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Legacy and the Le Pliage: Family business Longchamp puts down roots in Shanghai’s French Concession

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SHANGHAI – When Mr Jean Cassegrain first stepped into a 1940s villa in Wukang Road in Shanghai, he felt instantly at home.

It was an unexpected feeling for the French chief executive and third-generation leader of the Longchamp family business, who is usually based in Paris.

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