The Messika family's jewellery brand Messika Paris has been engaged since last year in the slow process of finding a new outside investor (Glitz, 28/03/24), and is now preparing to open a boutique between the Dior and Lancôme stores on Paris's Champs-Élysées.
But before the Messika family began developing their brand, they took great care to separate it from their polished stone brokerage companies. Those firms, which constitute the group's historic business, are overseen by 75-year-old founder André
