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France
Arnault family buys a million LVMH shares as stock price continues to drop

The fall in the luxury giant's share price, aggravated by fresh US tariffs on French wines and spirits, nevertheless allows the Arnault family shareholders to increase their stake in the company, with the aim of crossing the critical threshold of 50%.

Subscribers only 10.04.2025

Switzerland, United States
Legal stunt aimed at Hermès heir Nicolas Puech backfires

Just days after it was filed in the United States, a complaint whose sole aim was to try to show that Nicolas Puech, heir to the Hermès fortune, is still in possession of the group's six million shares that he claims to have lost has been withdrawn.

Subscribers only 07.04.2025

Spotlight | France, Switzerland
War over six million missing Hermès shares goes nuclear

Éric Freymond and Nicolas Puech go head-to-head in a legal battle with numerous twists and turns. © Studio Pachamama

Subscribers only 03.04.2025

France
Wertheimer family increasingly relies on Arthur Heilbronn

The 38-year-old Harvard-educated nephew of Chanel's two executive shareholders has been given increasing responsibility in the vehicles managing the family estate.

Subscribers only 03.04.2025

France
Alexandre Arnault-backed startup placed in compulsory liquidation

Next Decade, a firm providing digital tools to luxury brands like jeweller Lorenz Baümer, went into receivership on 27 January. Alexandre Arnault, deputy CEO of Moët Hennessy and son of Bernard Arnault, had invested in the company in a personal capacity.

Subscribers only 27.03.2025

France
Pinault family treats news journalists to cut-price Courrèges clothes

Reporters at Le Point news magazine have been cordially invited by the holding company of the Pinault family, which owns the magazine and Kering, to sales reserved for the staff of Courrèges, which it also owns.

Subscribers only 27.03.2025

Spotlight | France
Inheritance battle could rock Gucci flagship on Avenue Montaigne

While it awaits the opening of its Paris megastore on Rue St Honoré, the Kering group's flagship brand continues to rely on its Avenue Montaigne store, for which it pays a remarkably low rent. But the owners of the building, one of the best spots in Paris's Golden Triangle, are at each other's throats.

Subscribers only Families 20.03.2025

Italy
Mother of Thom Browne CEO seeks to sell her Zegna shares

While the Zegna family is consolidating its control over the group, a major individual shareholder has decided to sell her stake in the company: Laura N. M. Fonda, whose son heads Zegna-owned fashion brand Thom Browne.

Subscribers only Families 20.03.2025

Front Row | France
Bernard Arnault's nephew Ludovic Watine launches art business

The LVMH boss's nephew may keep a low profile but he juggles several roles within the family firm and its holding companies. He is now embarking on a new venture in the art trade.

Subscribers only Families 20.03.2025

Alongside his role at LVMH, Ludovic Watine, 43, is embarking on a new venture in the art trade.

France
Arnaults not only family getting preferential job treatment at LVMH

In Bernard Arnault's own words, LVHM is a family company. In more senses than one: a third of its executive committee members have found jobs for their offspring in the group, often in the same branch as their parent.

Subscribers only Families 17.03.2025

Spotlight | France, United Kingdom
Ritz Paris hit with first complaint from Al-Fayed victim

Since the BBC's September 2024 revelations that the Egyptian luxury mogul repeatedly abused women working for his companies, the department store Harrods, now in Qatari hands, has so far been the only one subject to legal complaints.

Subscribers only Families 13.03.2025

The world-renowned hotel is the first establishment directly controlled by the Al-Fayed family to be the target of a complaint.

France, Italy
Harry's Bar owners loaned millions by Xavier Niel's family office

Venice's Cipriani dynasty, which owns the original Harry's Bar in the city but has run into financial problems caused by property development by the third generation of the family in Uruguay and Dubai, has been granted a big loan by the family office of French businessman Xavier Niel.

Subscribers only Families 13.03.2025

Front Row | France
Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

The discreet consultant domiciled in Dubai has been in charge of the security detail that protects LVMH's shareholding family for almost a decade. A contract secured by long-standing loyalties.

Subscribers only Families 06.03.2025

Jean-François Rosso, head of Maegis and a close associate of Charles Pellegrini, coordinates security for LVMH's shareholding family.

France
Barrière family keeps the peace with new dividend distribution

For the first time, Alexandre Barrière, CEO of the eponymous hotel group, and his sister Joy Desseigne-Barrière, received more in dividends for the company's last financial year than their father, Dominique Desseigne. This new arrangement is part of a compromise negotiated two years ago to end a family feud.

Subscribers only Families 06.03.2025

France, Luxembourg
Luxury financier Michaël Benabou moves to Luxembourg

After selling his stake in online retailer Veepee in 2014, Michaël Benabou has spent 10 years reinvesting in tech, luxury goods and high-end property. A shareholder in private sales organiser Arlettie and second-hand site Monogram, among others, he is preparing to move his family office to Luxembourg.

Subscribers only Families 06.03.2025

Spotlight | France
Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

The fall in LVMH's share price, from €850 to €690 in just over a year, has allowed the Arnault family to quietly grow its stake in the group, which now sits just below an absolute majority of 50%.

