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François Pinault
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François Pinault

Entrepreneur · Kering · born August 21, 1936

$29.7Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

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François Henri Joseph Pinault is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Groupe Artémis. In the early 1960s, Pinault started a timber-trading business.

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  1. ~19Founded Kering1955

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2019$29.7BForbes · current

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