O mercado de artigos de couro - França

• **Chanel investment in the Gensi Group Footwear Factory**:
  • - Inauguration of a new 3,000-square-meter splicing department at the Mosciano Sant'Angelo (Teramo) production site.
  • - Activation of 4 new production lines of 70 meters each.
  • - Currently, 6 production lines are in operation, with a plan to double them in the next 3 years through the inclusion of new professional resources.
• **Corporate Sustainability Initiatives**:
  • - Formation of 3 working groups dedicated to the company's environmental sustainability a year ago.
  • - Reduction in energy consumption and processing waste.
  • - Advances in recycling and reuse.
  • - Launch of in-house training institute "M'Astri Nascenti" in collaboration with Arsutoria School, with 60 people trained to date.
• **Workforce and Hiring Plans**:
  • - Currently, the company has more than 660 employees, of whom more than 120 are hemlines.
  • - New hires are planned to further increase the workforce.
• **Manufacturing Chanel and Italian Supply Chain**:
  • - Chanel shoes are designed in France but produced in Italy.
  • - Italian companies controlled by Chanel involved in production: Roveda of Parabiago (acquired in 1999), Gensi of Giulianova (acquired in 2015), and Ballin Shoes (acquired in 2020).

• Samsonite is identified as Delsey's main competitor.
• Delsey recently signed two five-year licensing agreements with Benetton and Jeep.
• Delsey already teamed up with Peugeot in January to develop a line of premium suitcases and bags.
• Licensing revenues could account for up to 45% of Delsey's sales.
• 50% of customers were unaware that Delsey was a French company.
• Delsey still generates 20% of its business in France.
• Delsey's sales forecast for 2023 is 250 million euros, an increase of 20.7% in one year.

• Le 19M, the space dedicated to Chanel's métiers d'arts, was inaugurated in 2021.
• Le 19M brings together 600 craftsmen and experts in eleven Maisons d'arts.

Hermès sales growth: 25% in the first half.

Planned openings: four new leather goods stores by 2027.

• Hermès sales reached over 6.6 billion euros in the first six months of the year. Sales were up 25%.
• Sales in Asia were up 28%.
• Sales in the United States rose by 20%, in Europe by 22% and in France by 24%.
• Continued rapid growth in Hermès sales, with a particularly strong performance in Asia and in the leather goods market.

• Longchamp plans to hire 450 new staff this year, including 200 in its French factories
• Double-digit growth for Longchamp, outstripping that of the leather goods market
• Percentage of Longchamp sales in France: 30% (a third of which are generated by foreign visitors)
• Longchamp's online sales have tripled between 2019 and 2022 and represent almost 5% of sales
• Longchamp has 800 employees in France out of a total of 1,100 emplyees
• Longchamp has 330 directly-operated and concession stores worldwide, and 900 other points of sale
• Longchamp aims to expand from 40 to 60 stores in China over the next 5 years
• The Segré-en-Anjou Bleu site (Maine-et-Loire) employs 420 people