Hermès
A saddle maker with no marketing department, whose orange box came from the one roll of paper nobody wanted.
Big name·Global·Founded 1837·Members
At a glance
- Founded
- 1837, as a saddlery workshop near the Madeleine in Paris.1
- Founded by
- Thierry Hermès, who trained as a saddler in Normandy.1
- Home
- 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, its address since 1880.1
- Owned by
- Listed on the stock exchange since 1993, and controlled by the founder's descendants through the H51 holding company.1
- Size
- Revenue of €16 billion in 2025, up 9 per cent at constant exchange rates.2
How it got here
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