"His catwalk moment kicked off in New York with a show by Carolina Herrera, which Puig acquired back in 1995. The Puigs also own five other fashion houses including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci, Rabanne, and Dries Van Noten, whose fragrance businesses are the heart of a company that now ranks amongst the top luxury groups on the planet. In 2023, Puig scored a 19 percent increase in annual revenues to €4.3bn (approx. $5.1bn), and a 33 percent rise in EBITDA to €849m (approx. $1bn)."
"A classic Catalan, Marc Puig is a mixture of brimming self-confidence and quiet self-deprecation. When asked about the origin of the company by Antonio Puig Castelló in Barcelona back in 1914, Puig says: "My great grandfather was a farmer in a little town north of Barcelona," whose potatoes' early season growth made them popular in Britain. He was sent by his father to the UK to finish his studies, where he began importing fragrances he discovered in London back to Spain."
Puig is a family-controlled luxury group built around fragrance businesses and multiple fashion houses, including Carolina Herrera, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci, Rabanne, and Dries Van Noten. The group reported a 19 percent revenue increase to €4.3bn and a 33 percent EBITDA rise to €849m in 2023, with market capitalization at €15.8bn as of January. The Puig family holds 74 percent of shares and 93 percent of voting rights. The brand portfolio spans scent houses L'Artisan Parfumeur, Penhaligon's, Byredo, skincare lines like Kama Ayurveda and Apivita, and makeup label Charlotte Tilbury. Company origins trace to Antonio Puig Castelló in 1914 and early UK fragrance imports, and 1939 autarky prompted the first scent Agua Lavanda.
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