Les Abrets: another new production site for Hermès
25/06/2015
Earlier in the month, Hermès opened a new production site at Montbron in Charente, in the south-west of the country.
Speaking at the opening ceremony for the facility at Les Abrets, Hermès president, Axel Dumas, said it was important to show that artisan production is alive and well in France and that the set-up was a tribute to the quality of workmanship local skilled craftspeople are able to offer. “Leather only becomes beautiful if we know how to treat it in the right way,” he said.
In total, 130 people will work at the Les Abrets factory, 115 of them artisans. Hermès said at the launch that it remains committed to its established practice of having one artisan take charge of the production of an individual bag from start to finish. Depending on the bag, this can take between 10 and 15 hours’ work.
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