French luxury conglomerate LVMH saw its stock slide by more than 6% following the Tuesday evening reveal of its 2024 annual results.
Following Meta’s layoffs earlier this month, Arnault, the head of the luxury goods conglomerate that controls brands like Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Sephora, likened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s move to let go of low-performing workers to layoffs at Tiffany’s.
Bernard Arnault, in an LVMH earnings call, used a bizarre new term for tech layoffs when referencing a conversation with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.
Arnault announced that world-famous jewelers Tiffany & Co will be laying off or “promoting outwards” underperforming workers.
"It's clear that we are being strongly pushed by the American authorities to continue to build out our presence," Bernard Arnault told reporters.
Government spokesperson Sophie Primas replied saying that 'everybody must do their bit,' although she conceded that she understood his 'anger.'
Bernard Arnault lost a spot in the billionaire rankings after LVMH Moet Hennessy posted results that weren’t as strong as some luxury-goods rivals.
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Bernard Arnault, the billionaire chairman of luxury goods giant LVMH, has voiced his dissatisfaction with France’s economic direction. The 75-year-old,
He’s someone Trump really looks up to and wants to make happy,” a source said of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, the wealthiest man in France.
Luxury giant LVMH is "seriously considering" bulking up its production capacities in the United States, CEO Bernard Arnault said on Tuesday, praising a "wind of optimism" in the country that contrasted with the "cold shower" of potentially higher corporate taxes in France.
There’s a different mood” between the two countries, said the French billionaire. Read more at straitstimes.com.