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Compagnie Financière Richemont
Type	Public (SIX: CFR)
Founded	1988
Founder(s)	Anton Rupert
Headquarters	Geneva, Switzerland
Key people	Johann Rupert (Executive chairman), Norbert Platt (CEO)
Industry	Luxury goods
Products	Fashion, accessories, watches, jewellery, writing instruments
Revenue	€5.302 billion (2008)
Operating income	▲ €1.108 billion (2008)
Profit	▲ €1.571 billion (2008)
Employees	18,800 (2008)
Website	www.richemont.com

For other uses, see Richemont (disambiguation).

Compagnie Financière Richemont SA is a Swiss luxury goods company that was founded in 1988 by the late South African billionaire businessman, Anton Rupert. It has four main business areas: jewellery, watches, writing instruments and clothing. The company is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and on the JSE Securities Exchange. It is the eighth biggest company in the Swiss Market Index. As of 2007, it is the third-largest luxury goods company in the world by turnover, behind LVMH and PPR, its two main competitors in the luxury goods market. In March 2007, Richemont and Polo Ralph Lauren announced the formation of a joint venture, the Polo Ralph Lauren Watch and Jewellery Company, S.A.R.L., of which each company will own 50 percent.

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Principal companies in the group are:

Cartier - jewellery, watches, etc. French company, watches Swiss-made
Van Cleef & Arpels - jewellery, watches, etc.
Piaget - jewellery, watches
Vacheron Constantin - Swiss watches
A. Lange & Söhne - German watches
Jaeger-LeCoultre - Swiss watches
Officine Panerai - Italian watches
International Watch Co - Swiss watches, American-founded
Baume et Mercier - watches, Swiss-assembled, some outsourcing of components
Montblanc - German writing instrument manufacturer
Alfred Dunhill
Lancel
Chloé
Roger Dubuis - Swiss watches
James Purdey and Sons - a British gunmaker of London, and the name is synonymous with the very finest sporting shotguns and rifles^[2].^[3].
Montegrappa - Italian writing instrument manufacturer
Shanghai Tang - Modern Chinese fashion store chain (Richemont is a 'significant' shareholder [1])

All companies are fully owned subsidiaries.

[edit] Former companies

Hackett - Richemont acquired Hackett in 1992. It was announced in early June 2005 that Richemont had sold Hackett to Torreal, a Spanish investment company.
Reinet Investments - including Richemont's stake in British American Tobacco. It was spun off from Richemont in 2008.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Report 2008" (PDF). Richemont. http://www.richemont.com/annualReport/2008/Richemont_AR.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
^ Ten of the world's finest shotguns cnn.com 24 January, 2008
^ The world's 20 best shotguns: Purdey side-by-side self-opening sidelockThe Field magazine, 06 November 2007

[edit] External links

Official site

Companies portal

[AR2008-0] "Annual Report 2008" (PDF). Richemont. http://www.richemont.com/annualReport/2008/Richemont_AR.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-28.

[1] Ten of the world's finest shotguns cnn.com 24 January, 2008

[2] The world's 20 best shotguns: Purdey side-by-side self-opening sidelockThe Field magazine, 06 November 2007

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