Archive | 2019

Fashion Fatigue

15 Ways to Fix Shoppers’ Fashion Fatigue

We’ve all seen the headlines: “Low prices aren’t fun anymore – consumers have reached peak happiness with clothing purchases,” on CNBC and “The ‘retail apocalypse’ is an apparel apocalypse,” on Retail Dive.  After looking around the industry and studying the research and analyst reports, I find the conclusion unequivocal. American consumers are over their love […]

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LVMH Sees Luxury’s Future in Mission-Driven MadHappy

LVMH has a lock on the current luxury market. Its latest financial report testifies to that, with 16% revenue growth for the first nine months of 2019 to reach € 38.4 billion in revenue. That comes on top of 10% year-over-year growth in 2018 on €46.8 billion in sales.LVMH is the biggest and baddest player […]

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Cultural Relevance Is Key To Success In Marketing Luxury in China

Interview with Daniel Langer, Ph.D. and CEO of management consulting firm Equite, about the opportunities and pitfalls that luxury brands face marketing in China. He finds luxury strategies that work in the Western world don’t translate easily to China.

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A New Model of Retail Metrics: Getting the Numbers Right

As a market researcher, I have always been intrigued by what is known as the “observer effect,” whereby the mere observation of a phenomenon changes the phenomenon observed. I am keenly aware of it when I design a survey instrument. What’s measured takes on the utmost importance, but when the wrong variables are measured, no […]

Beauty Business Trends

The Future of the Beauty Market Described in these Six Trends

Today the global beauty industry is a $532 billion business. The U.S. currently is the world’s largest beauty market, with about 20% share, followed by China (13%) and Japan (8%). While projections for growth vary, most agree it will continue to advance at a 5%-to-7% compound-annual-growth-rate to reach or exceed $800 billion by 2025.Even if the world […]

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