Hermès - Registration Document 2016

2016 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT

HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL

Corporate social responsability

Introduction

specific technical reference frameworks, whether in terms of real

estate, supplier relations, guidance on applying the ethics charter in

specific contexts, or on eco-actions, for instance;

a dedicated intranet (“Harmonie Hermès”), designed to inform

employees and share best practices. It also houses all documents

useful for local teams.

2.1.4

Scope

The information in respect of sustainable development contained in this

report covers all group subsidiaries and sites. This scope is explained in

sub-section«1.6 Property» (see chapter 1). Hermès operates 50 produc-

tion sites (38 in France), spread over 44 geographical locations, inclu-

ding 32 in France, three in Switzerland, two in the United States, four in

Australia, one in the United Kingdom and two in Italy, plus the Bobigny

logistics platform. Hermès goods are available worldwide through a

network of 307exclusive stores. TheGroup occupies 26,000m

of office

space inParis. InPantin, the groupalsohas productionandoffice spaces

including the Espace Jean-Louis Dumas opened in 2015 and the Cité

des Métiers, which won the équerre d’argent prize for 2014.

2.1.5

Facilitation of initiatives

TheGroup’s subsidiaries andentities initiateandmonitor numerous sus-

tainable development projects each year. In 2016, for instance, the Silk

division organised a work seminar with its Management Committee to

update its strategic roadmap. The Hermès Leather Goods and Saddlery

division updated its 2015 strategic plan, presented to the Sustainable

Development Committee. The updated plan boasts very ambitious envi-

ronmental targets. In the tanneries, a sustainable development road-

map has been drawn up for the 2016-2018 period in collaboration with

themembers of theManagement Committee. It was presented on all the

sites over the year to allow them to appropriate it and implement their

own action plan.

Regular events such as Sustainable Development Week in France pro-

vide an opportunity for exchanges with team members on the challen-

ges represented by the various issues, as well as the Group’s strategy

and achievements. This helps provide an opening to the outside world.

In 2016, the sites in Paris and Bobigny organised one event daily, ran-

ging from the distribution of fruit and vegetable baskets to meetings with

beekeepers, clothing drives, wellness workshops and awareness raising

on eco-driving. A private screening of the film

Demain

(“Tommorow”) pro-

vided a platform for discussing concrete and exciting projects with more

than 350 employees.

At the Leather Goods and Saddlery division, each site held a specific

event during Sustainable Development Week in 2016: clothing drives,

health and wellness workshops, awareness raising on sustainable agri-

culture and meetings with local farmers, workshops on individual recy-

cling and sorting, and maintenance of beehives on four of our sites. The

Annonay and Montereau tanneries participated. The Annonay tannery

took advantage of the event to harvest and distribute honey from the

hives located on the tannery grounds to its employees. The Montereau

tannery has introduced community vegetable gardens maintained by

employees.

In the Silk division, employees designed various awareness-raising

workshops: carpooling challenge, challenge with Le Relais for the col-

lection of textiles, communications on eco-actions, book donations for

children.

Several workshops were proposed in the Hermès’ Perfumes division:

urban beekeeping (introduction to bees, beekeeping and the challenges

of pollination, as well as a honey tasting), urban agro-ecology (the prin-

ciples of agro-ecology and learning how to create one’s own vegetable

garden), promoting biodiversity (presentation of the various habitats

required to preserve biodiversity).

CATE treated the production unit’s 150 employees to an organic break-

fast featuring local products, and also organised several events. As the

unit is located in the heart of the Périgord LimousinRegional Nature Park,

park representatives presented their actions and raised the awareness

of artisans on the conservation of a protected local species, the pearl

mussel. A beekeeper explained the life of bees to artisans with an edu-

cational hive housing a queen and a few thousand bees. Lastly, a used

clothing drive was organised for the Le Relais network.

During the week, Les Cristalleries de Saint-Louis site organised a talk by

the mediator of the Parc Naturel des Vosges du Nord as part of the “Just

dive in!” programme. These exchanges between the general public and

the employees of the production unit provided an opportunity to discuss

the site’s water-conservation context and the installation of phytotreat-

ment basins recently renovated by the production unit.