The brand story began in 1948 when Jean Cassegrain, the father of today's President, founded the company.

There is a famous horse race track in Paris called Longchamp.

Just next door to it was an old mill that the founder of Longchamp called Cassegrain - which means ""miller"" in French - used to pass in front of.

The company soon found its name: it being only a short trot from the mill to the miller and onto the race track, itself named Longchamp or ""long field""... the way was fore trod!

Longchamp is a privately held, unlisted family run company. Therefore it does not publish annual financial reports and does not release its financial results.

All Longchamp product is produced in its six production sites in France in the Maine and Loire areas but also in production facilities outside France, as well as 8 workshops run in partnership around the world.

More than 1100 people worldwide work in production facilities for the Longchamp brand.