PARIS: A jump in sales of its trademark leather bags helped Hermes push its annual profits last year above one billion euros for the first time ever, results released Wednesday showed.

The French luxury goods maker said its 2016 net profit hit 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), a 13 percent jump from the previous year but slightly less than the consensus forecast of analysts surveyed by the financial data company Factset.

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