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How the Dumas family, heirs to the 49.2 billion Hermès fortune, turned

Luckier still, that person was Jean-Louis Dumas, executive chairman of Hermès. Over the rest of the flight, the pair discussed the ideal bag. One that could actually hold all the things Birkin.


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Under Axel Dumas' uncle, Jean-Louis Dumas, CEO from 1978 to 2006, much of the family ownership had split into a Russian-nesting-doll-like group of six holding companies. Layered atop that was an.


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PARIS — Jean-Louis Dumas — who for almost three decades personified Hermès and led the family-controlled firm to the pinnacle of the luxury sector — is stepping down. On Thursday, after the.


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Jean-Louis Dumas, who revived the flagging fortunes of Hermes in the late 1970s and in his nearly 30 years as the company's chief executive transformed it into one of the world's most successful.


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Jean-Louis Dumas, the former president of Hermès, was credited with turning a niche, conservative and stagnating fashion house into one of the world's most successful luxury brands. He achieved.


French businessman and artistic director JeanLouis Dumas is the

In 2005, Jean-Louis Dumas announced he would be retiring after nearly 30 years as the company's chairman and CEO. By 2006, he had overseen the growth of Hermès sales to nearly US$2 billion.


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PARIS — Jean-Louis Dumas, chief executive officer at Hermès International from 1978 until his retirement in 2006, died Saturday morning after a long illness, an Hermès spokeswoman confirmed. He.


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Axel Dumas, chairman and CEO of Hermès. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP via Getty Images There are dozens of heirs to the Hermès fortune, but two cousins, Pierre-Alexis and Axel Dumas, are at the top of the.


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Jean-Louis Dumas was born on February 2 1938 in Paris. His mother was one of the four daughters of Emile Hermès, and a grandchild of Thierry Hermès, who had founded the business in 1837.


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Jean-Louis Dumas, who chaired the French luxury goods group Hermes for almost three decades until 2006, has died at the age of 72, his spokesman said on Sunday. He died on Saturday in Paris. Dumas took over in 1978 as head of the illustrious fashion and luxury house, which was founded by his family five generations earlier, in 1837.


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Jean-Louis Dumas, who revived the flagging fortunes of Hermès in the late 1970s and in his nearly 30 years as the company's chief executive transformed it into one of the world's most successful.


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HERMES' former ceo Jean-Louis Dumas died this weekend following a long illness. The businessman, who was at the helm of the family-run business from 1978 until 2006, suffered from Parkinson's disease. He was 72. A fifth generation descendent of the company's founder, Thierry Hermès, Dumas was also artistic director of the French brand and.


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Since becoming chairman 10 years ago, Mr. Dumas-Hermes, a fifth-generation member of the family that founded the company in 1837, has worked to give Hermes (pronounced air-MEZ) a younger image, so.


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It was Jean-Louis Dumas who reinvented the notion of craftsmanship to make it the symbolic and practical backbone of a contemporary luxury goods company with an international distribution network. "My father had a double vision. [Along with international expansion, he] introduced a notion of contemporary craftsmanship.


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With Jean-Louis Dumas still at the helm, Hermès developed across the world with the opening of numerous stores, each of which ingeniously combined the saddler's identity with local culture. Among these international stores, several Maisons Hermès were inaugurated: on Madison Avenue in New York (USA) in 2000, in a building made of glass.


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Of the few who withstood Arnaultisation, the staunchest was Jean-Louis Dumas, chairman of Hermès, who has died aged 72. Dumas was the great-great-grandson of Thierry Hermès, who founded the.