Scaling Luxury Brands: Bernard Arnault's Vision

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Natural diseconomies of scale can make luxury products less valuable to the consumer
Luxury businesses were traditionally small and family-owned
Bernard Arnault realized that scaling across a portfolio of brands could be successful for both materials and distribution
His vision was to create a group of brands with shared resources and customer relationships

We tell the full history of LVMH, and how Bernard Arnault turned a $15m investment in a bankrupt French textile company into the world’s largest individual fortune. It’s a story that’s equal parts Berkshire Hathaway, Steve Jobs and Barbarians at the Gate… and wholly under-appreciated for the genius business model innovations that enabled it. Whatever industry you operate or invest in, there’s so much to be learned from Bernard and LVMH’s complete reshaping of the luxury sector over the past three and a half decades. And oh yeah, it also involves Nazi spies, Italian family murders, Rupert Murdoch, Rihanna becoming a billionaire, Jay-Z’s champagne feuds and Beyoncé wearing a 128 carat diamond. Tune in! :)

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