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Online luxury shoppers help pinpoint expansion opportunities for hotels
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The study reveals US consumers with the largest interest in luxury hotel brands globally with 66.3% of the total but demand growing from destinations such as Russia, up 12.8%, the UK, up 8.5% and China, up 3.3%. Overall the Upper Upscale brands are the …

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Private equity: Deals follow shift in consumer luxury spending
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Six years after the height of private equity's interest in luxury fashion was marked by Permira's acquisition of Valentino Fashion Group, investment firms seek fresh opportunities in the high-end sector's more modestly priced competitors. In the last …

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Investors-And Consumers-Still Focused on High End
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The company has been relatively mum about its plans for its purchase of Intermix, a luxury brand, but in a conversation with CNBC, Murphy said, "We are going to turbo-charge online for Intermix." He also expects to expand the physical footprint to 40 …

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China's luxury consumers focus more on quality
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Chinese luxury product consumers are paying more attention about quality instead of quantity, and increasing purchases of lower price luxury items, Bank Julius Baer said Tuesday in its latest report. The biggest private banking group in Switzerland …

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Uber's Private Hire Car Service Comes to Taipei, Taiwan
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Many in Asia have (or aspire to have) chauffeurs, and Uber is tapping into that with a service that. Not to mention that, in Asia at least, Uber also appeals to the desire to gain face and appear affluent to others in society. The firm is just …

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A Sustainable Diet
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While the affluent can afford the more expensive grass-fed products and thus avoid eating cows plied with chemical pesticides, antibiotics and hormones, the vast majority of people will continue to eat the cheapest fare that industrial agriculture can …

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UPBEAT NEW JERSEY: Elimination of discrimination: A noble but elusive goal
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In Morris, one of New Jersey's most affluent counties, we are fortunate to have the capable Patty Sly in charge. The location of the … Pictures of racially mixed couples adorn wedding announcements in newspapers and advertisements for many products.

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Catalano unveils The Weekly Review, the title to rival Fairfax's Melbourne Weekly
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The Weekly Review will be a free 200-plus page glossy lifestyle magazine which the publisher said will be supported by “Melbourne's most comprehensive display of gloss real estate advertising”. It will have a weekly print distribution of 200,000 across …

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Everyone should go see "Clybourne Park"
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Although the new owners claim to eschew the suburban lifestyle, their new home will be fifteen feet taller than anything else around it and begin to encroach on property setbacks that city and community guidelines prohibit. Did I just bore you with …

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