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2025 CSR Roadmap

VALUING INDIVIDUALITY

50%
of Group Key Positions held by women

2%
of employees with disabilities within the Group

100%
of recruiters having undertaken non-discrimination training in the last three years

30%
of leadership roles in the United States occupied by black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) (in 2026)

Achieve Digital Accessibility Level WCAG 2.1 AA

TAKING ACTION TO ENSURE THE HEALTH, SAFETY & WELL-BEING OF OUR EMPLOYEES

100% of the 5 commitments of the Health and Safety Policy achieved:

  1. Identify Health & Safety risks
  2. Establish a Health & Safety action plan
  3. Manage the Health & Safety approach
  4. Ensure all employees have an active role in Health & Safety
  5. Maintain a virtuous culture for a safe environment

Comply with the 15 LVMH Fair Wage Principles

PASSING ON THE SAVOIR‑FAIRE REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE

22,000
recruitments made in Métiers d’Excellence (by 2024)

3,000
middle school students made aware of Métiers d’Excellence through the “Excellent!” program

COMMITTING TO A BETTER  SOCIETY

At least one engagement action offered to all employees each year

 

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Diversity & Inclusion

Diverse by essence, inclusive by choice. 

At LVMH, we are diverse by nature with a workforce that counts more than 190 nationalities and 4 generations with an average age of 34, operating in more than 80 countries.

From sourcing and production facilities to retail, our people encompass a wealth of hundreds of métiers, spanning every link in the value chain. We strongly believe in people’s uniqueness, in their talent, in their singularity – whatever their background.

We value differences of perspectives that make our business more creative, more innovative, and stronger every day.

To be inclusive is not a luxury. It’s a choice.

And it’s everyone’s business.

 

 

 

 

WE COMMIT TO...

Fostering an inclusive culture based on respect where everyone can thrive and innovate to contribute to our long-term performance.

Offering an inclusive experience, beyond our work environment, where everyone that is part of our ecosystem – our people, partners and clients, feel welcomed, respected and represented.

At LVMH, Diversity & Inclusion is cross-cutting at all our business. Challenges and opportunities vary around the world, and our Talents across the Group innovate daily to push boundaries towards common goals.

Our three pillars of actions are:

People

LVMH and its Maisons embed inclusive practices into the entire employee journey.

Partners

LVMH and its Maisons embed inclusive practices into the entire supply chain.

Image

LVMH and its Maisons embed inclusive practices from our marketing campaigns to our store experience.

 

WE TARGET...


50%
of Women in Group Key Positions and Pay Equity
by 2025

2%
Employment of people with disabilities
by 2025

30%
of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in key positions
in North America

 

On the front lines, employees engage every day

Regional employee networks also engage talents around the world on various topics of interest to further inform and nurture our Group culture. At Group level, the EllesVMH, the All LVMH Pride and the LVMH Employees of African Descent (LEAD) in North America continue to grow. A number of networks also exist within our different Maisons, addressing topics of local relevance.

Our Maisons also implement initiatives aligned with their context and strategies. The best ones are recognized each year by the Inclusion Index, which promotes and stimulates Diversity and Inclusion initiatives across the Group through 6 dimensions : Gender Equity, LGBTI+, Disability, Origins (National & Social), Generations and Inclusive Culture (initiatives that contribute to fostering an inclusive culture and enhancing the overall experience of our talents, partners and clients).

 

 

 

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Ethique & Conformité

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Métiers d’Excellence LVMH

LVMH’s Métiers d’Excellence encompass over 280 Creative, Craft and Customer Experience métiers that require unique savoir-faire. Practiced by some 80,000 talented people around the world, these métiers are essential to the sustained success of our Group and our Maisons.

These métiers allow us to control every link in our value chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to the production and the selective retailing of our products. This control guarantees our excellence, both upstream and downstream.

They share a combination of technical skills with artistic and/or personal relations skills and are accessible to people from all types of backgrounds and previous professional experience around the world.

We want to attract the most talented people from younger generations everywhere in the world to pass on and nurture unique savoir-faire that are not widely recognized but are absolutely essential to the success of the LVMH Group and our Maisons.

The Métiers d’Excellence LVMH have a three-fold mission:

  • PASS ON unique skills to ensure that these métiers thrive in the future, and recruit the most talented people.
  • RECOGNIZE and develop talented people at our Maisons.
  • PROMOTE and celebrate the extraordinary Heritage and Savoir-Faire of Excellence that Make LVMH unique in the world, and showcase our initiatives among the public.

