“We bought the international business to build into a fully global company,” says Lagomasino, who also serves on the boards of The Coca-Cola Co., Avon Products, and the National Geographic Society. It is unusual for an RIA based in the United States to …

At root, this is a symbolic gesture, affecting barely $40 million worth of Bangladeshi products such as tobacco and sports gear. Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has no plans to follow Washington's lead, partly out of a principled …

And, currently, it's India and China driving the jewellery market globally.because consumers are definitely getting more affluent, they're getting more educated. And so it's all about endowment, it's all about indulgence. It's definitely something …

A YEAR LATER: DuJour, the lifestyle quarterly magazine aimed at 1-percenters, at least those with a net worth of $5 million, will mark its first anniversary with a fall issue out in August featuring Robert De Niro on the cover. The title was one of …

Across Australia, the baskets of groceries were priced in as close to a standard manner as possible, ignoring discount providers that might operate in some places but not others, and looking at the standard rather than sale price of individual items …

Lawrence Lewitinn, 40, a licensed real estate broker and ex-hedge-fund trader who now works as a television producer, was so disgusted by the travails of his less affluent artist friends searching for apartments, he started a social networking site …

Will pork be different? Maybe. That's because our-made-in-America pork will be going the opposite direction to feed newly affluent consumers in China. The pro-China legislative package got even bigger this year when the Missouri General Assembly …

“Most people do their research online and if you're selling luxury items you have to present in a luxury way. Many of our competitors have missed that point but it works well for us.” To keep costs down, when he was building the site he outsourced some …

While most North Koreans are repressed throughout the country Kim Jong Il and his top officials were known to greatly admire Western civilization for its cars, drinks, and various other pieces of luxury. The regimes love of Western items was so great …