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Fashion Prices Are Rising Fast, Threatening the Recovery of this Struggling Market

Dressing the kids to go back-to-school, not to mention yourself to get back-to-work, will cost more this year.Overall, the consumer price index for apparel rose 4.2% from August 2020 through August 2021. Fortunately for parents, children’s clothing prices advanced less, up 1.4% for boys and 2.8% for girls. But new kid’s shoes will cost 5.9% […]

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Corporate Gifting Caught Fire This Past Year

In normal times, corporate gifting is a routine cost of doing business. It’s used to recognize employees and strengthen relationships with clients or partners. But it took on new urgency as a result of the pandemic.With company staff dispersed, a well-chosen gift became a way to keep employees connected and reward them for work performance […]

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China Talks About Fixing Income Inequality. Are Luxury Brands Listening?

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently gave a speech laying out a goal to promote “common prosperity” across the country that increasingly has “only a few people prosperous,” the state-run news outlet Xinhua reported.Speaking to the Party’s Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, President Xi defined “common prosperity” as “affluence shared by everyone, both in […]

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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.But […]

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