Certainly, it's a good deal for consumers. Peer marketplaces democratize luxury services by making amateur chauffeurs, chefs and personal assistants available to perform occasional work once largely dominated by full-time professionals. Venture capital …

It has the most proactive green programme but it put that programme in place too early and the cost of shifting from nuclear to green has become a burden on the consumer. Most consumers now consider energy as a luxury good. People are leaving Germany …

RISING ENTREPRENEUR — Tina Shirelle Moore is a Mississippi Valley State University graduate and owner and operator of Cake and Cuppycakes, a business she lauched just six months ago. Although her business has been in operations for such a brief …

… consumers at its full-price stores. As a result, it's closing 70 stores, a fifth of its North American footprint, scaling back to holding just two semi-annual doorbuster sales each year, and changing its positioning from one of "accessible luxury …

2014 Consumer Trends Consumers who booked trips through agents spent almost double the amount spent by those who didn't last year, a continuing trend that suppliers and agents say is driven both by the types of trips people turn to professionals for …

Plus, Ultra HD is a living-room experience, and the amount of video being watched there is falling as more consumers watch TV on PCs, tablets and smartphones, which don't need the extra resolution, Espelien says. Ultra HD is best suited for televisions …

One of the most popular methods — and the core of Alibaba's luxury business — is enabling consumers to buy through foreign-based luxury product resellers, known as “daigou”. A $15 billion annual business, daigou are resellers and shopping agents that …

“We have noticed that the luxury consumers are growing faster and faster, and the world of luxury involves so many services,” Ibiza Gran Hotel general manager Raul Sierra said. But for Sierra, one of the key ingredients his hotel's guests are looking …

Today, however, if you want validation from consumers other than your best friend and the guy sitting next to you at work, but don't have a five-figure budget for research, there are a lot more options, Chris Kelly, co-founder and CEO of consumer …