Who owns Gucci currently?

Luxury goods company Kering owns Gucci. Kering is headquartered in Paris and is majority-owned by the Pinault family. Kering also owns several other luxury brands, including Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Alexander McQueen, and Saint Laurent.

What brand is Gucci owned by?

The Gucci brand is under the umbrella of Kering, a multinational French company specializing in luxury fashion and jewelry brands.

Does the Gucci family still own Gucci?

The Gucci family no longer owns Gucci. Family involvement in the brand ended in 1993 when Maurizio Gucci sold his stake to Investcorp. Gucci would later go public, and Investcorp would exit its position entirely. Gucci has been fully owned by Kering since 2004.

What brands are under Kering?

Kering specializes in luxury fashion and jewelry. The company's brands include Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, Kering Eyewear and Kering Beauté.

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Key Points

Kering SA owns Gucci; it bought complete ownership in 2004 after a protracted battle with LVMH.
Invest in Gucci by buying Kering shares directly or via ETFs like Vanguard Total International Stock ETF.
Kering’s largest shareholder, Groupe Artémis, controls 42% of the firm, enhancing strategic stability.

The 2021 film House of Gucci depicts the true tale of infighting and murder that arose from the success of a family-owned luxury brand. The real-life drama separated the brand from the Gucci family in the 1990s.

Here, we'll explore who owns Gucci today and how you can invest in this iconic brand.

Who is the owner of Gucci?

Luxury fashion group Kering SA (KER -1.14%) has owned Gucci since 2004. However, the ownership evolution from the founding family to Kering was not straightforward. It was almost as contentious as the Gucci family infighting.

Separation from Gucci family

The ownership transition began in 1987 when investment manager Investcorp bought a 50% stake in Gucci from the founding family. Six years later, Investcorp acquired the remaining 50% from then-chairman Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the founder Guccio Gucci. As told in House of Gucci, Maurizio was murdered two years after selling his stake in the company.

IPO

Gucci went public on the New York and Amsterdam stock exchanges in 1995. Investcorp subsequently sold off its shares, netting more than $1.6 billion from its total investment of $245 million.

Kering vs. LVMH

Kering, formerly Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA (PPR), got involved in Gucci in 1999. Luxury stock rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMHF -1.08%) had been quietly purchasing Gucci shares, amassing a 34% ownership stake. Gucci leadership accused LVMH of stealth takeover tactics and turned to French mogul François Pinault for help.

At the time, Pinault was diversifying and transforming PPR. He had founded the company in 1962 as a timber trading operation, but it had evolved into a retail conglomerate. The Gucci acquisition was an opportunity to complete the transition into luxury goods. Pinault willingly stepped in as Gucci's white knight.

As planned, PPR's investment in Gucci diluted LVMH's ownership position. LVMH took legal action, claiming the PPR arrangement had defrauded Gucci's minority shareholders.

The fight lasted two years, ultimately becoming a personal battle between Pinault and LVMH founder Bernard Arnault. In the end, the courts upheld the PPR investment. In 2001, PPR was authorized to buy half of LVMH's Gucci shares.

Delisting

By 2004, PPR owned 68% of Gucci. PPR acquired the remaining shares through a monthlong tender offer held in April of that year. Gucci was subsequently delisted from the New York and Amsterdam stock exchanges. PPR changed its name to Kering in 2013.

Who are the largest shareholders?

Kering now owns Gucci outright. But who owns Kering? That question has a more complicated answer.

Kering's largest shareholder is Groupe Artémis, which owns 42% of the company. Artémis is a Paris-based investment house owned and controlled by the Pinault family. Gucci's white knight, François Pinault, founded Artemis in 1992. Pinault remains on the Artémis board as a managing partner today. He is also one of the world's richest people.

Kering has roughly 123 million shares outstanding. Artémis' 42% position equates to about 52 million shares. At a stock price of 287 euros (or $335) in late 2025, those shares are worth about 14.9 billion euros (about $17.4 billion) in total.

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Source: kering.com
Name	Role	Board member since
François-Henri Pinault	Chairman	2005
Luca de Meo	CEO	2025
Concetta Battaglia	Director representing employees	2020
Maureen Chiquet	Independent Director	2023
Jean-Pierre Denis	Director and Climate Change Lead	2008
Yonca Dervisoglu	Independent Director	2022
Dominique D’Hinnin	Independent Director	2024
Rachel Duan	Independent Director	2024
Giovanna Melandri	Independent Director	2024
Baudouin Prot	Director	2005
Vincent Schaal	Director representing employees	2022
Héloïse Temple-Boyer	Permanent representative of Financière Pinault	2018
Véronique Weill	Lead Independent Director	2022
Serge Weinberg	Independent Director	2022

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