On July 2, 1932, André Deraisme on behalf of Aux États-Unis created a new company, the Coopération Industrielle et Commerciale ("CIC"), in partnership with the directors of the four other trunk-makers of the time (Louis Vuitton, Goyard, Moynat, et Au Départ) in the face of the economic crisis.
The five "Maisons" joined forces, notably for the purchase of raw materials and travel items and for patent registrations.
The British Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of Manchester, the Duke of Windsor, and the Duke of Westminster; Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein, the King of Albania, the Maharaja of Jaipur, Maharaja of Mysore and Maharaja of Kapurthala; French President Léon Blum, Prime Minister of Belgium Henry Carton de Wiart, Ohio Governor Myron T. Herrick, New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, the Prince de Bitteto, and the Princesse de Faucigny Lucinge.
Lady Mendl, Conan Doyle, Fernand Gravey, Henri Bernstein, and Gilbert Miller.
British explorer and missionary David Livingstone, the jeweler Jacques Cartier, violinist Jules Boucherit, Diana Vreeland, Pecci Blunt, William Boyce Thompson, American billionaire Moses Taylor, Lady Eve Balfour, John Gardner Coolidge, and the Vanderbilts.