LVMH has completed 12 recorded acquisitions and 0 divestitures or spin-offs, spanning 1988 to 2021.
| Date | Type | Assets | Counterparty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2021 | Acquisition | Tiffany & Co. | Tiffany & Co. (company) | $15.8bn |
| Dec 2013 | Acquisition | Loro Piana | — | €2bn |
| Sep 2011 | Acquisition | Bulgari | — | €4.3bn |
| May 2008 | Acquisition | Hublot | — | undisclosed |
| Nov 1999 | Acquisition | Zenith | — | undisclosed |
| Sep 1999 | Acquisition | TAG Heuer | — | undisclosed |
| Jan 1999 | Acquisition | Krug | — | undisclosed |
| Jan 1997 | Acquisition | Marc Jacobs | — | undisclosed |
| Jul 1996 | Acquisition | Celine | — | undisclosed |
| Jan 1993 | Acquisition | Berluti | — | undisclosed |
| Jan 1988 | Acquisition | Givenchy | — | undisclosed |
| Jan 1988 | Acquisition | Ruinart | — | undisclosed |
LVMH acquired Tiffany & Co. for $131.50 a share after renegotiating down from $135 during the pandemic and settling litigation between the parties. It is the largest acquisition in luxury goods.
LVMH acquired eighty per cent of Loro Piana for about €2 billion, with the founding family retaining the rest. The attraction was control of the supply of the finest cashmere and vicuña wool, which no amount of marketing can substitute for.
LVMH acquired Bulgari for about €4.3 billion, paying largely in shares so that the founding family became a substantial LVMH shareholder rather than simply selling out. It remains one of the largest jewellery acquisitions ever made.
LVMH acquired Hublot, the first house to pair a gold case with a rubber strap, which was considered close to vandalism when it did so in 1980. Its name is French for porthole. The price was not disclosed.
LVMH acquired Zenith, whose El Primero automatic chronograph from 1969 survived only because a watchmaker hid the tooling in an attic when the owners ordered it destroyed during the quartz crisis. The movement is still in production. The price was not disclosed.
LVMH acquired TAG Heuer, which had invented the first automatic chronograph movement in 1969 and timed Formula One races for decades. It was the largest of several watch purchases the group made that year and remains its biggest watch brand by volume. The price was not disclosed here.
LVMH acquired Krug, a champagne house that makes only prestige cuvees with no entry-level bottling at all, fermenting every plot separately in small oak casks before blending. Only the year is documented here and the price was not disclosed.
LVMH took a majority of the Marc Jacobs house and appointed its founder to design ready-to-wear for Louis Vuitton, a role he held for sixteen years. He had been dismissed from Perry Ellis five years earlier over a grunge collection now regarded as a landmark. Only the year is documented here.
LVMH acquired Celine, which had begun in 1945 as a made-to-measure children's shoe shop in Paris before becoming a womenswear house. Successive creative directors have redefined it so completely that its identity is closely tied to whoever is designing. The price was not disclosed.
LVMH acquired Berluti, a Paris bespoke shoemaker founded in 1895 and known for a patination technique that colours leather by hand in layers. It became the group's principal menswear leather house alongside Louis Vuitton. Only the year is documented here.
LVMH acquired Givenchy, the Paris house whose founder had dressed Audrey Hepburn on and off screen for four decades, including the black dress in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hubert de Givenchy stayed to design for a further seven years before retiring. Only the year is documented here and the price was not disclosed.
LVMH acquired Ruinart, the oldest established champagne house, founded in 1729 by the nephew of a monk who had recognised the commercial possibility of sparkling wine. Its chalk cellars in Reims are a UNESCO World Heritage site. Only the year is documented here.
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