Why a Broke Football Club Spent Millions on Water (Gucci's Water Reuse Strategy)
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Why a Broke Football Club Spent Millions on Water (Gucci's Water Reuse Strategy)

B2Upper-intermediateApril 8, 202616 min
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  • Business & money

Why Did a Broke Football Club Owned by Gucci's Family Invest Millions in Water Reuse? Stade Rennais, the French football club owned by the Pinault family behind Kering (Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta...), buried a €1.5 million closed-loop water system under its renovated La Piverdière training complex in February 2025. This investment, during French football's worst financial crisis, reveals a widening gap between what water costs and what water is truly worth - using water reuse as its vehicle. 🌶️ KEY SPICES 🌶️ ⚽ How French football's TV rights collapsed from €1.1B to €142M — a 90...

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The Pino family controls caring, which means Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and roughly 60 billion euros in consolidated luxury assets. They also happen to own a football club in Brittany called Stade Renée and like nearly every other club in French football right now, Ren is losing money at a pace that would

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definitely alarm you if it were yours. I declare bankruptcy! This French football is living through its worst financial crisis in recorded history and honestly that's even an understatement.

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The domestic TV rights that were supposed to bring in 1.2 million euros a year under a deal with Mediapro back in 2018 collapsed so dramatically that by the 2025-2026 season actual distributions to club had fallen to roughly 142 million euros a year of which 20% are preempted by a private equity fund.

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