The French fashion house Hermès continues to strengthen its production capabilities in France in the leather industry. Hermès has announced the laying of the foundation stone for a new leather goods factory to be built in 2025 on the Ile d'Espagnac, in Charente. The number of personnel at the new factory will be 260 craftsmen, - fr.fashionnetwork.com.
This new production site “joins a south-west pool of businesses that already includes the Montbron leather goods factory opened in 2015, Nontron leather goods manufacturing and the Saint-Junien glove and leather goods factory, which has been operating for over 25 years ", says a press release from the French luxury house.
These four sites, located quite close to each other, allow the brand to rely on the know-how of the Hermès training school, which opened in September 2022 in Marton. This training center annually enrolls two classes of 40 students each year, learning the skills of leatherwork and saddlery, cutting and sewing, ensuring the transfer of craft know-how and the culture of the French fashion house. Thus, training for work at the new factory on Epagnac Island has already begun.
It is expected that the factory will be located in a building with an area of 5500 square meters. meters, the building will be built on the site of a former airfield.
In the New Aquitaine region, in addition to the above four sites, Hermès has a Guyenne leather goods factory, founded in 2019 in the city of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, north of Bayonne. The fashion house also plans to open another leather goods store in France, about twenty kilometers east of Bordeaux, covering an area of 6000 square meters.
In 2023, sales of leather goods and saddlery, the core business of the group known for its iconic Birkin and Kelly bags, grew by 11,8% to reach €5,5 billion on a total turnover of €13,4 billion, up 16% than the result obtained a year earlier.
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