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French luxury conglomerate LVMH saw its stock slide by more than 6% following the Tuesday evening reveal of its 2024 annual results.

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Following Meta’s layoffs earlier this month, Arnault, the head of the luxury goods conglomerate that controls brands like Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Sephora, likened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s move to let go of low-performing workers to layoffs at Tiffany’s.

LVMH’s sales of fashion and leather goods declined in the fourth quarter, casting doubt on the prospects for a quick recovery in luxury demand.

PARIS (Reuters) - LVMH has made a good start to 2025, CEO Bernard Arnault said on Tuesday, after the luxury conglomerate posted a slight rise in fourth-quarter sales, though analysts cautioned it may still fall short of heightened market expectations after recent share gains.

Luxury giant LVMH is "seriously considering" bulking up its production capacities in the United States, CEO Bernard Arnault said on Tuesday, praising a "wind of optimism" in the country that contrasted with the "cold shower" of potentially higher corporate taxes in France.

While LVMH's results "challenge the sector narrative that all luxury companies have seen the acceleration" seen at Richemont and Burberry, it reinforces the idea of a quicker recovery this year than expected in October, analysts at Deutsche Bank said in a note to clients.

LVMH shares dropped as slightly better-than-expected full-year results from the world’s largest luxury company threw doubt over a broader sector recovery.

(Reuters) - Shares in LVMH fell in early Frankfurt trading on Wednesday, as sales growth posted by the luxury goods group failed to impress investors, following a string of strong results from rivals and recent price gains.

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