"There are fewer products purchased, but when shoppers do buy things, they want them to be a bit better in quality," says NPD home industry analyst Debra Mednick. As a result, retailers are emphasizing slightly pricier items, she adds. Retailers need …

More affluent folks often take the big risks to create large companies that employ millions of workers. Their ideas generate new products and their philanthropy sustains huge segments of our culture. Much of the economy is based on a trickle down …

The modern economy demands highly skilled workers, but many children from less affluent homes are handicapped before they even enter first grade. They haven't been frequent visitors to libraries, museums and zoos. They haven't grown up in … Most of …

Civic values: News media are a fairly integral part of any democracy and that belief is shared, if unevenly, among the rich. Ego: Or vanity, or arrogance, more pejoratively. Or extreme self-confidence, more favorably. To place a bet in the tens of …

Led by two hoteliers who had previously worked with world-renowned hotel brands, Michael Luible and Stephan Gnagi, VIVE's first project, which it is conceptualising, managing and operating, is a 271-room hip four-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur's affluent …

In Jahingirabad area, majority of new shopping arcades are full of famous foreign goods to cater to the demand of the affluent buyers. "I often go to Dubai for Eid shopping but now majority of imported items such as cloth and cosmetics are now …

KC: In more developed markets where you have an educated, somewhat affluent population open to explore fresh flavors from around the world, we are seeing similar opportunities. Many of … KC: First, given we don't consider our products ethnic food …

Lilian Chong, head of card business at Dah Sing Bank's retail banking division, said both interest and fee incomes were under pressure because of fast-rising industry competition, and banks therefore had to enrich their current products and services to …

Doing up homes for affluent would-be bohos is sweet revenge for a model who for 12 years never had time to unpack, let alone hang a picture. Her life seems to have been a constant process of balancing and amendments. "My mum was quite a hippie and …