Stenders Beauty Firm - Situation Audit and Swot Analysis
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
In this report, based on Stenders profile, and internal situational audit analysis is performed, the products and target consumer's profile are offered. An external situational audit analysis is then performed in detail with a focus on market opportunities and the competitors. On the basis of the...
Louis Vuitton's market strategy to excel in the competitive luxury industry
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The leather sector is renowned for the quality of its products, especially in the luxury market. Louis Vuitton, the most prestigious French business of luxury leather goods, has, for years, been an incredible success, continually expanding its activities. Recently, consumer behavior...
Zara and H&M: Two models which try to bring luxury closer to the common consumer
Thesis - 11 pages - Services marketing
The European textile sector was one of the first victims of globalization and price discrimination. The most important textile markets are Europe (135 billion euros), U.S. (100 billion euros) and China followed by Japan (35 billion euros). In this hyper-competitive environment, brands like Zara...
The world of luxury: The challenges of modernity
Dissertation - 41 pages - Services marketing
In this excerpt from the Spleen and Ideal, part of the collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire offers us a journey into a world where luxury blends with peace and pleasure. His words describe a world of luxury: "shining", "rare", "rich", "smooth", "leisure",...
The effectiveness of guilt appeal in the fashion business
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Guilt and its mechanisms are a relevant way to understand consumers' behaviour towards fashion luxury purchases. Fashion is a huge industry, which proposes products based on subjective and personal affects. Clothes have to fit, to make people feel comfortable and good looking...
Female Beauty in Japan: perceptions and evolutions
Thesis - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Japan, is widely known for origami, the art of folding a kimono, ikebana and many such arts that require patience and discipline and seek to "beautify" the environment. However, in this document we will study the Japanese notion of beauty as it is applied to women. What does it mean to be...
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) in the luxury market
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, or LVMH, is currently the world leader in the luxury market. LVMH had recorded high profits in 2006, thus making it the best performer in the fashion and luxury industry. This achievement was acknowledged by the present CEO of the group, Bernard...
The marketing of the luxury goods
Dissertation - 38 pages - Services marketing
For over a decade, the luxury sector has been undergoing transformation. At the economic level, one can note a strong expansion of the luxury market in France with an estimation of 14 billion euros in 2005. By definition, luxury is a lifestyle characterized by spending a...
Luxury brands on the Internet - between irony and opportunities
Dissertation - 81 pages - Services marketing
The image of the luxury sector on the market is that of selectivity and the scarcity. The challenge for luxury brands is to transmit a burst of accessibility while addressing a segment of consumers, who are the affluent class. Thus, the Internet, which is defined as a mass medium,...
Bangalore: Online beauty and personal care market outlook 2012
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Online beauty & personal care segment witnessed higher double digit value sales growth of 19 on year-on-year basis in 2011-2012. It further registered annual transactions increase of 10 on year-on-year basis in 2012. The segment is stipulated to witness average annual growth of 25% with...
Chic porn in the communication strategy of luxury houses
Case study - 19 pages - Management
Today, luxury is not only for the elite but also for the elitist part of each of us. The shockvertising stream has helped luxury brands to touch more consumers regarding the new idea of consuming luxury. But before luxury brands realised that they needed to communicate...
TMode: Trade show of fashion creators
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The fashion industry includes, in term of activity, the manufacture of clothes, footwear and of sweaters, shoes, perfumes and jewels. An industrial company on 10 works in the field of the fashion. Sector was little concentrated, it groups together almost 2000 companies of more than...
Comparing the Ideals of Beauty within "Sonnet 18" and "The Lady's Dressing Room"
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”, and Swift's “The Lady's Dressing Room”, both include an individual discussing their lover, although on dissimilar plains of thought. Within “Sonnet 18”, the writer's beloved is compared to a summer's day, concluding that the companion is...
The luxury market in China: An overview
Thesis - 7 pages - Services marketing
China's economic market is developing at a rapid speed and shows great potential to attract the foreign investors. The increase in the purchasing power of its inhabitants is the main factor motivating the French luxury brands to sell their products in the international market (9.6millions...
Men's luxury ready to wear clothes in France
Market study - 6 pages - Services marketing
The Haute Couture and the luxury ready to wear clothes account for a worldwide turnover of €20 billion. This activity is characterized by a multiplicity of actors and strategies. The weight of the fashion industry in the French economy represents a sales turnover of € 10...
