Archive | August, 2021

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Luxury Market’s Recovery May Be Delayed

By now you’ve heard the news that leading luxury brands are bringing in cash hand over fist. LVMH, with its Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi and newly acquired Tiffany brands, reported “record first half performance” with revenues up 56 percent over same period in 2020 and organic growth up 11 percent compared to 2019. Its […]

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Holiday Retail 2021 Threatened by Rising Prices, Product Shortages and Delta Variant

After people satisfy their basic human needs for food, clothing and shelter, their safety and security needs take precedence, ahead of higher-level needs for love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization on Maslow’s hierarchy. Given our overall high quality of life, American consumers have been primarily focused on their higher-level needs, taking the basics for granted. […]

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Diamond Jewelry Sales Are Booming, but Can It Last?

Despite the disruptions from the pandemic, declining marriage rates and the growing availability of lab-grown diamonds as a less expensive but structurally and chemically identical substitute for the natural alternative, the market for natural, mined diamond jewelry has barely skipped a beat. Independent research firm, Edahn Golan Diamond Research & Data reports that overall U.S. […]

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Traeger Grills Catch Fire, Using Community to Spread its Message

Traeger opened on the NYSE a little over a week ago. An opening trade for over 3 million shares at $22 per share was well above its planned IPO price between $16 to $18. It’s now trading over $30 per share. It has well exceeded its projected ~$2 billion valuation. In an interview shortly before […]

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Mapping the New Consumer Path to Purchase

We’ve been told a consumer’s path to purchase proceeds in a straight line: awareness, familiarity, consideration, purchase … and if done right, it leads to loyalty. It’s a logical step-by-step progression model and gives brands the confidence to manage customers’ engagement and activate them along each step in their journey. Illusion Unveiled The problem is […]