We have a responsibility to ensure that these unique Métiers are preserved and thrive. With the “We For We” Manifesto, signed by the members of the LVMH Executive Committee and by all the Chief Executive Officers of our Maisons, we formally make a commitment to:

1. Identify Métiers d’Excellence and ensure their preservation, especially those that require long and demanding apprenticeships or face a shortage of candidates.

2. Meet the development needs of each skillset and promote career-long learning, notably through continuing education.

3. Anticipate the competencies and savoir-faire needed to perform the Métiers d’Excellence of tomorrow by stimulating innovation and creativity.

4. Encourage cross-disciplinary exchanges among different Métiers d’Excellence.

5. Support work/study and apprenticeship approaches that combine theory and practise.

6. Encourage mentoring and coaching, with a focus on passing on skills from one generation to the next.

7. Develop and promote the employability of young talents, as well as people who are reskilling.

8. Promote people with talent in all their diversity, embodying the LVMH Group’s policy of support for equal opportunity.

9. Forge partnerships with organizations – non-profit associations, institutions and schools – whose vocation involves developing Métiers d’Excellence, and support solidarity initiatives through our philanthropy.

10. Promote broad awareness of these exceptional skills and inspire vocations.

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“You and ME”, the Métiers d’Excellence recruiting initiative

The event is one of the many actions taken by the Group to promote inclusion of young people from underserved neighborhoods and launches the recruitment campaign for the upcoming school year. It also provides an opportunity for outreach to other youth and people seeking reskilling opportunities, giving them a chance to talk to apprentices in the program, recruiters from LVMH Maisons and representatives from schools and universities and learn more about the Métiers d’Excellence at LVMH, as well as the programs proposed by the Institut des Métiers d’Excellence LVMH.

LVMH is once again reaching out to engage directly with future talented employees in the Group’s exceptional Métiers d’Excellence with a new edition of the “You and ME” tour. The event will travel to five French cities between February 15 and March 29. Launched in 2022, this initiative resonates with the LVMH Group’s commitment to inclusion by helping develop employability among both young generations and people seeking reskilling opportunities in creative, craft and client experience métiers (sales, hospitality, restaurants and much more). The tour enables interested candidates to identify targeted training programs and embark on paths to employment. The traveling vocational orientation and recruitment fair is a chance for participants to learn about the more than 280 exceptionally skilled professions practiced across the LVMH Group. Candidates can apply for more than 3,500 jobs available at LVMH Maisons in 2023 (including work/study programs, internships, plus fixed-term and permanent contracts).

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Excellent!

Employees from the Group and its Maisons present métiers with unique savoir-faire in Creative, Craft and Customer Experience professions.

The initiative reached over 120 students last year.

The program will gradually be rolled out at many other junior high schools across France.

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LIFE 360

LVMH’s environmental policy has been a pillar of its growth strategy for the past 27 years. This policy accelerated in 2012 with the creation of the LIFE (LVMH Initiatives For the Environment) program, which made sustainable development an integral part of the strategic business plans of all LVMH Maisons.

In 2016, LVMH consolidated the LIFE program around four objectives shared by all Maisons in order to accelerate progress towards environmental excellence by 2020: improve the environmental performance of all products, apply the highest standards across procurement chains, improve the environmental performance indicators of all sites, and reduce CO2 emissions.

Having achieved and sometimes exceeded these objectives, LVMH has decided to build on the achievements of LIFE 2020 by pursuing even more ambitious targets with its new LIFE 360 plan. This new strategy sets three key deadlines – 2023, 2026 and 2030 – and revolves around four product-focused pillars:

  • Protect biodiversity, with an emphasis on two areas: support for the Man and Biosphere program in partnership with UNESCO, and pilot trials, such as regenerative agriculture for the Wines & Spirits sector. LVMH also partners with Canopy on forest conservation.
  • Fight climate change thanks to LVMH’s commitment to pursue efforts to improve the energy performance of its sites and stores, focusing on CO2 emissions that are not directly linked to product manufacturing, but result from other stages in the product lifecycle, including transportation, procurement and use.
  • The circular economy, through initiatives such as recycling unsold products, upcycling by making clothes from existing stocks, or identifying alternative materials.
  • Transparency to address the expectations of society for more information about products and better traceability.

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LVMH Climate Week

LVMH Climate Week was also an opportunity for the Group to present 49 solutions identified with its partners. They include Desserto, a finalist in the LVMH Innovation Award 2020 competition, which has developed a plant-based vegan-leather made from cactus grown and produced in Mexico, which can be used to make leather goods or packaging. Another firm, Secante, makes custom LED lighting, while Celsius has developed a geothermal energy solution to heat and cool buildings, ensuring low-carbon comfort for occupants all year round.

