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2016 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL 32
OVERVIEW OF THE GROUP 1 PROPERTY
1.6 PROPERTY
In Paris, the Group now occupies office surface of approximately
26,000 m2, mainly near its historical registered office of 24, rue du
Faubourg-Saint-Honoré and 19-21, rue Boissy-d’Anglas, which it owns.
Staff are also assigned to office premises in rue de la Ville-l’Évêque and
rue d’Anjou, rented to third parties under commercial leases, and on
a site located at rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, which also houses a
leather goods workshop.
In 2016, in Bobigny, the Group continued the work to increase the size of
its 21,000 m2 logistical site, which it owns.
In Pantin, Hermès occupies 83,000 m2 of manufacturing premises
and office space in the town centre, most of which it owns, including
the Jean-Louis Dumas Space, which opened in 2015 and the Cité des
métiers, completed the year before and which won the prix de l’équerre
d’argent 2014.
Concerning the production sites, the Group is the owner of 41 of the
50 units that it operates. (please refer to page 30 for a detailed list).
A new leather goods workshop, located in Franche-Comté, in Héricourt,
opened in2016andphase1of theworks onour future leather goods site
in Normandy located in the Val de Reuil commune is complete.
Hermèsproductsaresoldworldwideviaanetworkof307exclusivestores
(a detailed list is given on pages 25 to 28). Of the 307 Hermès exclu-
sive retail stores throughout the world, 210 are operated as branches.
Most of these are rented under long-term commercial leases intended
primarily to ensure the continuity of operations over time. The Group also
owns the buildings that house certain stores, including those in Paris,
Ginza in Tokyo, Dosan Park in Seoul, The Galleria in Hong Kong, Beverly
Hills in the US and in Geneva, Switzerland. Furthermore, the Group owns
a commercial and office building in London which was acquired in 2009
and is let to an external tenant. The branches are located in the following
geographical areas: 70 in Europe (including 14 in France), 39 in the
Americas (including 27 in the US), 95 in Asia (including 31 in Japan),
and 6 in Oceania.
1.7 FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE
Promoting expertise, supporting design, improving the transfer of
knowledge across the generations, while leaving behind a sustainable
planet for future generations: these have been the objectives of the
Hermès Fondation d’Entreprise since it was set up in 2008. These
causes closely fit the Hermès values and culture, and are applied by the
Foundation to the field of common good and in a flexible way with the
operations specific to the house. Sponsorship is a voluntary initiative
and our discretion is used to gain the efficiency sought from our support.
Far from being content with merely alleviating their difficulties, we are
committed, by working with decision-makers, to support company trans-
formations: this involves taking the time to explore new solutions and to
design new and innovative responses to societal and artistic challen-
ges…We apply these convictions to everything we do: supporting artistic
imagination with critical and enlightened opinions, fostering knowledge
transfer to help young people to build their future, highlighting human abi-
lity to manufacture in an innovative and prospective way using ancestral
expertise, promotingmanual craftsmanshipas a sourceof development.
The Foundation’s daily task is to listen to civil society players who share
the same concerns and play a role in the collective drive towards a more
harmonious world.
The Foundation expresses its various commitments in different ways.
It implements programmes championed directly by its team which aim
to give beneficiaries a fertile context in which to realise their ambitions:
Skills Academy, Prix Émile Hermès, artists’ residences at Hermès manu-
facturing sites and Immersion… Others are initiated in partnership with
general interest bodies with which we share objectives; this was the
case in 2016, with Manufacto, la fabrique des savoir-faire, developed
with the Paris board of education, les Compagnons du devoir and l’école
Camondo (Paris) to raise awareness among children of manual crafts-
manship. Our support for creativity in the area of live spectacle would
be unthinkable without the support of and sharing with institutions such
as the Théâtre de la Cité internationale, le Festival d’Automne and the
Théâtre des Amandiers-Nanterre. Finally, more traditionally, calls for pro-
jects enable us to identify the most relevant stakeholders to deal with
the challenges posed by the assistance programme; such is the case of
H3 in which employees of Hermès can themselves become involved in
solidarity and biodiversity protection initiatives.
Our role it to make it possible to bring projects to life, meet the conditions
necessary to reach their aim, to support the women and men who work
for the common good. The Foundation would not be effective without
their skill and commitment. This involves decision-making and risk-ta-
king, trust and respect, but also optimism for the future, come what may.
This text by Catherine Tsekenis, Director of the Fondation d’Entreprise