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… their markets, understand consumers, and drive profitable growth. Sectors covered include automotive, beauty, consumer electronics, entertainment, fashion, food/foodservice, home, luxury, mobile, office supplies, sports, technology, toys, and video …

Some analysts think consumers are just postponing purchases until their needs are more imminent, but that smacks of wishful thinking. Quote: "We think rising … As far as luxury car sales go, it's trending to a slightly younger demographic. About 84 …

Other relevant factors contributing to good growth within luxury accessories include consumer diversification as there has been a shift in target demographics away from very affluent consumers to relatively high income customers, who are beginning to …

"Luxury brands are looking for ways to connect with their existing consumers, as well as aspirational buyers, and creating a branded Spotify channel affords a brand to showcase its unique voice and personality through music," Christine Kirk, chief …

Unlike Starbucks, or McDonald's, which had to contend with existing tastes for say, fatty pork or wedgy potatoes, the luxury clothing and accessories market in China was, until the 90's, a tabula rasa. So while conventional wisdom might have suggested …

Saks, the luxury retailer, reported a wider loss two weeks after agreeing to be bought by the Canadian retailer Hudson's Bay, the parent company of Lord & Taylor, for $2.4 billion. The retail sector got off to a dismal start last week after Wal-Mart …

… and the sustainability of the current boom. In Bahrain, the Survey and Land Registration Bureau revealed the high value of real estate transactions from BHD25.3m ($67m) in the first quarter of this year to BHD74m ($196m) by the end of the second …

Carson said The Cannery, which would be on the north side of Davis on a redeveloped former tomato cannery, could go before the city of Davis council for final approval this fall. Ben van der Meer covers real estate, development, local and regional …