Compagnie Financière Richemont SA engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of luxury goods. It operates through the following segments: Jewellery Maisons, Specialist Watchmakers, Online Distributors, and Other. The Jewellery Maisons segment produces jewellery products which include Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. The Specialist Watchmakers segment offers precision timepieces, which comprises Piaget, A. Lange & Sohne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, Officine Panerai, IWC Schaffhausen, Baume & Mercier, and Roger Dubuis. The online Distributors segment relates to online sale of luxury goods through YNAP and Watchfinder. The Other segment includes Montblanc, Alfred Dunhill, Chloé, Peter Millar, Azzedine Alaia, investment property companies, and other manufacturing entities. The company was founded by Johann P. Rupert in September 1988 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Switzerland.
