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5 Tips for Retailers to achieve winning strategies in 2025

With the new year truly underway, retailers around the world are putting their game faces on for a volley of fresh challenges. From ever-changing consumer behaviors to emerging technologies, market fluctuations, and shifting regulations to convoluted trade dynamics, retailers will have to square off with a new retail game in 2025. Thriving...

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Luxury stocks plummet on increasing Coronavirus fears

New York – Shares of European luxury brands Burberry and LVMH continued to fall on Tuesday morning trade on the companies’ exposure to the Chinese market, which has been hit by an outbreak of Coronavirus. Data from Bain & Co. indicates that Chinese customers - shopping both at home and abroad - account for 90 percent of the luxury goods market...

Fashion

All eyes on the rise of Resort and Cruise collections

As the pace of growth within the global luxury goods sector continues to slow, more and more luxury labels are turning to their resort and cruise collections to win over waning consumers in the gap between Spring/summer and Fall/Winter collections. According to a recent study byItalian luxury association firm Fondazione Altagamma and Bain & Co.,...

Design

Luxury market continues to grow in 2014

The luxury market segment will continue to increase this year, albeit at a slower pace than the previous growth injectionwitnessed between 2009 and 2012 which saw luxury goods sales increase to reach double digits. On Monday, the Worldwide Luxury Industry 2014 forecast was revealed by Italian firm Fondazione Altagamma, in collaboration with...