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Comparing the luxury brand value

Luxury brands are bought in different countries for different values. This study evaluates those values consumers consider and provides a comparison between Indian and British luxury consumers.

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Luxury marketing: exploiting the heritage code of luxury brands

Marketing luxury brands is significantly trickier than regularly purchased brands. In this regards, many luxury brands from Europe seem to be stepping up a new kind of luxury marketing activity - exhibitions in prominent museums. For example, “Inspiration Dior” exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow; “Culture Chanel” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai; and Louis Vuitton “Voyages” exhibition in the National Museum of China. This exercise bags a question as to can this create a win-win situation for luxury brands and museums? In the following paragraphs, I shall share my views on marketing luxury brands through exhibitions.   A [Read Story]

2012 IMRA Emerging Markets Conference in London

      International Management Research Academy (IMRA) 2012 Emerging Markets Conference Emerging Markets and the New Dynamics of Management Since centuries, it has been perceived that, the western world is at the forefront of innovative theories and practices in management. Last two decades have evidently demonstrated that now it is no more the hegemony of the developed world in contributing towards management art and science. The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and other European countries are now emerging as sunrise economies and are offering new dynamics of management. Be it grassroots level technologies or socio-economic development, the emerging [Read Story]

Luxury Consumption Tendencies in Recession: Early Evidence

In my last blog post (Luxury consumption: will it really be affected by recession?) I stated that luxury brands will not be affected as much by recent recession as they did in past. The main reasons I gave were (a) consumption tendencies of masses (where Armani, LVMH, Gucci, Prada and such others have become a regular consumption item); (b) geographical scope and the emergance of emerging markets in Asia and (c) tourism trends (where Chinese, Indian and other tourists are flocking the Western markets and buying luxury items in numbers).

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