HERMÈS - 2018 Registration document

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Corporate social responsibility communities: stakeholders and local integration

Furthermore, the division participates in the job/training commission of the Bugey Développement association and the local school/enterprise committee (Comité Local Ecoles Entreprises). The Pôle Sud-Ouest maintains close relations with the municipalities of Montbron, Nontron and Saint Junien, as well as the local Job Centres, Cap Emploi, the occupational health authority, Action Logement and several local training organisations that we regularly support. Maroquinerie de Sayat helps to provide collective information to secondary schools for the recruitment of the new cohort of leather craftsmen and women. This also involves visits to secondary schools to promote the House’s métiers with new leatherwork diploma students. Maroquinerie des Ardennes also organises experience-sharing events with local businesses and regularly plays host to sponsors of the Local Mission (young people’s job and training organisation). Within the framework of projects to set up new sites , we work in close collaboration with local stakeholders to facilitate our integration in the area and recruit employees, and also to increase awareness of Hermès in an area where there is no production site. Silk HTH maintains close relations with the textile apprentice training centre (CFA Textile) and Unitex (France’s leading regional professional textile organisation). The division participates in the Alliances et Territoires community, which meets quarterly to examine current topics and issues relating to recruitment, training and skill development. Alliances et Territoires is a network of 16 Lyon-based companies that are committed to developing employee skills and improving their employability through a GPEC-T (forward-looking regional jobs and skills management planning) approach aimed at promoting the development of individual and collec- tive skills throughout the Lyon region. In 2018, collaborative work was organised in partnership with Open Emploi (a socially-oriented tempo- rary employment agency that promotes the employment of people from diverse backgrounds), leading to three recruitments (temporary assign- ments and fixed-termcontracts). People with disabilities were thus hired as Textile Quality Controllers. At the Bourgoin site in Isère, the forum Initiative Emploi enabled increased visibility (for Gandit, SNC, Créations Métaphores), to work on the employer brand and receive CVs from potential candidates. Other métiers TheWomen’s ready-to-wear métier opens its doors to people undergoing reskilling in the warp and weft workshop for some fifteen days each year. In Perfumes, numerous local employment initiatives are sup- ported through actions such as: participation in the new programme orchestrated by CAP EMPLOI 27 (“30 days to find a job”) and the pro- gramme conducted by the town of Val de Reuil (participation in a work/ study forum scheduled for March 2019), as well as participation in the

Handisup forum that brought together 90 students with disabilities looking for internships, work/study contracts, summer jobs, etc. Hermès Commercial in Bobigny is supporting a partnership plan for local integration through employment (Plan Local d’Insertion par l’Emploi – PLIE), which helps job seekers find employment. When approached, the stakeholders show great openness and a drive to move forward in a mutually beneficial way during the recruitments conducted.

CHALLENGE: A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE COMPANY

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A socially responsible company actively involved in the life of local com- munities with which it builds and develops strong ties. Hermès seeks to fit harmoniously into the local economic fabric. Its craftsmanship model gives it a territorial corporate responsibility in France, which goes beyond the direct creation of jobs. Giving time, giving of one’s self, opening oneself up to others, receiving, and so on: employees. Many different plans are in place at Hermès in its various locations worldwide. Policy The Group’s policy is to ensure that each of the House’s production and distribution units maintains a dialogue with local authorities and stakeholders. Through the craftsmanship model that it deploys in France, it bears a regional corporate responsibility, which goes beyond the direct creation of jobs, with the goal of healthy integration in the local community, as a good, trustworthy, civic-minded neighbour. Corporate responsibility Hermès creates value in France by directly providing 8,846 jobs (62% of the Group’s employees), and by recruiting 527 individuals in 2018 to steady jobs. The Group’s income tax expense amounted to €670 mil- lion (see section 4.1), i.e. an effective tax rate of 32.5% (compared to France’s current tax rate of 34.4%). The Group’s sales are 87% outside France, thus contributing to the French trade balance. Hermès moreover acts as a socially responsible company wherever it operates. Its actions take place with a view to the long term, by deve- loping harmonious relationships with stakeholders (municipal authori- ties, associations of municipalities, associations supporting employ- ment, the Local Mission (young people’s job and training organisation), schools,housingassociations,etc.),andtherebycontributingtoHermès’ outreach. 2.7.2.1 2.7.2.2 Measures implemented and results

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