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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Leather And Related Products 15.12 - Manufacture of luggage, handbags and the like, saddlery and harness
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 March 2018
Employment effect (start)
15 December 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The world's number one luxury group LVMH has as announced the opening of its 16th leather goods workshop in Beaulieu-sur-Layon (Maine-et-Loire) that will lead to recruit about 250 employees. The workshop will be created at the begining of 2019, but recruitments will start earlier. The group Louis Vuitton has already announced, in February 2018, the recruitment of 200 employees at its site in La Merlatière (Vendée). The Louis Vuitton brand employed 4,500 people in 2017 worldwide, including 3,500 in its French workshops.
Sources
27 March 2018: Challenges
27 March 2018: Ouest-France
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Soc des Ateliers Louis Vuitton, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 93692, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93692.
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