www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor How far can luxury brands travel? Avoiding the pitfalls of luxury brand extension Mergen Reddy a‚ Nic Terblanche b‚ Leyland Pitt c‚*‚ Michael Parent c a Capgemini Consulting‚ P.O. Box 785827‚ Sandton‚ 2146‚ South Africa Stellenbosch University‚ Private Bag X1‚ Matieland‚ 7602‚ South Africa c Segal Graduate School of Business‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 500 Granville Street‚ Vancouver‚ BC V6C 1W6‚ Canada b KEYWORDS Luxury brands; Brand extensions; Degree of adjacency;
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Building an Organization Capable of Good Strategy Execution Core Concept Good strategy execution requires a team effort. All managers have strategy-executing responsibility in their areas of authority‚ and all employees are participants in the strategy execution process. At the operational level‚ managers need to be able to motivate their subordinates to participate in the strategy execution process. Some authors believe that there is a paradox of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic
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If I could make a club that would help alleviate people’s frustrations‚ it would be known as the Luxury Club. Within this club‚ members get to relieve their stress and frustrations by doing things such as shopping‚ traveling‚ and etc. I consider this as luxury‚ because everyone’s financial capabilities vary‚ therefore not everyone can afford to shop‚ travel‚ or eat at a nice place often. For me‚ I get frustrated when things don’t go the way I want them to. Shopping helps me relieve this emotion by
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Overseas Purchasing: New challenge for Chinese luxury retailers Abstract Chinese luxury consumers start to account for more percentage for the world luxury goods sales. However‚ domestic retailers do not benefit from this trend‚ because Chinese consumers prefer to purchase luxury products from foreign countries. As a result‚ the growth domestic luxury market trends to slow down. In order to avoid that disadvantage‚ some of the largest luxury retailers have claimed to slow and cease their plan for
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Luxury brands during times of recession A question of survival Universally‚ luxury items are considered to be items of great prestigious value‚ and their possession has satisfied people worldwide. In the last three decades particularly‚ consumers have enjoyed a higher level of disposable income than ever before‚ and as a result luxury brands have prospered greatly. However‚ in times of economic crisis luxury brands face the challenge of having their brands perceived value becoming dangerously
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Luxury Brands: Creating luxury brands is difficult; expanding one is even more so. But what all luxury brands in terms of consumer acquisition find as their foundations is their ability to tap and perfect marketing communication‚ product quality and a specific target niche portfolio in which it can thrive for a more competitive advantage. Emerging Markets hold huge potential for growth for Luxury Goods. The surge of numerous flagships stores and sold goods within Asia is a prime indication that
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1) How does luxury consumption in Japan differ from in other countries ? I guess the main difference is the fact that Japanese people consume luxury in mass. Or at least‚ they did. Indeed‚ Japan is the first and only mass luxury market. This behavior finds its origins in the need of showing their identity and self-worth‚ and they do it by wearing luxury products. In fact‚ as there is not much space and lots of traffic jams there‚ the Japanese can’t build huge houses and own many cars‚ as we‚
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Shoyu (soy) had come to Japan with the arrival of Buddhism‚ a teaching that turned Japanese from meat based to vegetable based flavorings. It was brought by a Japanese Zen Buddhist who studied in China. Noda became a major center for shoyu manufacturing in Japan because of its rich agricultural kanto plain and strategic location. The Mogi family was the one who began brewing shoyu in Noda and has maintained an exceptional quality of shoyu for almost a century. Another Noda family
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Toko Ohmori 26 Luxury shopping in the digital age The “right” digital strategy differs for every luxury brand‚ but the essential elements are the same: a strong mobile presence‚ a selective approach to social media‚ and a tight focus on carefully chosen metrics. Linda Dauriz‚ Nathalie Remy‚ and Nicola Sandri Among luxury companies‚ conventional luxury products online‚ and at undiscounted wisdom used to be that participation in prices. Our latest luxury-industry research‚ e-commerce—and‚
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"Education is Not a Luxury" by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg debates that the tradition agrarian calendar is no longer necessary to society being that civilization has changed from an agricultural society into a technology era. Trachtenberg suggest a lengthening of the school year to eight months out of a year and a school day starting at 9 and ending at 5. Society’s little Respect for the educational institutions‚ causes students to not take school seriously because they’re only there for a short
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