Sentences with phrase «as more luxury»

As with any Audi, striking design was a development priority, but the new Q5 also offers more legroom and cargo space, as well as more luxury touches.

Well, as more luxury travelers seek to experience meaningful trips, more and more resorts and tour companies are donating to charitable foundations and partnering with non-profit groups to help boost local conservation and economic development efforts.

The ES 350 had different exterior and interior styling as well as more luxury features.

A range of available trims provide affordable options as well as more luxury - oriented offerings, so the Highlander Hybrid can accommodate buyers with a range of budgets and needs.

Not exact matches

Jing Daily looks at the intersection of luxury and culture in China: the ins and outs of business development there with an eye toward the upscale consumer market, as well as the business of culture — from auctions, museums, and contemporary art to performance, public events, and more.

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As incomes rise, so too does demand for durables, luxury goods, vehicles, air travel, energy and more.

As we mentioned earlier this month, the Chinese are buying more luxury goods overseas primarily because they're cheaper.

Despite Jung's efforts to position Avon and some of its products as more upscale, if marketers needed to hit a sales goal, they might heavily discount items — a no - no in luxury — in a subsequent catalogue.

It's a luxury request that My Stewards will happily accommodate, but Christina Sutherland notes that she has her eye on the middle rung of Toronto's concierge market, catering to those who are looking for higher - end, personal services — as opposed to one - off hires from Kijiji — but at a more «affordable» rate.

Experts say the second - hand luxury watches business, mostly done via online platforms or specialised retailers, is growing rapidly as a new generation of customers that values variety more than permanent ownership enters the luxury world.

That could be bad news for luxury goods, which have been a bright spot, as high - income consumers tend to spend less in a down market, and may more guarded about their spending in this climate.

PARIS, Feb 8 - Strong demand in Asia for L'Oreal's luxury cosmetics like Lancome fuelled sales growth in the fourth quarter, as the world's biggest beauty products maker faces more muted appetite for its mass market labels, especially in the United States.

But as I found after interviewing more than 160 entrepreneurs for my 2012 book Hungry Start - up Strategy, entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of time for this type of strategy because they could easily burn through their remaining cash in the months it would take to get this process started.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

A spate of hotels aims to make loyalty programs more valuable to customers more quickly — immediately, in some cases — with little extras such as coffee and the morning news (Omni Resorts & Hotels), free WiFi (InterContinental Hotels Group), free WiFi and health club admission (Fairmont Hotels & Resorts) and room upgrades (Small Luxury Hotels of the World).

Look for luxury home sales to suffer a mild slump as homebuyers look for more affordable options because of higher rates.

While sales of its mass - market VW brand have suffered, this has been more than offset by strong demand for luxury Audi and Porsche models as well as Czech brand Skoda.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Each of the companies are expanding upon «luxury» services previously reserved for a small segment of the population Today, technology brings each of these services to the fingertips of anyone willing to download an app and pay for the service, which are also made more affordable, as greater use and improved technology can bring prices down.

All of this means that stores like Holt Renfrew are making an unprecedented play for the male consumer, targeting sharply dressed clothes - horse types like Sinclair, as well as more reluctant luxury customers — guys who care about appearance but would far rather spend time in Radio Shack then Ralph Lauren.

He pushed Cadillac in a more overt, luxury brand direction, going so far as to relocate its sales and marketing operations to New York City to be close to the pulse of global luxury trends.

The luxury real estate market has softened nationally as more ultrahigh - end buildings are coming online around the same time, with fewer foreign buyers entering the fray.

But it is Wintour's role in promoting fashion and luxury goods manufacturing as an important US export business, coupled with her growing political fundraising acumen (according to the Obama campaign, she is a «top bundler», raising more than $ 500,000 for the Obama Victory Fund) that led to speculation she is eyeing a political position.

As for luxury items, leather shoes can be made to order for $ 22, a dress tailored for not much more than that, and a weekly manicure goes for $ 6.

Shares of Tapestry Inc (NYSE: TPR) fell more than 15 percent Tuesday after the parent company of multiple luxury fashion brands such as Kate Spade, Coach and Stuart Weitzman reported its third - quarter results.

The Starwood Preferred Guest ® American Express Luxury Card will be worth more than its $ 450 annual fee for those who can use its $ 300 hotel credit (good for Starwood or Marriott purchases) as well as the free annual hotel night, which can be redeemed for a stay worth up to $ 500.

Sales of high - end and luxury consumer products, such as our performance electric vehicles, depend in part on discretionary consumer spending and are even more exposed to adverse changes in general economic conditions.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«The East Bay's luxury market is starting to come back into a bit more balance between supply and demand as a few more listings come on the market,» he said.

Moreover, the homebuilder didn't see its quarterly profit fall as sharply as some investors had expected, and despite some lower sales prices for its luxury new homes, Toll Brothers said that unit sales were up 12 % for the quarter, and net signed contracts were up by more than a fifth in terms of homes sold.

Her travel posts often feature sports such as skiing prominently, alongside more traditional luxury experiences like food and shopping.

More of those that are selling are choosing the luxury condominium market in downtown Toronto, following a trend of baby - boomers and empty nesters opting to downsize from luxury houses to luxury condominiums in prime neighbourhoods such as Yorkville and the Annex, Alexander said.

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But as trips to Milan and Paris grow steadily more expensive in ruble terms, and imported luxury - goods prices back in Russia are revised higher to reflect the weaker currency, the recent surge in shopping will probably soon fizzle out.

When more money is printed, gold has traditionally been a beneficiary, for two key reasons: 1) If the money - printing is accompanied by economic growth, greater access to capital might boost demand for luxury items, including gold (the Love Trade); and 2) If the money - printing isn't accompanied by economic growth, inflationary pressures might prompt investors to increase their exposure to real assets, such as gold (the Fear Trade).

But Americans take more things for granted today and view as essentials many things that used to be considered luxuries.

«And as wealth increases, luxury threatens the physical less and less in the work of their hands, more and more in the titillation of their flesh; the pleasure of amusement replaces the happiness of creation.

Things that are regarded as luxuries in one economic bracket are considered necessities in the more affluent circles.

As cities grow, more and more people know nature only in tiny yards and gardens, which are luxuries on which their lives do not depend.

Is it no more than an intellectual luxury, as is commonly supposed — the mere satisfaction of curiosity?

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

On the other hand there are a whole bunch of people practicing religion on America who are just as crazy but they are more into luxury and material possessions.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

A hybrid of western and exquisite Chinese design, the luxury property features 288 rooms including 17 spacious suites, as well as two contemporary restaurants, flexible meeting spaces, fitness center, luxurious spa services, and more than 11,300 sq. ft. Grand Ballroom accommodating comfortably over 800 people banquet style.

The boomer generation, for example, embraces more traditional and ostentatious luxury cues, preferring imports and easy - to - identify mechanics, such as Johnnie Walkers» color - coded tiered system.

«New product lines such as Covet and technical innovations such as combination working, new glass colours and decoration makes O - I much more attractive to luxury brands.

Treasury has also singled out several commercial brands in its troubled United States operations as «non-priority» but won't divulge which ones they are, as it attempts to move higher up the value chain and divert more investment into the luxury end of the market.

Having fuelled an extraordinary jump in profits from China after re-positioning Penfolds as a luxury product with Wolf Blass in its slipstream, Mr Clarke will now spend much more of his time in the Treasury offices in California as he attempts an even tougher re-invigoration in the land of Donald Trump.