Hermes Has Donated 20 Million Euros To The Paris Hospital.

In April 2nd, the French luxury giant Herm s Group said it would donate 20 million euros to fight the epidemic.

The Hermes group said it will donate 20 million euros to the public hospitals in Paris to fight the growing new crown virus outbreak. In addition to the money, Hermes's perfume factory in Vaudreuil has begun to switch to free hand sanitizers and has donated more than 30 tons of disposable hand sanitizers to hospitals in France. In addition, the Group donated more than 31 thousand masks.

Hermes closed all its production facilities before, except for the perfume factory in Vaudreuil.

In addition, Hermes will pay the basic salaries of all 15 thousand and 500 employees as usual, and will not seek any government subsidy. In the statement, Mr Hermes said: "with sufficient cash, as a responsible and responsible group, we will ensure the basic salary of all employees and will not seek the support of governments, especially the French government."

In addition, according to the recommendations of the Executive Committee, the board of supervisors of Hermes has decided to reduce the dividend payments of shareholders from 5 euros to 4.55 euros per share in April 24, 2020, unchanged from 2019. The executive directors of the board decided to give up all fixed and floating annual salary growth in 2020, and their salaries in 2020 will be unchanged from 2019.

In the past March, the luxuriant luxury index has seen its biggest monthly decline in the past four years and dropped to the level of 2 in 2019.

The global outbreak of the new crown has led many luxury companies to take action to take measures to help the government solve the shortage of medical supplies.

In March 30th, the French luxury brand Chanel (Chanel) mobilized its staff and cooperative manufacturers to jointly produce information on masks and protective clothing. Chanel also promised to pay 8 weeks' wages for its 8500 employees in France without relying on the state's emergency unemployment benefits.

Burberry (Bo Baili), a British luxury group, has also reorganized the windbreaker factory in Custer Ford, Yorkshire. After receiving the approval from the relevant agencies, it will switch to the respirator and protective clothing for the patients.

In March 21st, Dior's parent, LVMH, a French luxury giant, issued a statement saying it had helped the government order 40 million masks from a Chinese supplier to deal with the French outbreak. In March 22nd, Kering, a luxury luxury group in France, also said it would provide 3 million medical surgical masks to French health care providers in the next few days. Meanwhile, the Spanish luxury brand Balenciaga (Paris) and the French luxury brand Yves Saint Laurent (Saint Laurent) also began to manufacture masks in large quantities.