The emphasis on luxury in the latest announcements also underlines the role of high-end consumption in the world's second largest economy, with the country's burgeoning middle class playing a vital role in boosting sales of upmarket British brands such …

“Gurgaon has emerged as a fast growing commercial hub on the international map, attracting business travellers and expats from across the globe but lacks good international quality branded serviced apartments,” said Pankaj Dugar, hospitality head, Ireo.

Euro luxury brands on show in Beijing. Wednesday, 26 June 2013 10:23 AM. Style. The Luxury China exhibition in Beijing has attracted high numbers of European brands who want to escape the recession back home. (Source: Euronews YouTube channel) …

More recently the Wall Street Journal announced the U.S. luxury market was bolstering the business for high-end goods purveyors. At the Financial Times, Jim Shi revealed the men's luxury goods market was outperforming women's in all categories.

For an avalanche of reasons, lifestyle brands – especially those at the luxury level – need to reassert their functional footing. Brands driven solely by style may be losing essential impact. LVMH is a good reference point. Over the past five years …

In order to succeed in today's complex and fast-changing world, luxury brands should adopt 'ecosystem models' to power a universe of external partnerships — much as Apple has done by enabling third-party contractors to generate an explosion of 'apps' …

A New Jersey clothing retailer with a business built on hip-hop fashions and sneakers has opened a high-end fashion store in Edgewater for fans of European outerwear brands and $600 Prada stilettos. Jenny and John Hwang, a Sayreville couple who own …

"Chanel is benefitting from an important level of interest in China, mostly emanating from strong interest from Chinese consumers in its beauty products, which Louis Vuitton does not have," David Sadigh, founder and chief executive officer of Digital …

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Social unrest in Turkey and Brazil is making it harder for luxury–goods makers to keep shoppers spending in a difficult economy, according to Ermenegildo Zegna. “It doesn't bring tranquility to anybody,” Zegna, chief executive …