Gucci's Online Sales More Than Double

  • Kering’s comparable sales rose 37 percent in first quarter
  • Gucci designer Michele’s creations drawing young shoppers
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Kering SA rose after the luxury company’s white-hot Gucci brand kept up its relentless growth pace at the start of the year, with online sales more than doubling in the first quarter.

The Paris-based company’s shares rose as much as 6.1 percent early Wednesday after it said comparable sales grew 37 percent in first quarter. Analysts had expected a 23 percent increase.