Yesterday, Bernard Arnault passed Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest person.
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Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault[1] (French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒɑ̃ etjɛn aʁno]; born 5 March 1949) is a French investor, businessman and art collector.[2][3]
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Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault[1] (French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒɑ̃ etjɛn aʁno]; born 5 March 1949) is a French investor, businessman and art collector.[2][3]
He is the chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the world's largest luxury goods company.[4] A centibillionaire, Arnault is one of the wealthiest men in the world according to a 2021 Forbes report.[5]
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault was born on 5 March 1949, in Roubaix, France.[6][7] His mother, Marie-Josèphe Savinel, daughter of Étienne Savinel, had a "fascination for Dior". His father, manufacturer Jean Léon Arnault, a graduate of École Centrale Paris,
owned the civil engineering company Ferret-Savinel.[7]
Arnault was educated at the Lycée Maxence Van Der Meersch in Roubaix, and the Lycée Faidherbe in Lille.[8][9] In 1971, he graduated from the École Polytechnique, France's leading engineering school, and began work for…
Arnault was educated at the Lycée Maxence Van Der Meersch in Roubaix, and the Lycée Faidherbe in Lille.[8][9] In 1971, he graduated from the École Polytechnique, France's leading engineering school, and began work for…
his father's company.[7] Three years later, after he convinced his father to shift the focus of the company to real estate, Ferret-Savinel sold the industrial construction division and was renamed Ferinel.
Following the acquisition of a textile company and relocation of their headquarters, the company renamed the real estate branch to the George V Group. The real estate assets were later sold to Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE), eventually becoming Nexity.
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