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This investment qualifies as an associated company and is accounted for using the equity method. In addition to its own products, the group distributes the following brands: Swatch, Dunhill, Vertu, Omega, Montegrappa (I), MontBlanc, J.M. Weston, IWC, Glitter, Eden Park, Carl F. Bucherer, Bang &amp; Olufsen&#8230; The Richemont group might be a little nervous.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9875\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/pays-du-golfe-rivoli-group-bascule-dans-le-swatch-group\/swiss-watch-passport-swatch-group-reprend-rivoli-group\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9876\" src=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Swatch-Group-reprend-Rivoli-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Swatch-Group-reprend-Rivoli-Group.jpg 420w, https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/Swiss-Watch-Passport-Swatch-Group-reprend-Rivoli-Group-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayek P\u00e8re et Fils, reprise du Group Rivoli en 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2008, the Swatch Group has acquired a strategic investment in Rivoli Group, one of the leading distributors of luxury goods in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region. 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Founded in 2005, his press agency 1876 News (formerly T\u00e0G Press +41T) contributes to some twenty media through a network of around ten journalists or experts. These include Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (2008-2014), Heure Suisse\/Schweiz and Ann\u00e9e Horlog\u00e8re, F\/D\/E (2011-2014), Watchonista.com (2013-2019). In 2019, he founded and chaired \"JSH Archives &amp; Patrimoine\" to relaunch the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. Then in 2021, he built on his very first editorial venture, the \"bloghorloger.ch\" established on the web in 2003, to come back online with the Swiss Watch Passport\u00ae (by JSH\u00ae). Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean is a member of the SSC, the Swiss Society of Chronometry, and of the jury of the Prix Ga\u00efa, aka the \"Nobel of watchmaking\" awarded since 1992 by the MIH, Le Mus\u00e9e International de l'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds","sameAs":["https:\/\/grandjean.watch","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joel.grandjean","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/grandjean.grammson\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joel-a-grandjean-\u270d-5524357\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/tagpress","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@joela.grandjeanprowatchpre906"],"url":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/author\/joel\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}