Louis Vuitton marketing strategy and the emerging luxury market in China
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
Louis Vuitton (LV) is the world 1st luxury brand and the leading brand of the LVMH group created in 1987, which was the 1st world group for luxurious goods' production and distribution. LVMH, ?16.5 billion sales worldwide in 2007 (+7.7%), is far ahead of the competition with revenues...
Logistic strategies of the companies of luxury - Example of Louis Vuitton
Case study - 42 pages - Logistics
In this paper, we will focus on logistics and strategies of luxury companies. We will also analyze their future prospects. Initially, key concepts and existing models in terms of logistics are defined in the first paragraph. Therefore, one sees three different types of strategies, the...
The mount of the luxury: the case of Louis Vuitton
Dissertation - 143 pages - Services marketing
In a few years, one can imagine a luxury brand connecting through an accessible format to everyone. This situation is similar to the era when internet or television was unthinkable. Brands always made a point not to address to a target public to be accessible and be closed off. Today,...
Sustainable Luxury
Thesis - 13 pages - Services marketing
Until now, people have been familiar with the bio yoghurts and the bio vegetables but today it is for the luxury industry to become eco-friendly and ethical. Some big groups and companies of the sector have begun to make progress in this growing market. More than ever, the notion of the...
Market for luxury items in Brazil
Market study - 12 pages - Services marketing
Brazil is a country undergoing economic and social growth for several years now, and it is also a part of BRIC (the acronym for four large developing countries at the beginning of the century: Brazil, Russia, India, China, which will represent over 20% of the total weight of the world economy in...
The market for French luxury goods in China
Thesis - 19 pages - Economy general
With a growth of 9.5% per year, the Chinese economy is experiencing a period of unprecedented economic success. This success is accompanied by a dramatic increase in the purchasing power of part of the Chinese population. Therefore, the Chinese market is becoming increasingly demanding for...
Even this simple paper is beautiful: American beauty as a philosophical primer
Thesis - 7 pages - Philosophy
An American Beauty, in the most literal of senses, refers to a breed of roses. The breed of roses first seen in the movie of the same name are most likely that breed. The appropriateness of that name is without question. The American Beauty is an aesthetically pleasing rose. It is,...
The development of Chinese luxury brands in France
Thesis - 4 pages - Services marketing
Even though the emergence of Chinese luxury brand is considered a potential risk in the industry, the Walpole 2005 meeting entirely dedicated to this topic concluded that they would not enter the global market soon. In fact, they are still quite absent in France, where only Shanghai Tang...
The democratization of luxury
Essay - 62 pages - Business strategy
One notes, a strong expansion of the luxury market at the economic level, estimated in 2000 at approximately 90 billion euros (according to a Eurostaf study). Moreover, exploratory studies promise a bright future, with the emergence of a new wealthy class, globalization, and an expansion...
Dove campain for real beauty
Case study - 21 pages - Services marketing
The Dove campaign for real beauty: "Sources that are likeable or hold celebrity status are able to positively influence consumers' attitudes towards the advertisement, and the advertised brand" (Belch and Belch, 1998). This statement explains the large use of celebrities and models by...
Luxury goods in China
Internship report - 4 pages - Business strategy
The increasing demand for luxury goods can be traced back to two important factors. Firstly the transition of China from a planned economy to a market economy and the opening of borders to foreign trade in 1978 have allowed luxury brands to penetrate the Chinese market. Secondly,...
The luxury sector
Thesis - 5 pages - Services marketing
1. The transformation of the concept of luxury over time I-Disapproval of the ideal In medieval Europe, the concept of luxury was associated with decadence. According to scholars and clerics, the decline and fall of all ancient civilizations (such as the Greek cities, Persia,...
The luxury industry
Market study - 31 pages - Business strategy
Petit Robert defines luxury as "lifestyle characterized by large expenditures for purchases of goods by unnecessary taste for ostentation and the greatest welfare." In light of this definition luxury is something expensive, superfluous and ostentatious. The common characteristics...
Chanel and the luxury market
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
A market can be called a luxury market when the products that are sold as part of this market satisfy several criteria such as being excellent quality, have a price perceived that is very high and that the product is a rarity. According to a research firm called Brain and Co, the...
Establishment of the brand of Louis Vuitton luxury on the Japanese market
Case study - 16 pages - Services marketing
France is a country with the largest number of firms in the luxury sector and Japan is a country that imports a lot of luxury goods. It is then natural to focus on the implementation of the first French luxury brand Louis Vuitton, among the largest importer of luxury...
