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2016 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT
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Corporate social responsability
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Stakeholders and local integration
Textiles
SNC Nontron held an open day to mark its 25 years of operations. More
than a hundred people (families of employees, retirees, elected officials,
partners, CATE and Maroquinerie Nontronnaise artisans) were able to
discover the different stages of manufacturing products (ties and maxi
twilly). A fun paper tie colouring workshop was also held for children.
At ATBC, three half-days allowed families, locals and elected officials
alike to learn all about weaving.
Cristallerie Saint-Louis
A project to improve and extend the visit offered by the production unit
since 2010 was initiated in conjunction with the plan to renovate the
tank furnace. The novelty of this visit, enhanced by a “hot-glass” acti-
vity in the same workshop, rather than in a separate workshop as was
the case previously, resides in its accessibility for people with reduced
mobility. The tour is now identical for all visitors. The project will be com-
pleted in 2017 with the old tank furnace restored and preserved for the
occasion. Visitors to the museum also benefit from the new layout of the
“hot-glass” workshop, which is located in the area that already housed
the museum, where craftspeople can be watched through a large win-
dow. Following the success of the event organised during Sustainable
Development Week, which enabled visitors to discover the Saint-Louis
filtering gardens, the museum team plans to organise regular guided
tours of this area from May 2017.
Tableware
In Nontron, Compagnie des Arts de la Table et de l’Émail (CATE) opened
its doors to a wide audience for a day so that employees could share
with friends and family their pride in their profession and explain the
ingenuity, tenacity and rigour that underlies their expertise.
Hermès Hors les Murs
During the “Hermès Hors les Murs” Festival in Paris in November 2016,
the artisans of 10 of the House’s métiers were able to demonstrate and
share their experience and their passion for their profession. More than
43,000 visitors came to watch demonstrations by artisans. They were
able to take part in discussions to gain a better understanding of Hermès
on such topics as “crafts, circular economy and the relationship to time”,
“passing craft skills on to youngpeople” and “thinkingandacting locally”.
The latter talk provided an opportunity to address the links between pri-
vate and public actors with the aim of driving local economic growth
over time.
2.6.2
Initiatives
Giving time, giving of one’s self, opening oneself up to others, receiving...
The employees now grasp that everyone can play a role in building tomor-
row, in their own way, through the simplest of gestures. Throughout the
world, many different plans are in place at Hermès.
2.6.2.1
Commited employees
France
Hermès services Groupe brought together more than 300 people for a
day of concrete action, namely the planting of 1,000 trees on an integra-
tion site in Normandy. The new apple orchard will help diversify the site’s
activity. The trees will need to be tended, and will serve to develop other
skills such as the production of juice from the apple crop. It is also an
opportunity for employees to join forces in a solidarity approach.
The Silk division is involved with many voluntary organisations. In 2016,
many employees took part in a football tournament to sponsor “Sport
dans la ville”, which works with children from disadvantaged areas. In
addition, Holding Textile Hermès supports “Restaurants du Cœur” by
paying a subsidy and developing exchanges with employees. Ateliers AS
and Etablissement Textile Hermès have held charitable collections of
food and toys. Finally, an active partnership with “Maison de la Danse”
has offered away to subsidise a number of youth-oriented projects. Forty
employees took part in “Intro Danse”, a cultural exchange which intro-
duces people to dance.
For several years, Hermès International employees have received seaso-
nal “solidarity baskets” comprising vegetables, artisanal food products
and local agricultural produce. Baskets can be used to make a donation
to an NGO sponsored during the operation.
Distribution network
In New York, a series of pilot sustainable development projects were
carried out in 2016. The objective was to present sustainability actions
carried out in their local community to the teams. This was illustrated
notably by the viewing of an installation at theMuseumofModern Art fea-
turing a provisional innovative structure designed to provide a response
to environmental problems. An explanation was also given for the Hell’s
Kitchen Farm Project, an urban farm aimed at forging bonds and promo-
ting well-being in the community. These immersive experiences served
as a source of inspiration for the activities of sustainable development
ambassadors in the stores.
In addition, Sustainable Development Week was an opportunity to
launch a nationwide competition dubbed the H.O.P. Re-creation Contest,
the aim of which was to link the principles embodied by petit H with the
values of sustainable development. Each teamwas asked to submit exa-
mples of re-creations geared towards reducing waste in their daily lives.
The winner, selected by Pascale Mussard, received a petit H prize. The
subsidiary’s key players gathered for a sustainable breakfast that saw
the emergence of numerous ideas and suggestions, some of which are
already under development.
In Asia, more than 20 sustainable development leaders from subsidia-
ries in China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Paris, South Korea and Hong
Kong met in Hong Kong in spring 2016 for a three-day conference on
sustainable development strategy, where they shared experiences and