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In Luxury, Exclusivity Means Being The Incomparable One Among Many. Neiman Marcus Gets It.

Nordstrom recently disappointed Wall Street when it announced a 4.1% decline in sales during its fourth quarter covering November 2022 through January 2023. It started Fiscal 2022 strong, with sales up 18.7%, then with each successive quarter, sales slowed.It followed a pattern seen widely across the luxury market and reported here. Luxury brands far and […]

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Need Better, More Up-To-Date Information On Luxury Consumers To Plan Your Next Moves? Free Trial

Over the last three years, the luxury market has experienced a whirlwind of change. After rising 7 percent in 2019 before the pandemic, it suffered a steep decline in 2020, only to bounce back with spectacular growth through 2021 and 2022.Now the economy is under threat again with the banking crisis, rising interest rates, fluctuating […]

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Former Lululemon CEO Christine Day Chose The Corporateneur Path And Founded House Of LR&C

There’s a growing crisis in retail C-suites. Nobody wants the top job.Christine Day, who rose through the ranks at Starbucks to head its Asia-Pacific division and served five years as CEO of Lululemon where she quadrupled company revenues and more than tripled its store footprint, would be a perfect fit for any of the open […]

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HNW Investors Will Stay The Course, For Now, Survey Finds

Amidst rising interest rates, bank failures, stock market swings and stubbornly persistent inflation, the U.S. economy is teetering dangerously close to a recession. Jerome Powell admitted that the Federal Reserve is guiding the uncertain economy by “rule-of-thumb guesswork, almost” and that the latest rate increase could easily have unintended consequences or, as he said during […]

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Introducing the Research The Affluent Luxury Tracker

The Research The Affluent Luxury Tracker (RTALT) is a continuous daily survey conducted among affluent and HNW consumers tracking their financial status, luxury purchase behavior, lifestyles and values. Plus on-demand Flash surveys are available to give clients immediate information and insights into their most valuable customers.The RTALT is sponsored by Chandler Mount, CEO of Washington, […]