How it started
History
In 1992, the French entrepreneur François Pinault transferred his majority stake in Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR, renamed Kering in 2013) to his new company, Groupe Artémis, created as a family investment vehicle. Throughout the 1990s, he engaged in a series of prestigious acquisitions.
The acquisition of Château Latour (Pauillac-Médoc) in 1993 was the first of a series under the Artémis Domaines label. Artémis Domaines was restructured in 2022 after the acquisition of Bouchard Père et Fils.
Groupe Artémis bought the news magazine Le Point in 1997, the auction house Christie's and the Ligue 1 soccer team Stade Rennais FC in 1998, and the book-publishing company Éditions Tallandier in 1999.
In May 2003, François-Henri Pinault took over the presidency of Artémis.
In 2005, Groupe Artémis acquired the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, which reopened in 2006 as the first exhibition site of Pinault Collection. Pinault Collection inaugurated the Punta della Dogana in Venice in 2009 and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris in 2021.
From Wikipedia’s article on Groupe Artémis, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2