Feb 05 2010
Robert Polet
CEO & Chairman of the Management Board of Gucci Group, Fortune Magazine’s European Businessman of the Year 2007
Robert Polet joined Gucci Group in 2004 after a 26-year career at Unilever, bringing considerable global management experience and a deep knowledge of the development of consumer brands in a multicultural environment. His dynamism has helped turn around luxury goods company Gucci Group and was named as European Businessman of the Year 2007 by Fortune magazine. He encourages the people working with him to break rules and to go outside the box.
“The man who has put the extra into extravagance”
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