The Paris Stock Exchange has carried out a study on the owners of CAC 40 companies. “The weight of families has increased considerably, since they weighed 9.7% of the CAC 40 in 2012, and today it is 21.5%”explains journalist Axel de Tarlé, present on the set of 8 Hours, Thursday, March 9.
The three largest companies in the country (LVMH, L’Oréal and Hermès) are all owned by families. LVMH is owned by the Arnault family in the person of Bernard Arnault, L’Oréal by the Bettencourt Meyers family in the person of Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, and Hermès by the Dumas family, which owns 72% of the company. Hermès is headed by Axel Dumas. “We have a Paris Stock Exchange more and more in luxury and more and more in the family”, continues Axel de Tarlé. Families that concentrate wealth, but have the “long sense of time”A “positive” according to the journalist.
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