Bernard Arnault does not listen to criticism. The first world fortune responded this Thursday to his detractors, judging that “people did not know the economy well” and opposed the economic and social footprint of the group in France.
LVMH has once again broken records, reaching 79,000 million euros in sales and 14,000 million in net profit. The 73-year-old billionaire, who has become the world’s greatest fortune ahead of Elon Musk, head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, according to the Forbes ranking, is for his part the regular target of criticism from politicians or associations . On the occasion of the Davos Forum in mid-January, Oxfam had campaigned in particular to “abolish” billionaires, symbols according to the NGO of economic inequalities.
160,000 people employed indirectly
“This magnificent group that has spectacular results is also a group that has an economic and social footprint for France,” said Bernard Arnault. In 2022, “in France, we are recruiting more than 15,000 people, making the group the leading recruiter in France,” said the CEO of the world’s number one luxury goods company, which recruited 40,000 people worldwide. world in 2022.
Bernard Arnault also listed the 5 billion euros of investment committed to renovate workshops or create them in France, noting that “more than 500 stores and 100 craft production sites have been established in French territories.”
For France, “the total tax footprint, that is, the combination of corporate tax, VAT and LVMH social charges, is more than 4.5 billion euros a year,” he said. LVMH passed the 400 billion-euro threshold in market capitalization in January, a first for a European company.
Source: BFM TV
