10/19/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 10/19/2021 11:43
With an exceptional event, LVMH commits and preserves its 280 Métiers d'Excellence through an ambitious program to promote these promising careers for young people.
At a time when 10,000 jobs in the craft professions are unable to be filled each year in France[1], LVMH marked its commitment to these professions at its inaugural "SHOW ME" event bringing together LVMH Virtuosos and apprentices from all its Maisons in the extraordinary Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. At this event, the Group announced plans for nearly 8,000 recruitments in 2022 under its Métiers d'Excellence program and unveiled its new objectives as well as its initiatives in continued support and promotion of exceptional skills and expertise in creation, craftsmanship and the customer experience, together with its commitment to provide access to these professions for the largest possible number of applicants.
The "SHOW ME" event offered the opportunity to highlight the 80,000 employees of the 280 Métiers d'Excellence representing those skills and expertise, the widest variety of these professions in the world, all companies combined.
This celebration is in keeping with the commitments of the "WE for ME" ("Worldwide Engagements for Métiers d'Excellence") agreement, signed last July by LVMH, which had already set out the Group's commitment to supporting and promoting these professions.
"Nothing could be more essential to LVMH than the Métiers d'Excellence. The success of all our Maisons is built on this living heritage. It is vitally important that we encourage a shift in perceptions among younger generations concerning these exceptional professions, because they are truly meaningful and because they are perfect avenues to build excellent careers. More than 30,000 recruitments are planned as part of the Group's vision for the future between now and the end of 2024, including about 8,000 in 2022.", said Chantal Gaemperle, EVP Human Resources and Synergies of LVMH group.
The LVMH Métiers d'Excellence's commitment is structured around the following key objectives over the coming years:
Raising awareness beginning in middle school:
Educating and passing on skills
Vocational training
Honoring talent
Supporting expertise beyond the Group
The Group has also forged partnerships and launched collaborative initiatives in this area:
These prizes were created by the magazines Elle, Elle à Table and Elle Décoration and the LVMH group, with the support of the Institut National des Métiers d'Art and the Chambre des Métiers de l'Artisanat.
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About the "SHOW ME" event
The event held on Tuesday, October 19 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (15 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris) reflected LVMH's mission to protect and support Métiers d'Excellence (ME) for the years to come.
"SHOW ME" was comprised of two acts. Act 1, from the stage, aimed to show all the value of Métiers d'Excellence through the experiences of selected members of the Group's community of talent (artisans, designers, sales associates and executives). Act 2, in the spaces adjoining the main theater, offered an itinerary of demonstrations of skills and expertise by current apprentices enrolled in the Institut des Métiers d'Excellence (IME) program, artisans, LVMH Virtuosos, and external partners such as La Fabrique NOMADE and Prix des Artisanes prizewinners.
A new approach to the traditional ceremony for the Institut des Métiers d'Excellence program, "SHOW ME" celebrated not only apprentices, but broadened the focus to include the Group's entire community of talent working in creation, craftsmanship and the customer experience, across all generations.
A dozen speakers took the floor, including Élisabeth Borne, the French Minister of Labor, Employment and Economic Inclusion, Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of LVMH group, Chantal Gaemperle, EVP Human Resources and Synergies of LVMH group, but also Nicolas Ghesquière, Artistic Director of Women's Collections at Louis Vuitton, along with several artisans, apprentices and LVMH Virtuosos.
To illustrate the Group's commitment to support Métiers d'Excellence, each speaker offered his or her personal perspective on these professions to promote their importance as drivers for passing on skills and preserving traditions, but also to foster economic inclusion as well as local and regional economic development.
A new "SHOW ME" event, putting the spotlight on the professions, skills and expertise of the Group's Maisons in Italy will be held in Florence on November 19.
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Key figures and highlights
The Institut des Métiers d'Excellence (IME) program in 2021
New IME class for 2021-2022
"Excellent!"
Sixth edition of the Village des Métiers d'Excellence
LVMH Virtuosos
Métiers d'Excellence
Nearly 10% of artisans at the Group's Maisons are in training
[1] Source: Comité Colbert