Ginette Moulin, owner of the Galeries Lafayette group, died at the age of 98. In August 2024, then aged 97, she decided to pass the torch of the president of Motier, the family holding company owner of the Galeries Lafayette group to entrust the keys of the family business to its descendants. Last living person to have known Théophile Bader, his grandfather, who was one of the founders of the Galeries Lafayette, over a hundred and thirty years ago, Ginette Moulin had announced that he wanted to give a “new breath” to the company and “Entrust more responsibilities to the fifth generation of family leaders that are his grandchildren”. A handover after twenty -one year old at the head of the family group. Ginette Moulin became president in 2005, replacing her husband, Etienne Moulin, who died.
Born on February 7, 1927, Ginette Moulin was the daughter of Max Heilbronn, resistant deported during the Second World War in Buchenwald in Germany, where he met the one who later married his daughter, Etienne Moulin. During the occupation, the Heilbronn family takes refuge in Lyon, in the free zone. This is where Ginette Moulin obtains her baccalaureate, which will then allow her to follow studies of history, English and Chinese.
With Etienne Moulin, the couple will have three girls. The latter works at Monoprix before joining the Galeries Lafayette which he will become president. The parents of Ginette Moulin both died in 1998. When her husband died in turn in 2004, Ginette Moulin and her cousin Noëlle Meyer, the heirs and little girls of Théophile Bader, come into conflict. This led to the total control of the group by the Moulin family.
In 2005, Ginette Moulin became president of the Galeries Lafayette supervisory board. According to Challenges, she was, with her family, the 34th French fortune in 2024 with a professional heritage of 4.05 billion euros.
The Galeries Lafayette group had 57 stores in France in January, including 19 own prisoners and 38 operated by franchise partners. The group announced in January plan to close its two stores by Marseille, which “records recurrent losses for several years” by the end of 2025.