François Pinault

François Henri Joseph Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering (Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta) and the investment holding company Groupe Artémis (Château Latour, Christie's, Pinault Collection, Stade Rennais FC, Creative Artists Agency). In the early 1960s, Pinault started a timber-trading business. His company Pinault S.A. was taken public in 1988, and renamed Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) during the 1990s after it had turned into an important retail and distribution company. In 2003, he passed on the management of his companies to his elder son François-Henri. He owns an important collection of contemporary art that is on display in his own museums (Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice, Bourse de commerce in Paris).

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