Puig (company)

Puig

Industry	Fashion and fragrance
Founded	1914
Founder	Antonio Puig
Headquarters	Barcelona, Spain
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Marc Puig (CEO)
Products	Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera, Paco Rabanne, Jean Paul Gaultier, Prada, Valentino, Comme des Garçons, Antonio Banderas, Shakira, Mango, Adolfo Dominguez, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Massimo Dutti, Victorio & Lucchino
Revenue	€1.64 billion (2015)
Profit	€126 million (2015)
Number of employees	4,483
Website	puig.com

Puig is a Spanish company operating in the fashion and fragrance sectors. The company was founded in 1914 by Antoni Puig i Castelló in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain . The company is still managed by the Puig family.

Puig markets its products in 150 countries and is directly present in 22 of them, employing 4,483 people worldwide. In 2015, it reached €1.645 billion in net revenues and €126 million in net income.

Both in the fashion and fragrances sector, Puig operates under the Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera, and Paco Rabanne brands. In the fashion industry, it is also the majority shareholder of Jean Paul Gaultier. In perfumes it also operates under the license of the brands Comme des Garçons, Prada, Penhaligon's, L'Artisan Parfumeur and Valentino, amongst others.

The company's origins date back to 1914 when Antonio Puig Castelló founded the company. Initially the company took the name of its founder, being called Antonio Puig SA. From the beginning, the company oriented its business towards the cosmetic and fragrance sectors.

In 1922 the company marketed Milady, the first lipstick made in Spain.

In the 1940s the company started marketing the fragrance Agua Lavanda Puig, which became one of the flagship products of the company. During those same years, the founder Antonio Puig decided to move the factory and offices to a building located in Travessera de Gràcia street, in the Gràcia district in Barcelona, where the headquarters of the company still remain today.