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BILLIONAIRE SUCCESS STORY
Bernard Arnault - Louis Vuitton
Born: March 5, 1949
Age: 59
Country Of Citizenship: France
Residence: Paris , France, Europe & Russia
Occupation: Chairman, LVMH;
Chairman, Christian Dior SA
Net worth: $26 billion US dollar
Fortune: Inherited and growing
Source: LVMH
Industry: Diversified
Marital Status: Married, 5 children
Education: Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Website: LVMH.com
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Bernard Arnault was born in 5th March 1949. He is the 7th richest person in the world and France's richest person with an estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars, according to a Forbes report in March 2007.
Arnault is best known for turning LVMH, already a luxury-goods giant when he won control in 1989, into a global empire through acquisitions, savvy marketing, and bold design.
Bernard Arnault is a native of Roubaix, and graduated with an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique in 1971. In 2007, Arnault was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. He also Said to be a skilled pianist.
At 35, using a combination of family money and loans, he bought Boussac, a bankrupt French textile group that had financed Christian Dior's original fashion house in 1946. Arnault stripped Boussac down to Dior and used it as a vehicle to create LVMH, which was born out of the 1987 merger between Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessy. Once in control, Arnault fired executives of both companies, put in his own team, then spent the '90s snatching up still more luxury brands, including shirtmaker T ...