Today in luxury marketing:
LVMH acquires majority stake in Cova
LVMH, the world’s largest luxury goods group, has bought a majority stake in Milanese coffee house Cova, once the haunt of composers Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi, located at the center of the city’s costly “golden grid” of luxury shopping streets, per the Financial Times.
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