Benjamin Vuchot

Chairman and Chief Executive, DFS Group

 

Benjamin Vuchot heads the world’s top luxury travel retailer as its centre of gravity shifts east

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The chairman and chief executive of DFS Group, Benjamin Vuchot assumed the role in 2020, having previously worked as North Asia president at the world’s leading luxury travel retailer from 2011 to 2017. In the interim he was Asia president for cosmetics and fragrance retailer Sephora, another member of the LVMH stable.

Before his first spell at DFS, which is increasingly focused on Chinese customers, with a particularly extensive presence of seven outlets in Macau, he spent nine years as Asia-Pacific president of Van Cleef & Arpels and before that worked for seven years at Cartier. He is also an Asia board member of FilmAid, an NGO that uses film to educate and entertain marginalised people. Born in Paris, he moved to Hong Kong in the 1990s. He is married to Asia Art Archive co-founder and co-chair Claire Hsu; the couple has three daughters.

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In 2021, DFS and Shenzhen Duty Free Group opened the first phase of a giant duty free complex in Haikou Mission Hills, Hainan, which will eventually cover more than 300,000 sq ft.

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