Sentences with phrase «as upmarket»

XPS began life as an upmarket consumer brand, but I expect a lot of business users will prefer it to the more utilitarian Latitude models, and the more expensive Precision workstations.

The country's capital has the most diverse array of bars, clubs and music venues as well as upmarket cocktail lounges, tapas bars and lively discos.

Gili Lankanfushi, Maldives is positioned as an upmarket boutique resort that stands at the forefront of the eco-luxury sector and acts as a benchmark for luxury resorts.

The town sprawls for several miles inland away from the beach, providing plenty of room for cheap accommodation and a very active metropolitan area, as well as the upmarket beach - front holiday resorts that are common to the rest of Bali.

Banus has incredible shops such as Versace, Robert Cavelli, Louis Vuitton, Emporio Armani and La Perla all overlooking the impressive marina, as well as an upmarket shopping complex with top quality high street brand stores, art galleries, coffee shops, and a host of restaurants and bars.

On the downsize, the new Volkswagen Passat interior does not feel as upmarket as the one on the Insignia, plus it is not as fun to drive as the Ford Mondeo.

The shorter Santa Fe (now referred as «Santa Fe Sport») fills the need for a midsize crossover, while the longer Santa Fe (referred as «Santa Fe») replaces the outgoing Veracruz as an upmarket, 7 - seater crossover.

[35][45] Sold as an upmarket alternative to the locally produced Corona T140, the sole powertrain offered was the gasoline 2.0 - liter 2S - EL engine with 77 kW (103 hp) coupled with the five - speed manual or four - speed automatic transmission.

As an upmarket XSE model, our test Corolla isn't cheap — $ 25K opens up a huge range of models these days, but Toyota includes leather seating surfaces, a moonroof, heated front seats and, for an extra $ 525, the company's excellent Entune phone / navigation / radio interface with uprated audio.

It's not as upmarket as the MINI's cabin, but it has the edge over the slightly dated Fiesta's.

And while the cabin is robustly built, it's not as upmarket as those in rivals like the MINI Cooper S and VW Polo GTI.

The rest of the cabin doesn't feel quite as upmarket as the C - Class or A4, but there's no doubt that there's a clean elegance to it.

> Interior and tech — Not as upmarket in places as you'd hope for the lofty price, but the infotainment system is sharp and cinch to use.

The Octavia comes across as upmarket of the Leon thanks to its higher - quality interior trim and smarter graphics, and it treads surprisingly closely to the Golf's and A3's toes here.

It is a much more organic path where you get pulled by staying close to your customers, having an open line of communication internally and externally, and strategically investing in your product and organization as the upmarket demand increases.

What started as an upmarket real estate agency has grown into a multi-divisioned organisation that can help Chinese migrants build ASX - listed companies.

Not exact matches

When Piëch resurfaced in 1972 at Audi, by then owned by VW, he dragged it upmarket almost single - handedly with a series of engineering innovations, such as the four - wheel drive system for the Quattro.

Weber's appointment comes just over a year after Murphy took over the job and relaunched the title as an «upmarket product.»

RooR, a company based in Frankenthal, Germany, makes upmarket water pipes (commonly referred to as bongs) that command top prices.

As companies shift their focus upmarket, sales expert Jorge Soto recommends a seven - step process:

As a small business moving upmarket, you should find allies with like - minded companies in your industry on ambitious initiatives.

Coles boss John Durkan has dismissed suggestions the retailer is shifting upmarket or reducing its focus on price as it prepares to demerge from parent Wesfarmers.

He continually talks as if God were some sort of upmarket figure in space and time.

Another variation of this marinade — made by those who are more health - conscious, such as cooks in upmarket restaurants — eliminates the oil and introduces Sprite (the soft drink): it consists of tomato ketchup, lime juice, Sprite, soy sauce (in a respective ratio of 5:3:3:2) and a bit of crushed garlic.

While it still operates a substantial cask wine business and many of its brands are in the «commercial» wine segment, it has also moved further upmarket with acquisitions such as the Grant Burge Wines purchase in late 2014.

Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates is starting an upmarket French wine portfolio with a new brand mainly targeted at the China market, which it claims will be a «disrupter» as it pushes to lift profit margins higher.

It took me a while to find it as our local rural town supermarket did not have any... needed a bit more upmarket town!!

Tevfik expects the upmarket retailer's rival, Myer, to generate interest among international players, as it trades at a 40 - to - 50 per cent discount to the global sector average.

While it still operates a substantial cask wine business and many of its brands are in the «commercial» wine segment, it has moved further upmarket with acquisitions such as the Grant Burge Wines purchase in late 2014.

Coles boss John Durkan has dismissed suggestions the retailer is shifting upmarket or reducing its focus on price as it prepares to demerge from parent Wesfarmers.

Last year market research company Mintel predicted that savoury flavours - from olive oil to cheese and bread - would gain mainstream popularity as they made their way from upmarket foodservice outlets to small - batch artisan producer and then to larger retail outlets.

If IGA is unable to defend against the growth of Aldi and a re-energised Coles and Woolworths, it is highly probable it will either exit the market or reposition itself upmarket as a premium grocer.

At lunch and dinnertime you can dine everywhere from a sushi train to an upmarket restaurant, as most eateries in Sydney are used to have little customers at their tables.

You very rarely get to see that sort of politician, and I'm certainly not that type of individual,» he concedes as we sit in the courtyard of an upmarket Westminster hotel.

The problem is that many others - who have not met the foreign secretary in person - often still see him as a kind of upmarket Nigel Farage, a Eurosceptic clown with clout.

William Hague said «we should be ready for that and aware of that» as he revealed a rapid deployment team is being sent to Kenya to help in the aftermath of the atrocity at an upmarket shopping centre in the capital.»

Last Friday, as diners enjoyed a meal at the upmarket London restaurant STK, a noisy protest took place outside.

Upmarket hotels such as The Peninsula have a dress code and Asian women are beautifully dressed in the evenings so beware.

Kensington is one of my favourite areas to visit in London due to its upmarket and historic architecture, the white washed buildings of Chelsea always appeal as they look ever so elegant.

Thankfully, that still makes for a better, funnier and more considered movie than much of what passes for nonfranchise studio filmmaking, even as it shows a world almost exclusively white, straight and upmarket.

As online learning marches upmarket, we can't ignore the basic unmet infrastructure needs inside the vast majority of America's school buildings.

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But as Netflix aggressively moved upmarket, it not only beat out Blockbuster on convenience and cost, but also on selection and video quality.

But as the innovation advances, it moves «upmarket,» its uses expanding to complex tasks in resource - rich milieus.

With annual sales quoted as around 250, it's clear the STI's high CO2 and relatively low levels of luxury no longer make it competitive against increasingly upmarket and more environmentally friendly hot hatchbacks such as the VW Golf R and BMW M135i.

So it may have come as something of a surprise that it's reimagined the model and moved it a little further upmarket with a 6 - series moniker.

Basically, Subaru decided to go a bit more upmarket than Scion, so the BRZ's starting price is $ 1335 more than the Scion's but includes more equipment, such as standard navigation.

A new type of wood, a striped light oak veneer, looks particularly Scandinavian, as if Ikea suddenly went upmarket and consulted with Audi on the design.

Don't take that as a complaint though, as the A-class advanced Merc's interiors significantly when it arrived and it still looks, and feels, fresh, neat and upmarket.

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