Will China’s luxury labels ever rival French luxury brands ?

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Global luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Dior, are racing to grab a chunk of the Chinese market — and with good reason, considering the country is home to the third-largest population of millionaires and has become the second-largest consumer of luxury goods in the world. Meanwhile, however, hardly any of the luxury Chinese labels that showed have as [...]

China Luxury Panel: The Business of Beauty

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

In 2010, the New York based agency Pao Principle has recruited a proprietary panel of China beauty buyers for the purpose of understanding their attitudes and usage about beauty products. The findings from this report are helping beauty companies better understand what is needed to succeed in this market. 1,014 panelists completed the survey incentivized [...]

Chinese luxury purchasers setting global trends

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

With a continuing boom in the market and rising demand from the newly prosperous, China’s luxury consumer market looks increasingly buoyant, according to the 2009 21st Century Deluxe Report. The report shows a shift in Chinese consumers’ attitudes to luxury purchases, one that has seen them graduate from mindlessly chasing fashion to making far more [...]

Smaller Chinese cities 'key for luxury brands'

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

SHANGHAI (AFP) — Foreign luxury brands looking to win in China need to reach into cities that are barely known to the rest of the world but are home to startling and fast-growing wealth, a series of studies shows. The majority of China’s rich now live outside of the mega-cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and [...]

Focus on Luxury in China

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Interesting study released by Trendsbüro about luxury and consumer groups in China.