Does competitive intelligence help improve the bottomline? (Part 2)
In my last post on competitive intelligence, I discussed how competitive intelligence can help improve the bottomline in emerging markets. In our article published in Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, we observed that Competitive Intelligence (CI) activities have an impact on the market performance of Indian firms. In this post, I want to focus
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Does competitive intelligence help improve the bottomline? (Part 1)
Does competitive intelligence help improve bottomline? This post answers this question based on one of our recent research studies.
What is your Chinese New Year luxury strategy?
“The US is luxury’s largest market. Japan still remains a large luxury market in terms of absolute size. However, China is the true star of the region” – Claudia D’Arpizio (Bain & Co. Analyst) China: the luxury market for present and future While the high-end luxury goods market is stagnant or decelerating for many
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What makes a good luxury brand great?
The article discusses why some luxury brands become larger than life and are called great while others can’t seem to break the barrier.
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Comparing the luxury brand value
Luxury brands are bought in different countries for different values. This study evaluates those values consumers consider and provides a comparison between Indian and British luxury consumers.
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Luxury marketing: exploiting the heritage code of luxury brands
Marketing luxury brands is significantly trickier than regularly purchased brands. In this regards, many luxury brands from Europe seem to be stepping up a new kind of luxury marketing activity – exhibitions in prominent museums. For example, “Inspiration Dior” exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow; “Culture Chanel” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai; and
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Luxury branding: back to basics
When using luxury brands consumers make a subtle claim that they are special, different and at the very forefront of social trends. Therefore, creating a fit between the social trends and keeping up with them is one of the critical strategic issues for all luxury brands. However, with mass-market brands gradually upgrading their appearance, strategic
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The Alternative Vote (AV): moving from nominal to ordinal measurement
Tomorrow is a very important day for British citizens when we shall decide our next voting system – labelled as the Alternative Vote (AV). Presently, we use a simple voting system called ‘First past the post’ (FPTP). In this system, the candidate who has won the most amount of votes is the winner. So, lets
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