The luxury group LVMH will manufacture “in large quantities” hydroalcoholic gel on three of its French production sites normally dedicated to its perfumes and cosmetics (Dior, Guerlain and Givenchy), to help in the fight against the coronavirus. The products, produced this Monday in Saint-Jean-de-Braye (near Orléans), Chartres and Beauvais, will be donated to hospitals.
Priority to AP-HP hospitals
"Faced with the risk of shortage observed in France, Bernard Arnault (the CEO of the group) asked the perfumes and cosmetics branch of LVMH to mobilize its production capacities to manufacture and offer to the public authorities significant quantities of hydroalcoholic gel", specifies a press release published this Sunday.
These gels will be “delivered free of charge to French health authorities, as a priority” to the 39 hospitals of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). The initiative will last "as long as it takes," says the group. Twelve tonnes will be produced in the first week, and more thereafter.
Other companies also involved
The AP-HP was thus experiencing "supply tensions on hydroalcoholic gels, but no shortage," said a spokesperson, according to which "other companies have come forward to make donation proposals, which are being finalized. " The director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, "thanks LVMH for its responsiveness: they made us a proposal on Saturday at 9 pm, which materialized on Sunday at 3 pm," he said.
Last Friday, the Sanofi pharmaceutical group announced it the creation of a seed fund to "support the research effort of the AP-HP teams".
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