Jan Rupert

Compagnie Financière Rupert SA is a private company based in Bellevue, Switzerland. The Swiss company engages in selling jewelries.

Richemont SA manufactures watches and jewllery. The company's brands include Cartier, Arpels, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Piaget, IWC, Baume & Mercier, Vacheron Constantin, Montblanc and Montegrappa Alfred Dunhill, Lancel and Chloé. It was founed in 1988 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Rothmans International Group was formed in october 1993 through reorganisation of the tobacco and luxury goods businesses of Richmont, Rothmans and Dunhill into two new listed groups, Rothmans International and Vendome. Rothmans International comprises all of Rothmans tobacco businesses and certain tobacco trade marks previously owned by Dunhill and Richmont. International cigarette brands owned and controlled by the group include Rothmans, Peter Stuyvesant, Dunhill, Cravan 'A' and Golden American. Under its constitution Rothmans International has a dual holding company stucture, in which the shareholders hold units comprising twinned shares in Rothmans International Plc, a British company, and Rothmans International NV a Dutch company. Rothmans International Plc owns the UK-based businesses and Rothmans International NV owns the non-UK based businesses. The composition of the boards of both companies is identical.