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Middle Eastern Luxurians

The Arab Spring may have been the high-water mark for conspicuous consumption by Middle Eastern luxurians. The region’s luxury consumers have long ...

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is open for business as analysts hail a new era of prosperity for the world’s least developed region. The IMF predicts tha...

IMF : World Bank : Accenture

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The Future of Luxury Service

Luxury brands have always sought to differentiate themselves through service and, as the global luxury market starts to cool, understanding the kin...

China : Brazil : W Hotels

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Turkey Market Report

Turkey’s East-meets-West appeal is making headlines as rapid economic growth injects new life into Istanbul and the country’s other historic cities.

Turkey : Istanbul : Turkish Statistical Institute

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Total Retail

Brands are increasingly looking to the complex online networks we call Mega-systems, which include Facebook, Google and Amazon, to use their data f...

Facebook : Google : Amazon

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New Luxury Millennials: Update

New Luxury Millennials (NLMs), the well-heeled, high-spending branch of the collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial Millennials, are rapidly becom...

Millennials : Ipsos Mendelsohn Affluent Survey : India

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Chinese fashion brands to watch

Beijing – New Emerging Affluents in China shop at domestic fast fashion retailers with global aspirations alongside foreign brands that have expand...

China : Beijing : H&M

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Shopping malls: Changing formats

Global – As consumers question the need to visit shopping centres in favour of buying online, mall developers are engaging visitors in new communit...

Shopping Centres : Community Centres : Cannes

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Phy-gital retail technology: Social Interaction

Retailers are using social media and interactive elements in their stores to entertain, entice and inspire customers. LS:N Global explores some of ...

Facebook : Taste-graph Commerce : Mobile

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Myanmar market report

After five decades of virtual isolation under the ruling military dictatorship, the opening up of Myanmar has led to a flood of interest from forei...

Myanmar : UN : United Nations

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Re-commerce fashion sites to rival eBay in 2013

UK, US – Over nearly 20 years, eBay has been at the forefront of the re-commerce market as consumers discovered that re-selling their possessions h...

EBay : Covetique : Asos

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Multi-faceted networks

Social networking has become increasingly central to how consumers interact, function and shop. Sina Weibo and Twitter already have 500m users each...

Social Media : Social Networks : Instagram

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How to: Showroom

UK, US – Retailers are realising that showrooming is not the enemy. Bargain-driven consumers are increasingly researching purchases in-store before...

Showrooming : Bricks-and-mortar : MasterCard

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Macau Luxury

Less than 10 years after the first foreign casino opened its doors in Macau, the sleepy former Portuguese colony has transformed itself into the wo...

HSBC : Macau : China

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Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013/2014: Beauty Trends Overview

Punk, gothic, ghostly and feral references led backstage experts at the autumn/winter 2013/2014 shows to create visions of anarchic romance and poe...

Anarchy : Beauty : Punk

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Nordic Market report

The Nordic region’s prosperous countries are often held up as role models for the rest of the world. Their taxes may be high, but they are also cha...

Scandinavia : Norway : Sweden

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Generation I Tablets

In the UK, 9.8m consumers used a tablet device to access the internet in 2012, an increase of 140% compared with the previous year, according to re...

EMarketer : Tablets : Vodafone

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India

India, the second most populous country in the world, is a booming trillion-dollar economy. Its secret weapon is its young workforce. The median ag...

India : Euromonitor : Vertebrand

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South Korean beauty market

The cosmetics market in South Korea has been growing by 10.4% a year for the past six years to an estimated value of W9 trillion ($8.3bn, €6.3bn, £...

South Korea : Korea : Seoul

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Russia Market

Lower import duties, an improved postal service, and a surge in internet use signals a boom period is on its way for Russia’s consumers.

Russia : Russian Federation Statistics Service : Moscow

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