Exchange-Traded Funds: An Introduction The iShares definition of ETF is as follows: “An exchange traded fund (ETF) is an investment vehicle that combines key features of traditional mutual funds and individual stocks. Like index mutual funds‚ ETFs represent diversified portfolios of securities that track specific indexes. Like stocks‚ they can be bought and sold (long or short) on an exchange throughout the trading day. In addition to trading flexibility‚ key ETF benefits include instant diversification
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Louis Vuitton look. BACKGROUND: The Louis Vuitton Company (more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton) is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company‚ headquartered in Paris‚ France. It is a division of the French holding company‚ LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy S.A. The company is named after its founder Louis Vuitton (August 4‚ 1821-February 27‚ 1892)‚ who designed and manufactured luggage‚ as
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LUXURY MARKET OVERVIEW Luxury goods have more than the ordinary and necessary characteristics compared to other products of their category. Their characteristics can be divided into 6 parts Symbolism‚ Price‚ Extraordinariness‚ Rarity‚ Aesthetics and Quality. The global market size for the industry has been at a growth rate of 9% per annum. This trend has been seen in the market since 1995 till 2000. The luxury market took a hit from 2000 to 2004 when incidents like the September 11 and SARS epidemic
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Waterford Wedgwood forward.” The challenge facing its management was how best to reshape a loss-making group that owned a range of branded glassware and chinaware into a profitable concern. Other luxury goods conglomerates such as Richemont‚ PPR/Gucci and LVMH were doing well but could a quite different brand portfolio be made similarly profitable? The Company The company of Waterford was first established in 1783 in the Irish harbour town of Waterford. Its founders were two brothers‚ William and George
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sales‚ but it paled in comparison with its other in-house brand. The trend hit other well-known brands particularly hard. Burberry Group PLC (BBRYF)‚ purveyor of the easily identifiable classic check trenchcoat‚ issued a profit warning in September. LVMH (LVMHF) Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton‚ the world’s largest luxury goods group and owner of the famed LV brand‚ reported its slowest quarterly growth since 2009 this summer. Each company cited China as a reason for its weakness. Analysts are already taking
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After the case and readings the problems of LVMH there are several problems such as the declining demand for luxury goods because it is linked to political events‚ situation and social trends. (After the attacks of 9/11 an impact on luxury goods has dropped and had automatically an impact on LVMH sales) Secondly luxury products are easy to counterfeit‚ some countries such as china‚ turkey‚ and other still have to improve their IPR policies And finally LVMH diversification strategy (Bernard Arnault)
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Executive Summary Gucci Group is a luxury goods retailer focusing on improving their market share while producing high quality fashionable items. Initially‚ Gucci’s poor business strategy and internal family conflict directly resulted in decreased sales and net income. When Investcorp took control of the company‚ Gucci regained their success through quality management and acquisitions. Gucci’s product line now includes a large range of products. We would like to continue Gucci’s success and believe
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Introduction Hardly any industry today is as much changing as the fashion industry. New collections‚ new styles and trends emerge faster than ever before. Brands that are "in" today can be "out" tomorrow and vice versa. In addition‚ consumer behavior in the fashion industry changed significantly over the last two decades mixing and mingling fashion segments into individual styles that combine both high and low-end fashion items. In order to keep up with the pace of the industry‚ players have
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a variety of products. * Its founder Mandonnaud rebranded his combined set of stores in order to expand is market. * Mandonnaud extended its branches all over France by acquiring 8% of total French retail perfume market and was purchased by LVMH‚ luxury product group‚ for $262 million in 1997. * Sephora expanded its operations and services beyond the perfume industry and expanding its core of products to cosmetics. * Under LNMH’s ownership and opened its first U.S store in New York
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The key question in this case is can LVMH continue to successfully manages of its different brands while making sure they are all profitable. I like the focus that the company puts on its “star brands”. Focusing on the brands that continue to grow and bring in profits will help the company stay profitable. While focusing on the star brands is a good strategy it is far from all that LVMH needs to do to be a successful conglomerate. It appears that in the fashion world human resources are the most
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