Culminating LVMH Climate Week, the LIFE in Stores Awards celebrated the seven most virtuous and innovative solutions introduced by LVMH Maisons to reduce the environmental footprint of their stores.

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IUCN

Partnership with UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere program

In 2019, LVMH signed a five-year partnership with UNESCO to support the agency’s Man and Biosphere intergovernmental scientific program. This framework for international cooperation aims to safeguard biodiversity across the planet and establish sustainability best practices aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This joint UNESCO-LVMH initiative will focus on two major issues, reforestation and rehabilitation of degraded lands, and creation of sustainable employment and alternative sources of income, ensuring livelihoods for local populations that do not involve recourse to deforestation.

This partnership will in particular see a joint project with a budget of five million euros over five years to fight deforestation in the Amazon basin, a major threat to the region’s ecosystems.

At the same time, the partnership aligns UNESCO’s goal of enabling humans to live in harmony with nature with LVMH’s aim to conceive a “New Luxury” anchored in an alliance between nature and creativity. Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, and Antoine Arnault, LVMH Image and Environment, discussed these convictions during two key events on the Congress agenda, the opening ceremony and the CEO Summit.

UNESCO x LVMH joint pavilion at the Congress

UNESCO and the LVMH Group and its Maisons jointly hosted a pavilion to present their convictions and concrete actions to protect biodiversity. The pavilion’s four spaces – each with a title around the theme “ACT”, for “All Committed To” – detail how UNESCO and LVMH are working together for biodiversity:

– “ACT Together” presents the partnership between LVMH and UNESCO initiated in 2019 as part of the Man and Biosphere (MAB) intergovernmental program.

– “ACT for Conservation” details work done by UNESCO and LVMH to facilitate deployment of innovative solutions to sustainably manage natural resources.

– “ACT for Sustainable Use”  shows how, in the face of an unprecedented decrease in biodiversity, UNESCO and LVMH are taking concrete actions to ensure sustainable practices and balance conservation of biodiversity with sustainable use of resources.

– “ACT for Innovation”  details how UNESCO and LVMH are conceiving new tools for conservation of the planet in order to strengthen solidarity and the ability of people to recognize, understand and respect signs sent by the other species that live with us on earth.

“Wither” installation by artist Thijs Biersteker

In conjunction with the Congress, LVMH is supporting the Biocenosis21 exhibition organized by the Art of Change 21 association (curated by Alice Audouin). The  Group is funding and hosting a special edition of the work “Wither” by artist Thijs Biersteker at the UNESCO x LVMH joint pavilion.

The Dutch artist’s creation bridges ecology and technology with an animated sculpture inspired by deforestation data gathered in partnership with UNESCO in order to heighten awareness of event attendees and visitors.

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LIFE in Stores Awards

Created in 2016, the biennial LIFE in Stores Awards celebrate the most effective and innovative initiatives introduced to elevate the environmental performance of LVMH Group stores. The awards for different categories are certified by an independent external agency. Beyond the presentation of the prizes, the LIFE in Stores Awards are designed to drive continuous improvement and provide inspiration for all LVMH Maisons. The awards cover a variety of categories, including Building Insulation, Lighting Density, Air Quality, Energy, Interior Design and Maintenance.

Seven awards were presented in 2020 to five winners: Building Insulation and Energy Management (geothermal installations) for Louis Vuitton, Florence; Lighting (19 W/m²) and Interior Architecture (materials traceability) for Bvlgari, Milan Montenapoleone; interior Air Quality for Loro Piana, Munich; Maintenance for Berluti, Paris Saint-Honoré; and Progression, (special category) for Christian Dior, which in one year halved its lighting density per square meter.

In 2020, the  CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, the French construction industry research and innovation agency) formally certified that the LIFE v4 standards framework is equivalent to – and for certain criteria exceeds – the requirements of LEED, a top industry standards benchmark. This enables LVMH Maisons to measure their environmental performance in all countries where they are present and for all types of store configurations.

Architects, Visual Merchandisers and Sourcing Managers at LVMH Maisons have also benefitted from free online training over the past three years, enabling them to acquire the expertise needed to develop an array of energy-saving projects. The training is validated by Bronze, Silver and Gold medals. LVMH also organizes tours and conferences to help inspire creatives to combine energy conservation with ideas that trigger a resounding “Wow!” effect.

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