luxury brands

Keeping watch: Piaget CEO Chabi Nouri eyes e-commerce growth

With almost 150 years of history behind it, Piaget is a Swiss watchmaking institution. CEO Chabi Nouri’s focus on e-commerce and emerging market trends is helping to ensure the brand will be around for many years to come

Luxury goods market finally set for digital shake-up

After many years of reticence, the €262bn luxury goods market is finally moving online. Courtney Goldsmith investigates how traditional luxury brands are beginning to cash in on e-commerce

Lifestyle for rent – luxury brands courtesy of the sharing economy

Luxury goods have always been a status symbol, but as consumer trends shift from ownership to experience, people are increasingly happy to buy temporary access to such items

Welcome to the world of cryptocurrency millionaires

As the value of cryptocurrencies soared last year, a subculture previously confined to the dark corners of the internet entered the mainstream

The new black: Axel Dumas leads luxury giant Hermès to record profit

Appointed in the midst of a dramatic family feud, Axel Dumas has guided Hermès International through a series of heated legal battles – achieving record profits along the way

Birth of a legend – the Leica story

Leica cameras were the chief tool used to document the 20th century, one of the most tumultuous periods in human history. Photography as we know it today would simply not exist without Oskar Barnack’s humble invention

Marco Bizzarri is dragging Gucci into the digital future

Marco Bizzarri is writing a new chapter at Gucci, where he has set about freeing the brand from its adherence to tradition

Jean-Christophe Babin

TAG Heuer president and CEO Jean-Christophe Babin has an eye for precision and innovation

Swatch stock nose dives

Luxury watch maker takes hit in struggling industry

Bernard Fornas

It is difficult to know whether to pity or envy Bernard Fornas, Chief Executive of Cartier, one of the world’s oldest and most exclusive brands of jewellery and watches. Since he took over as President and Chief Executive in 2002 the company has seen more economically bad times than good, which have driven its traditional […]

Francesco Trapani

Bulgari’s boss thinks ten years ahead

Awards Supplement 2023

The European CEO awards 2023 have now been announced, presenting our pick of the CEOs, companies and campaigns leading their sectors.