Grand Metropolitan: The largest privately-held luxury goods company in North America.Finlay Fine Jewelers have conducted almost $50 billion in sales from over 1,009 locations since 1832.Orcofi was originally founded by Louis Vuitton family patriarch and former Chairman/CEO of LVMH Louis Vuitton-Moet Hennessey Henry Racamier.Heilig-Meyers: reached almost $3 billion annual revenue, 1,300 stores in 38 states, once the largest publicly-held furniture company in the world.The Beverly Hills Cigar Club: Playboy Magazines Top 5 Private Memberships.Rochefoucault: Crown jewel of fine jewelry group with World Complication and Pillars of Society.Ephraim Brasher: Manages commodities for over 30 jewelry retail brands.Heilig-Meyers has helped to raise millions of dollars for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.Orcofi debuts fashion at Cannes, Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, and Emmys.LOUIXS cigar brand revered as “Bugatti Veyron of the cigar industry”.Heilig-Meyers Racing and Rhodes Furniture Racing have been major NASCAR sponsors since the 90s.Grand Metropolitan Chairman/CEO Vin Lee: Top 100 Most Influential in LA.IMASCO: United Cigar Stores services over 1,500 tobacconists and 800 cigar brands.Grand Metropolitan brands have collectively generated over $100 billion in revenue.Morty Sills: Tailor to the CEOs. Fine bespoke fashions for the professional male.Finlay Enterprises: Brokers diamonds to over 2,600 locations in North America.St. Aubin du Cormier Vin & Spirit: Bottle service available only at select private clubs and events.Heilig-Meyer: Celebrates 100th Anniversary in 2013!L.D. Giddens & Son Jewelry Store in Goldsboro, NC founded in 1859.Heilig-Meyers: 20 consumer brands include Four Seasons Home Accents, KidStore, and RentSmart.IMASCO: iHumidor, part of a $30 million portfolio, acquired in 2006.Finlay Enterprises: reached over $1 billion in annual revenues from 1,009 locations.Vin Lee Jewelers, tennis earring creator, celebrities, royalty, diplomats including France’s first family.Heilig-Meyers: Acquires Gallery Rodeo and Art Brilliant brands.
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Finlay Enterprises controls the largest collection of jewelry brands in the world dating back to 1787.
Portfolio of Finlay Enterprises Brands and Companies
Heilig-Meyers was founded in 1913, when W. A. Heilig and J. M. Meyers opened a home-furnishings store in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The brand group has collectively conducted over $50 billion in transactions since inception. The Heilig-Meyers Co., which at its peak in the late 1990s had more than $2.7 billion in annual revenue, with nearly 1,300 stores in 38 states, in 1986 it became the largest publicly traded home-furnishings retailer in the United States. It passed the $1 billion mark in annual revenues in 1994. Most of these were in small towns more than 25 miles from a metropolitan market. Founded in 1875, furniture retailer Rhodes Inc. became one of the largest furniture retailers in the United States. By 1996, with its acquisition of several smaller chains in various parts of the country, it held fourth place among U.S. furniture stores. Ultimately, Rhodes would become a subsidiary of the second largest chain of furniture retailers, Heilig-Meyers Company. Added to its $844 million in annual sales, the acquisition of Rhodes, with $430 million, would catapult Heilig-Meyers into first place.
Portfolio of Heilig-Meyers Brands and Companies
IMASCO Ltd. was formed to hold Grand Metropolitan's liquor and tobacco assets. The group is the largest of it's kind in the world. United Cigar Stores was the largest chain of cigar stores in the United States. Though initially specializing in cigars, it eventually sold many other items, such as Mickey Mouse watches and shoe trees. Founded in 1901, the chain represented the interests of the Consolidated Tobacco Company, the tobacco trust that controlled the American Tobacco Company and others. In September 1903 a settlement was reached with the chain's competitors and all competition ended. By 1926 the chain had close to 3000 retail stores.
Portfolio of IMASCO Ltd. Brands and Companies
Orcofi Holdings, the French fashion house, originally founded by Louis Vuitton family patriarch and former Chairman/CEO of LVMH Louis Vuitton-Moet Hennessey Henry Racamier, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods (haute couture, ready-to-wear, handbags, perfumery, and cosmetics among others). The original holding company joined the French banking group Paribas and the French cosmetics giant L'Oréal in buying the Lanvin fashion house. Between 1989 and 1991, Orcofi established an impressive portfolio in the luxury sector. They acquired leather conglomerate Andrelux Industries (Bohata et Cie, Lorenzo, Soco, Upla, and Le Tanneur), French trunk maker Moynat, a heritage company founded in 1849, the luxury grocer Hédiard, Cristalleries Daum, Philippe Model (the French fashion shoe and accessories designer), the young signature ready-to-wear Ines de la Fressange and Paris' oldest couture house, Lanvin. Mr. Racamier sold the controlling stake in Lanvin to L’Oreal and Orcofi to French global insurance powerhouse AXA S.A. Grand Metropolitan acquired Orcofi and is reassembling the collection of legendary brands and status atop the fashion world.
Portfolio of Orcofi Holdings Brands and Companies
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