Chanel is a privately owned world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing high end luxury products in three segments: Fashion (including Haute Couture), Fragrance and Beauty, and Watches and Fine Jewellery. Chanel currently employs more than 20,000 people across the world.

Chanel belongs, as all the products it manufactures and distributes, to the high end industries which are fundamental pillars of the European economy. As such, Chanel promotes culture, art, creativity and "savoir-faire" throughout the world while remaining an engine of growth and job creation, and developing significant R&D and innovation effort.