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Frederic Cumenal

French entrepreneur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ21005478 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frederic Patrick Cumenal (born September 1959) is a French businessman, and was the chairman and CEO of Tiffany & Co., the American jewelry retailer, from April 2015 to February 2017.

Michael J. Kowalski retired as CEO on 31 March 2015, and remained non-executive chairman. Cumenal, president of Tiffany, succeed him as CEO.

Following weak sales Tiffany announced in February 2017 that Cumenal was leaving immediately, after 22 months as CEO. He was replaced on an interim basis by his predecessor Michael Kowalski.

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The public source identifies “Frederic Cumenal” as french entrepreneur. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Frederic, Cumenal and French.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Frederic, Cumenal and French providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21005478. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frederic Cumenal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.