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With the launch of Fenty Maison in partnership with pop icon and fashion and beauty entrepreneur Rihanna, LVMH is breaking the mold of how luxury brands are built. It signals dramatic changes coming in the luxury market led by the undisputed market leader. Recently Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of LVMH, announced that it was creating […]
On December 14 LVMH announced an agreement to acquire Belmond, the luxury travel and hospitality company formerly known as Orient Express Hotels. Belmond owns, partly owns or manages 36 hotels with a new one in the works for London, one stand-alone restaurant (NYC’s 21 Club), seven tourist trains and two river/canal cruise businesses. In 2017 hotels […]
When the news broke that Michael Kors Holdings paid $2.12 billion for Italian fashion brand Gianni Versace S.p.A., people were surprised at the price. Calling the offer “a rich one,” the Wall Street Journal reported the brand had generated only $17.5 million in profits last year. Investment analyst Oliver Chen with Cowen and Company was more bullish about the […]
LVMH just released its 2016 annual report and it reveals important trends that will impact luxury brands for the years ahead. While LVMH posted a healthy 5.4% increase from 2015 to 2016, its rate of growth was less than one-third of that from 2014 to 2015 when revenues rose a remarkable 16.4%. This may signal […]
In 2013, the American Marketing Association changed the definition of marketing. It went from the old 4Ps definition which most of us practicing marketers were drilled in: Product, Price, Promotion, Placement, to a new one based upon the idea of value: Judging from the sorry state of business today – the closing of 100 Macy’s […]
Speaker, author, and market researcher Pamela N. Danziger is internationally recognized for her expertise on the world’s most influential consumers: the American Affluent. As founder of Unity Marketing, Pam leads with research to provide brands with actionable insights into the minds of their most profitable customers.
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