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- Sep 26, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Hermès Opens 24th French Leather Workshop, in Charente
- Hermès inaugurated its 24th French leather goods workshop in L'Isle-d'Espagnac, Charente, on 26 September 2025, its fourth site in the South-West craft hub after Nontron (1995), Saint-Junien (1998) and Montbron (2014)[1]
- The 5,800-square-metre workshop will ultimately employ 260 artisans and creates 300 local jobs; it makes Kelly and Birkin bags and small leather goods[1][2]
- Built with architecture firm Guiraud-Manenc from low-carbon materials (Charente stone, raw earth, straw insulation, poplar and red cedar), the building carries 1,800 square metres of solar panels and a geothermal system[1]
- Recruits train at the École Hermès des savoir-faire, which Hermès created in 2021 to pass on its leatherworking know-how[1]
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- [1]90%finance.hermes.com/en/hermes-inaugurates-its-twenty-fourth-leather-goods-workshop-lisle-despagnac-charentefinance.hermes.com· Posted Sep 25, 2026· Starts Sep 26, 2025 ✓· 80% of score
Hermès' press release is datelined "Paris, 26th September 2025" and its headline says it is "inaugurating" the workshop; that date is a Friday, matching press reports that the inauguration took place on a Friday.
- [2]80%New Hermès workshop in France to produce Kelly and Birkin bagsfashionunited.com· Published Sep 26, 2025· 20% of score
AFP wire report, published 26 September 2025, confirming the Charente location and that the workshop makes Kelly and Birkin bags exclusively in France.[1]
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