Succession at LVMH? We Don’t Talk About It, Says Arnault’s Wife

Succession plans at luxury giant LVMH are seldom discussed within the controlling Arnault family, according to remarks by CEO Bernard Arnault’s wife published in France’s Liberation newspaper on Thursday.

In corporate Europe, questions have long swirled around who will succeed France’s wealthiest man Arnault, 76, who is also chairman of LVMH and, along with his family, a controlling shareholder.

“It’s a topic that the two of us almost never discuss,” his wife Helene Mercier told…