“Shinola is a luxury product, but it has an American twist. It's casual, it's approachable. We want people to explore the brand.” At the Shinola store and the outdoor market, shoppers said a key selling point for them was that the products were made in …
European luxury goods stocks have stayed relatively robust in recent months, underpinned by their brand appeal along with the durability of their earnings due to Asian buying and, more lately, a pickup in the United States. Hermes for instance has …
… and Giovanni Accongiagioco in 2007, focusing mostly on eyewear. Its signature product is sunglasses made entirely of carbon – a design inspired by the yacht sailed by Mr Elkann's grandfather, the Fiat patriarch and style-setter Gianni Agnelli …
Patricia Widlitz, the House chairwoman of the legislature's Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, said lawmakers two years ago set a 7 percent luxury tax on boats selling for more than $100,000. Boat sellers were telling state officials that in …
Solution: yachts made in China. “It wasn't the first place we thought of,” says Bean, who is used to people raising an eyebrow at the thought of what may be the world's most expensive luxury good being manufactured in a country still better known for …
IMAGINE YOU have this massive luxury yacht that you charter to rich people and one of those rich people leaves a mirror, white powder and a rolled-up dollar bill in his bathroom. You would not be happy. Neither is the captain of Honor, the 164-foot …
The Panamera luxury liftback is one of those Porsches that purists love to hate – just like they hate the Cayenne SUV and will hate its little bother, the Audi Q5-based Macan too. When Panamera was launched back in 2009, the five-door copped it for …
But it's clear that the technology would save billions more in euros than it would cost – provided that enough drivers were using the Car-to-X system so that sufficient data could be collected to make it worthwhile. The luxury automaker Mercedes is …
“It has been led by luxury cars . . . and more and more young people have started to buy foreign cars instead of saving money to buy real estate,” says Yoon Dae-sung, executive director of the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association.