Kering SA is a family-controlled luxury group headquartered at 40 rue de Sevres in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris (ticker KER), where it belongs to the CAC 40. It does not sell products under the Kering name. Instead it owns and runs fashion houses (Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni), jewelers (Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo, Qeelin), the tableware house Ginori 1735 and Kering Eyewear. It had 43,731 employees at the end of 2025 and a market value of roughly EUR 27-30 billion in September 2026, far below its 2021 peak. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.
Kering makes money by selling high-priced fashion, leather goods, shoes, jewelry and eyewear under brands it owns outright. Most revenue comes through its own directly operated stores and e-commerce, which lets the houses control pricing and keep the full retail margin; wholesale, licensing and royalties make up the rest. The group is organized into three operating segments: Kering Fashion & Leather Goods (Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni), Kering Jewelry (Boucheron, Pomellato, DoDo, Qeelin) and Kering Eyewear, which designs and distributes eyewear for Kering houses and outside brands such as Cartier, Valentino, Lindberg and Maui Jim. Since March 2026, beauty is handled through long-term licenses with L'Oreal rather than in-house, so Kering earns royalties from fragrance and cosmetics instead of running the factories. In H1 2026, Fashion & Leather Goods produced ~$6.55 billion (EUR 5.80 billion) of the ~$8.16 billion (EUR 7.22 billion) group revenue, Eyewear ~$1.09 billion (EUR 965 million) and Jewelry ~$589 million (EUR 521 million).