Hermes’ Controlling Shareholders Plan to Meet on Stake, JDD Says
Hermes International SCA’s controlling family shareholders will meet Dec. 3 to discuss how the family can keep control over the luxury goods maker, Le Journal du Dimanche reported, citing people it didn’t identify.
The so-called “family council,” which deliberates after the purchase of a 17 percent stake by rival LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, will discuss two scenarios that may allow the family to maintain control, the newspaper reported.
Family members could place their stock in an unlisted holding company or sign a pact with a newly created company, according to the report. Members of the company’s founding families will be asked to give up some of their rights to sell shares, according to the report.
LVMH, the world’s largest luxury-goods maker, said last month it may buy more Hermes shares after building up a stake in Hermes via equity swaps.
To contact the reporter on this story: Tara Patel in Paris at tpatel2@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Will Kennedy at wkennedy3@bloomberg.net
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