Groupe Artémis is a French investment holding with a portfolio in fashion (

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), wine ( including Château Latour), art (

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, Pinault Collection), sports (

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) and entertainment (

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). Headquartered in

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, Groupe Artémis was founded by

François Pinault François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis. Pinault started his business in the timber industry in the early 1960s. Taken public i ...

in 1992.

History

In 1992, the French entrepreneur

transferred his majority stake in Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR, renamed

in 2013) to his new company, Groupe Artémis, created as a family investment vehicle. Throughout the 1990s, he engaged in a series of prestigious acquisitions. The acquisition of Château Latour (Pauillac-Médoc) in 1993 was the first of a series under the label. Artémis Domaines was restructured in 2022 after the acquisition of Bouchard Père et Fils. Groupe Artémis bought the news magazine ''

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'' in 1997, the auction house

and the

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soccer team

in 1998, and the book-publishing company Éditions Tallandier in 1999. In May 2003,

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took over the presidency of Artémis. In 2005, Groupe Artémis acquired the

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in Venice, which reopened in 2006 as the first exhibition site of Pinault Collection. Pinault Collection inaugurated the Punta della Dogana in Venice in 2009 and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris in 2021. Artémis acquired 40.9% of Courrèges in 2014 (100% in 2018) and the luxury cruise operator Ponant in 2015. In 2017, the group launched the tech investment company Red River West and acquired the couture house

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. In 2018, Artémis acquired the magazine ' (royal family news) and bought 29% of Puma from Kering. In 2019, the Pinault family, through Artémis, pledged to donate 100 million euros for the reconstruction of

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after the

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. In 2023, Artémis acquired a majority stake in the talent and sports agency

(CAA) for an estimated $7 billion, "a deal that shows the ever-growing convergence of fashion and fame" according to ''

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''.

Investments

Groupe Artémis is headquartered in Paris, France, and is 100% owned by Financière Pinault. Its president has been

since 2003. Groupe Artémis invests in the following companies: Artémis developed a portfolio of tech startups specialized in fashion (

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), farming ( Bowery Farming), news ('','' '), cars ( Delage), music (

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Groupe Artemis Companies based in Paris French companies established in 1992 Holding companies established in 1992 Pinault family Holding companies of France Investment management companies of France