France

What Decathlon costs in India, who is legally answerable for its goods, and why its British product pages carry test figures its Indian ones do not. An honest brand audit.

Givenchy Beauty is LVMH-owned with no licensee, but the company importing it into India is a Chalhoub Group arm named on 12 of 13 product declarations.

Chanel Beauty declares origin and importer on every Indian listing and a factory on most of them. Prices run from 12.9% cheaper than America to 24.3% dearer.

Who runs Goyard, what its French accounts show, where its workshops are, why it has no Indian boutique or published price, and what its no-authentication policy means for Indian buyers.

Who owns Bell & Ross, what Chanel’s reported stake amounts to, how the watches reach India through Ethos, what the warranty covers and what the pages say about movements and prices.

Who owns Louis Vuitton, why LVMH publishes no revenue figure for the brand, the Indian company that sells it, why orders go by telephone, what the Neverfull costs here, where the bags are made and what the Delhi courts have decided.

What Chanel’s owner publishes and why every figure here comes from its results release rather than the accounts filed in London, the Indian subsidiary a tribunal calls a distributor, why only one of six Indian counters sells a bag, what the house charges where it does publish a price, where the bags are made and what Chanel will check.

Which company actually owns Dior, why neither LVMH nor its listed parent publishes a revenue figure for the house, the Indian company on the register, why dior.com/en_in has no price or checkout, who sells the 13 Myntra listings, where the bags are made, and what the Milan court and Italy’s competition authority decided.

Kering published Saint Laurent’s revenue for the last time in 2025 — €2,643 million at a 20.0% margin — and now breaks out Gucci alone. In India the house runs no website, sets no price and keeps two boutiques, while 433 listings trade under its name on Myntra through two Delhi companies.

Celine is the one big European leather house whose Indian storefront takes rupee orders, and the seller of record is a Paris company under French law. What LVMH publishes about the house, why there is no Indian company or grievance officer, the rupee price with no MRP or tax line beside it, where the bags are made, and why the Aura members page names four LVMH houses and not this one.

Who owns Hermes and what its own filings publish, why there is no Indian website, checkout or price, the two stores on the locator against three in the 2025 filing, the twenty-fifth leather workshop and six French tanneries behind the “exclusively in France” claim, and the Delhi High Court ruling of 24 November 2025 on the Birkin shape.

Who owns Balenciaga and why Kering has never published a revenue line for it, why the house has no Indian locale, price or store on its own locator, who sells and imports the 527 Myntra listings, what the shelf costs here, where the bags are made, and the French jury decision of 6 February 2023.

Kering owns the Yves Saint Laurent name; L’Oréal bought the beauty business in 2008 and runs it under licence. What that split means for Indian prices, importers and shade counts.