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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Is Bigger Still Better? LVMH Faces Its Identity Crisis

When luxury turns from icon to burden

ํฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์ผ๊นŒ? LVMH, ๋ช…ํ’ˆ ์ œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ ์œ„๊ธฐ

'๋ช…ํ’ˆ'์ด ์ƒ์ง•์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

LVMH, the worldโ€™s largest luxury group, is facing a storm. With profits down 22% (H1 2025) and sales slowing in both the U.S. and China, even its most iconic brandโ€”Louis Vuittonโ€”is struggling to hold ground.
์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๋ช…ํ’ˆ ๊ทธ๋ฃน LVMH๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์„ผ ํŒŒ๋„์— ํœ˜๋ง๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 22% ๊ธ‰๋ฝํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์–‘๋Œ€ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๋ถ€์ง„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. LVMH์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ธ ๋ฃจ์ด๋น„ํ†ต๋งˆ์ € ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This isnโ€™t the first time critics have floated the idea of a breakup. The โ€œconglomerate discountโ€ has long haunted LVMHโ€™s valuation, but now, with Hermรจs outperforming others among LVMH portfolio in both profit and prestige, the idea is backโ€”with teeth.
LVMH ๋ถ„ํ• ๋ก ์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋œ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜๋ณตํ•ฉ๊ธฐ์—… ๋””์Šค์นด์šดํŠธโ€™๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ LVMH์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ€์ด์•ก์„ ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—๋ฅด๋ฉ”์Šค๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์œ„์ƒ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ํƒ€ LVMH ๊ณ„์—ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์•ž์ง€๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ถ„ํ• ๋ก ์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํž˜์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Conglomerate Discount (๋ณตํ•ฉ๊ธฐ์—… ๋””์Šค์นด์šดํŠธ)
    When a multi-brand group trades at a lower valuation than its parts would separately.
    โ†’ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ€์น˜์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ฃน ์ „์ฒด ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ.

  • Revenge Spending (๋ณด๋ณต ์†Œ๋น„)
    Post-pandemic luxury surge driven by pent-up demand.
    โ†’ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ์ดํ›„ ์–ต๋ˆŒ๋ ธ๋˜ ์†Œ๋น„ ์š•๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋ช…ํ’ˆ ์†Œ๋น„ ํญ๋ฐœ ํ˜„์ƒ.

  • Succession Planning (์Šน๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ๋„)
    Transition of leadership within family-owned firms, often a source of market anxiety.
    โ†’ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์—์„œ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ๊ต์ฒด ๋ฌธ์ œ. ์‹œ์žฅ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•จ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Once admired for its scale, LVMHโ€™s empire is now showing signs of strain. Consumers are pulling back, younger generations are drinking less, and the groupโ€™s price hikes have pushed its brands closer to โ€œmass luxuryโ€โ€”an uncomfortable place to be.
LVMH์˜ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ํ•œ๋•Œ ๊ฐ•์ ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„๋Š” ์ค„๊ณ , Z์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋œ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ , ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ '๋Œ€์ค‘ ๋ช…ํ’ˆ'์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some investors now see more value in separation. If Louis Vuitton were valued like Hermรจs, its standalone worth could exceed that of the entire LVMH group. Meanwhile, loss-making units like Moรซt Hennessy are dragging the empire down.
์ผ๋ถ€ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ โ€˜๋ถ„๋ฆฌโ€™๊ฐ€ โ€˜๊ฐ€์น˜โ€™๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฃจ์ด๋น„ํ†ต์ด ์—๋ฅด๋ฉ”์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ๋‹จ์ผ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ LVMH ์ „์ฒด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด Moรซt Hennessy ๋“ฑ ๋น„ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ์ „์ฒด์˜ ๋ฐœ๋ชฉ์„ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ break up the empire(์ œ๊ตญ์„ ํ•ด์ฒดํ•˜๋‹ค)
โ€œInvestors are pressuring LVMH to break up the empire to unlock hidden value.โ€
"ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์€ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด LVMH ์ œ๊ตญ ํ•ด์ฒด๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ luxury fatigue(๋ช…ํ’ˆ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ)
โ€œShoppers are showing signs of luxury fatigue after years of overexposure.โ€
"์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์นœ ๋…ธ์ถœ์— ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ succession cloud(์Šน๊ณ„ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ)
โ€œArnaultโ€™s succession cloud looms large as the empire falters.โ€
"์•„๋ฅด๋…ธ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์Šน๊ณ„ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์ด ์œ„๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ unlocking value(์ž ์žฌ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์‹คํ˜„)
โ€œBreaking up could be the only way to unlock true shareholder value.โ€
"์ง„์งœ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ถ„ํ• ์ด ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•ด๋‹ต์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Major media have spotlighted growing investor frustration with LVMHโ€™s underperformance. Commentators argue that splitting off high-performing brands like Louis Vuitton could yield more value. Diageoโ€™s stake in Moรซt Hennessy is frequently cited in speculation over strategic sales.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฃผ์š” ์–ธ๋ก ์€ LVMH์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ถ€์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฃจ์ด๋น„ํ†ต๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๋ถ„์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Diageo(๋””์•„์ง€์˜ค)์˜ ๋ชจ์˜› ํ—ค๋„ค์‹œ(Moรซt Hennessy) ์ง€๋ถ„ ๋ณด์œ ๋„ ์ „๋žต์  ๋งค๊ฐ์„ค์— ๋ถˆ์„ ๋ถ™์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

A brand built on prestige now weighs its parts like assets on a ledger.
When identity meets arithmetic, luxury may choose subtraction over scale.

'์œ„์‹ '์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ์ œ๊ตญ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ˆซ์ž๋กœ ์กด์žฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ์ ธ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ณด๋‹จ '์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ์ง‘์ค‘'โ€”๋ช…ํ’ˆ์ด ๋‚ด๋ ค์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์ ์  ๋” ๋ƒ‰์ •ํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… 1984 โ€“ Bernard Arnault acquires Boussac
The seed of LVMHโ€™s empire was planted. 38 years later, pruning may be on the table.
๐Ÿ“… 1984 โ€“ ๋ฒ„๋‚˜๋“œ ์•„๋ฅด๋…ธ, ๋ถ€์‚ญ ์ธ์ˆ˜
LVMH ์ œ๊ตญ์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๋‚ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  38๋…„ ๋’ค, '๊ฐ€์ง€์น˜๊ธฐ'๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ธˆ๊ธฐ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • LVMH reports 22% profit drop (Reuters, 2025)

  • Hermรจs overtakes LVMH in valuation (Financial Times, 2025)

  • Why younger drinkers are shunning luxury spirits (Bloomberg, 2025)

  • Succession questions cloud LVMH strategy (NYT, 2025)

  • Can Bernard Arnault steer LVMH out of crisis? (The Economist, 2025)

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