Compagnie Financière Richemont SA

Compagnie Financière Richemont SA

Type	Public
Traded as	SIX: CFR, JSE: CFR
Industry	Management
Predecessor	Rembrandt Group Limited
Founded	Geneva, Switzerland (1988 (1988))
Founder	Johann Rupert
Headquarters	Bellevue, Switzerland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Johann Rupert, Chairman
Services	Management Logistics
Revenue	€10.647 billion (2017) €11.076 billion (2016)
Operating income	€1.764 billion (2017) €2.061 billion (2016)
Profit	€1.210 billion (2017) €2.227 billion (2016)
Total assets	€20.160 billion (2017) €20.125 billion (2016)
Total equity	€15.529 billion (2017) €15.047 billion (2016)
Owner	Compagnie Financière Rupert (9.1%)
Number of employees	28,580 (2017) 28,810 (2016)
Divisions	Jewellery Maisons Specialist Watchmakers Other Businesses
Subsidiaries	See article section
Website	richemont.com

Compagnie Financière Richemont SA is a Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by South African businessman Johann Rupert. Through its various subsidiaries, Richemont designs, manufactures, distributes and sells premium jewellery, watches, leather goods, writing instruments, firearms, clothing and accessories. Richemont is publicly traded as CFR on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the JSE Securities Exchange.

The brands it owns include A. Lange & Söhne, Azzedine Alaïa, Baume & Mercier, Cartier, Chloé, Dunhill, IWC Schaffhausen, Giampiero Bodino, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lancel, Montblanc, Officine Panerai, Piaget, Peter Millar, Purdey, Roger Dubuis, Shanghai Tang, Vacheron Constantin, and Van Cleef & Arpels.

As of November 2012^[update], Compagnie Financière Richemont SA is the sixth largest corporation by market capitalization in the Swiss Market Index. As of 2014, Richemont is the second-largest luxury goods company in the world after LVMH.