Peloton, the maker of high-end, digitally-enhanced exercise equipment that enjoyed a bump during the pandemic only to crash spectacularly afterwards, just announced it is laying off 500 employees, about 12 percent of its existing workforce following three rounds of layoffs earlier this year. Store closures accounted for most of the last round in June, but […]
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RSS feed for this sectionRalph Lauren Returns To True Luxury With Aggressive Plans for Growth
Ralph Lauren Company CEO Patrice Louvet and his executive team took to the stage recently in RL’s first investor presentation since 2018. Four years in the making, it was a big event lasting some four hours and backed up by a nearly 200-page presentation. The bulk of the time and pages were devoted to the […]
What Web 3.0 And Changing Consumer Psychographics Mean For Luxury Brands
Web 3.0 is coming fast. While it still hasn’t been fully realized, it promises to mark the end of the domination of the internet by power platforms, like Google, Facebook and Twitter and put users in charge. “This third generation of internet services will be the catalyst for a new internet, connecting data-driven technologies like […]
With Recession on the Horizon, Luxury Consumers Are Feeling Déjà Vu
Up until the 2008/2009 Great Recession, conventional wisdom held that affluent consumers were immune to economic downturns. The assumption was their higher levels of income and wealth sheltered them when prices rise and the economy tanks. But during the last recession, that conventional wisdom didn’t hold. Luxury consumers felt the pain and reacted just like […]
Poised for Growth under New Leadership, David Yurman Opens Paris Flagship Jewelry Boutique
Look at almost any list of the world’s most coveted luxury jewelry brands, and among the list including Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Tiffany, Harry Winston, Bvlgari and others, you’ll find David Yurman. After being founded by sculptor David and artist Sybil Yurman a mere 42 years ago, the David Yurman brand has worked its […]