Hermès is a French luxury house founded in Paris in 1837 by Thierry Hermès, known for leather goods and saddlery, silk, ready-to-wear, perfume, homeware and watches made largely in its own French workshops. Listed on Euronext Paris, it reported EUR 16.0 billion in 2025 revenue and employed 26,494 people worldwide, about 16,300 of them in France.