Hermès became a publicly traded company in 1993.
The listing marked a major corporate milestone for the French luxury house, which had remained closely associated with family ownership and long-term control. Hermès shares began trading on the Paris stock market during a period when major European luxury groups were becoming increasingly international.
Public trading did not end the family’s influence. The descendants of Thierry Hermès continued to hold a substantial stake and remained important in the company’s governance and strategic direction. This combination of public ownership and family control is a distinctive feature of Hermès’s corporate story.
The date is sometimes confused with later changes in shareholding involving large luxury groups. Those developments occurred after the 1993 listing and do not change the answer to when Hermès first became publicly traded.