🇫🇷 French brands and who owns them
Of 78 French consumer brands tracked here, 35 (45%) are owned by companies headquartered outside France, most often in the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
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78
French brands
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35
foreign-owned · 45%
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43
domestically owned
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13
French brand owners
Who bought the French brands?
| Owner country | Brands | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 French brands owned by American companies | 11 | Darphin (Estée Lauder), Filorga (Colgate-Palmolive), Grey Poupon (Kraft Heinz), HOKA (Deckers Brands), LU (Mondelēz) |
| 🇬🇧 French brands owned by British companies | 7 | Axe (Unilever), Chanel (Chanel), Chanel No. 5 (Chanel), Cif (Unilever), Cîroc (Diageo) |
| 🇨🇭 French brands owned by Swiss companies | 5 | Cartier (Richemont), Chocapic (Nestlé), Perrier (Nestlé), Van Cleef & Arpels (Richemont), Vittel (Nestlé) |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 4 | Carte d'Or (The Magnum Ice Cream Company), Desperados (Heineken), Grand Marnier (Campari Group), L'OR (JDE Peet's) |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 2 | Carte Noire (Lavazza), Harrys (Barilla) |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 2 | Jean Paul Gaultier (Puig), Nina Ricci (Puig) |
| 🇧🇲 Bermuda | 1 | Grey Goose (Bacardi) |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 1 | Kronenbourg 1664 (Carlsberg) |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | 1 | Orangina (Suntory) |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | 1 | Salomon (Amer Sports) |
French companies that own brands
- L'Oréal · 20 brands
- Danone · 12 brands
- LVMH · 11 brands
- Pernod Ricard · 11 brands
- Groupe SEB · 7 brands
- Lactalis · 6 brands
- Kering · 6 brands
- Rémy Cointreau · 6 brands
- Bel Group · 5 brands
- Decathlon · 4 brands
- BIC · 3 brands
- Hermès · 2 brands
- Carrefour · 1 brands