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Reinold Geiger
Austrian billionaire businessman
Reinold Geiger (born 10 July 1947)[1] is an Austrian billionaire, and the chairman and executive director of French cosmetics retailer L'Occitane en Provence.
On the 2023 Forbeslist, he was the 9th richest Austrian with a net worth of US$ 1.4 billion.[2]
Education and career
Geiger, the son of a carpenter, received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, in 1969 and an MBA degree from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France) in 1976.[3][4] After graduating he founded several small companies, including a tourism company in London.[5]
In 1978, Geiger founded the AMS Packaging Company in Paris, which specialized in the production of cosmetics packaging.
He later sold the company at a profit. In 1994, Geiger started investing millions in the then small cosmetics company L'Occitane and took over the management.[5] He expande