and production plant, Gucci Art Lab, was set up.

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