The study confirms what our more recent internal tracking studies have shown as well – Affluent spending is on the rise, and plays a key role in the economic health of many product and service categories. Across the wide range of categories we examined …

Yet the African-American consumer segment remains woefully undermarketed to, and companies that persist in their failure to capture the attention of black consumers also risk missing out on the tens of millions of dollars African-Americans spend …

However, 80.7 percent of this wealthy group of Chinese chose financial products by banks as their primary investment tool while only 62.5 percent did so in 2012, indicating their fondness for financial products with fixed returns. Although stock …

As we pointed out in January, academics now argue that the best way to boost these dismal take-up rates in poor countries is to sell microinsurance products to groups rather than individuals. That way administrative costs can be cut (as the number of …

Besides the similarities that voters and newspaper readers share – both groups are more affluent than the general population, for example – the two groups intersect: 75 percent of voters read newspapers and, in the Greater Triangle, 2 out of 3 News …

… across North America generating over 44 billion in revenue as of 2013. Sephora stores enable J.C. Penney to draw in younger and affluent customers, thereby giving J.C. Penney a competitive edge over other beauty products, retailers and drugstores.

Since then, Erawana has developed and completely sold out 12 projects, all of which are private-pool villa products around the island, with total sales exceeding 1.5 billion baht. The most recent launch was Tanode 5, a project comprising 14 private …

… and the saleperson's pitch sway the consumer. It measures the effect on consumers on the market for a house, a loan, a car, travel products, FMCG and even a movie ticket. … Smart deals can change the minds of between a fifth and half of all …

[I]f policymaking [continues to be] dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened. To some … perhaps half of all SEC issuers would …