Company
Longchamp
Headcount
about 3,000 employees
Website
Sector
Industry
Project type
Executive comittee workshop
Managers
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In brief
- Longchamp is a luxury leather goods company with production sites in France and abroad.
- Carbon Cutter organised a one-day seminar with Longchamp’s management team with the aim of aligning its members with the company’s strategic climate challenges.
- Carbon Cutter then assisted the Director of Transformation and the CSR Manager in developing the company’s medium-term vision and defining an action plan, both of which were iterated and validated by the entire management team.
- A dozen promising initiatives were identified and framed, with an implementation schedule and defined resources.
“The tailor-made seminar day led by Carbon Cutter enabled us to build a shared vision of our environmental challenges and the transformations needed to sustain our expertise in facing the challenges of decarbonisation.”
— Adrien Cassegrain
Director of Transformation, Longchamp
Unique expertise in leather goods, craftsmanship of excellence
Longchamp is a French leather goods company that brings together unique expertise at every stage of leather processing.
Since its creation in 1948, Longchamp has evolved over time to become the French leader in leather goods.
Longchamp’s production activities are spread across six production sites in western France, employing more than 800 people. In addition to this industrial network, there are two production sites abroad, in Tunisia and Mauritius. Finally, the brand also uses partner workshops in France, China, Romania and Morocco.
The initial challenge
Longchamp asked Carbon Cutter to:
- Organise a one-day seminar for members of its management team, highlighting the specific challenges facing the industry and the company’s business lines;
- Support the development of a concrete and ambitious environmental vision for the company;
- Define and frame inspiring initiatives to respond to the challenges and vision identified.
The completed project
The project consisted of two main phases:
A collective phase to align the management team on the group’s environmental issues
The company has been committed to the environment for many years, as evidenced by its policy focused on product sustainability, improving the impact of tanning and reducing energy consumption at its sites.
After conducting a carbon assessment, Longchamp asked Carbon Cutter to align the management team with the group’s environmental challenges and define a new roadmap.
We designed a one-day seminar with the entire Longchamp management team with several objectives:
- To ensure a uniform level of understanding among the members of the management team. This was achieved through presentations on global and Longchamp-specific environmental issues, particularly around leather sourcing and air freight.
- To illustrate the physical risks associated with climate change that weigh on Longchamp’s value chain, particularly on partner workshops and tanneries, as well as on livestock farming and therefore leather sourcing.
- To forecast Longchamp’s activity into forward-looking scenarios that reflect what our economies might look like in a low-carbon, life-friendly world.
We also invited a pioneering entrepreneur in the textile industry to share his experience.
A strengthened vision, new transition projects launched
Following this day, we supported the Director of Transformation and the CSR Manager in developing a structured, ambitious and inspiring environmental vision for 2033. This vision is accompanied by specific quantitative objectives and priority areas of work.
We then organised a new half-day workshop with key members of Longchamp’s management team to iterate on this vision and translate the four inspiring principles into concrete projects to be launched in the short, medium and long term.
A dozen promising initiatives were identified and defined (team, objective, schedule, resources to be implemented).
