(Bloomberg Opinion) — Like expensive gems, luxury goods companies have scarcity value. If Bernard Arnault’s LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE is allowed to get its hands on Tiffany & Co., the American jeweler is unlikely to come up for sale again. That’s something LVMH’s biggest rivals, Kering SA and Cie Financiere Richemont SA, might want to consider carefully.Financially they could both afford to make counterbids for Tiffany. An offer from either Cartier-owning Richemont or Gucci-owning Kering at the $120 per share price proposed by Arnault would lift their net debt to about 2.5 times Ebitda. That’s not too much …read more
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