Subscribers only Families 27.02.2025

The fall in LVMH's share price has allowed the Arnault family to quietly grow its stake in the group to almost 50%.

France
Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

After a number of attempted intrusions and burglaries, residents of Paris's Villa Montmorency, among them several wealthy potentates of the luxury goods sector, have hired a security firm which is already protecting their stores on the Avenue Montaigne.

Subscribers only Families 27.02.2025

France
Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

The incorporation of a new holding company to replace the president of the board of the luxury baggage group has reawakened tensions among family shareholders which had been latent in recent years.

Subscribers only Families 20.02.2025

Brunei, France
How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

The Sultan of Brunei, one of the world's leading luxury watch collectors, was seen last month in China with a Tiffany Nautilus watch on his wrist. Only 170 models of the ultra-rare timepiece have been produced but the sultan was helped to get one by the Arnault family, which owns LVMH and Tiffany & Co.

Free access Families 13.02.2025

France
François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault has never shown much interest in the art collection amassed by his father, but his own son, François-Louis Pinault, is playing a discreet and increasingly central role at the Pinault Collection.

Subscribers only Families 06.02.2025

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France
Arnault family buys a million LVMH shares as stock price continues to drop

Switzerland, United States
Legal stunt aimed at Hermès heir Nicolas Puech backfires

Spotlight | France, Switzerland
War over six million missing Hermès shares goes nuclear

France
Wertheimer family increasingly relies on Arthur Heilbronn

France
Alexandre Arnault-backed startup placed in compulsory liquidation

France
Pinault family treats news journalists to cut-price Courrèges clothes

Spotlight | France
Inheritance battle could rock Gucci flagship on Avenue Montaigne

Italy
Mother of Thom Browne CEO seeks to sell her Zegna shares

Front Row | France
Bernard Arnault's nephew Ludovic Watine launches art business

France
Arnaults not only family getting preferential job treatment at LVMH

Spotlight | France, United Kingdom
Ritz Paris hit with first complaint from Al-Fayed victim

France, Italy
Harry's Bar owners loaned millions by Xavier Niel's family office

Front Row | France
Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

France
Barrière family keeps the peace with new dividend distribution

France, Luxembourg
Luxury financier Michaël Benabou moves to Luxembourg

Spotlight | France
Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

France
Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

France
Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

Brunei, France
How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

France
François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

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The geopolitics of fake goods

Brands brave the Wild West of the second-hand market

From the Martinez to Claridge's, hostilities rage between five-star hotel mogul Paddy McKillen and Qatar

Families

France Arnault family buys a million LVMH shares as stock price continues to drop

Switzerland, United States Legal stunt aimed at Hermès heir Nicolas Puech backfires

Spotlight | France, Switzerland War over six million missing Hermès shares goes nuclear

France Wertheimer family increasingly relies on Arthur Heilbronn

France Alexandre Arnault-backed startup placed in compulsory liquidation

France Pinault family treats news journalists to cut-price Courrèges clothes

Spotlight | France Inheritance battle could rock Gucci flagship on Avenue Montaigne

Italy Mother of Thom Browne CEO seeks to sell her Zegna shares

Front Row | France Bernard Arnault's nephew Ludovic Watine launches art business

France Arnaults not only family getting preferential job treatment at LVMH

Spotlight | France, United Kingdom Ritz Paris hit with first complaint from Al-Fayed victim

France, Italy Harry's Bar owners loaned millions by Xavier Niel's family office

Front Row | France Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

France Barrière family keeps the peace with new dividend distribution

France, Luxembourg Luxury financier Michaël Benabou moves to Luxembourg

Spotlight | France Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

France Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

France Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

Brunei, France How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

France François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection

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France
Arnault family buys a million LVMH shares as stock price continues to drop

Switzerland, United States
Legal stunt aimed at Hermès heir Nicolas Puech backfires

Spotlight | France, Switzerland
War over six million missing Hermès shares goes nuclear

France
Wertheimer family increasingly relies on Arthur Heilbronn

France
Alexandre Arnault-backed startup placed in compulsory liquidation

France
Pinault family treats news journalists to cut-price Courrèges clothes

Spotlight | France
Inheritance battle could rock Gucci flagship on Avenue Montaigne

Italy
Mother of Thom Browne CEO seeks to sell her Zegna shares

Front Row | France
Bernard Arnault's nephew Ludovic Watine launches art business

France
Arnaults not only family getting preferential job treatment at LVMH

Spotlight | France, United Kingdom
Ritz Paris hit with first complaint from Al-Fayed victim

France, Italy
Harry's Bar owners loaned millions by Xavier Niel's family office

Front Row | France
Jean-François Rosso, the Arnault family's staunch custodian

France
Barrière family keeps the peace with new dividend distribution

France, Luxembourg
Luxury financier Michaël Benabou moves to Luxembourg

Spotlight | France
Arnault family on the verge of controlling over 50% of LVMH

France
Home to luxury magnates and heirs, Paris's Villa Montmorency tightens up security

France
Goyard capital restructuring fans tensions among family shareholders

Brunei, France
How the Sultan of Brunei got his hands on an ultra-rare Tiffany Nautilus watch

France
François-Louis Pinault plays growing role in family's art collection