Sentences with phrase «middle income consumer»

The increased investment will enable CCA and TCCC to broaden their product offering, develop new consumption occasions and offer a wider range of more affordable products as demand rises from lower and middle income consumers.

Lower to middle income consumers will find that standard cash back cards make more sense.

Kohl's launched the Greatness Agenda in an effort to reinvigorate the company, which caters to middle market, middle income consumers.

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In other words, more than 300 million middle - class consumers with rising disposable incomes are propelling the consumption of China.

Although softness has been reported across much of the retail sector, the department store set is particularly vulnerable because it relies heavily on dwindling mall traffic, and tends to cater to middle - income consumers.

Tsai said rising disposable incomes of China «s «over 300 million middle - class consumers» was helping drive the firm's online sales — and would continue.

In the U.S., Walmart's «stack»em high and watch»em fly» strategy is aimed at middle to lower - income consumers who are watching every penny, while Target has differentiated itself by investing more in the slick look and feel of its stores.

China has some 300 million consumers it considers middle class, although with an average annual income equivalent to $ 5,000, such consumers earn considerably less than their U.S. counterparts.

In the emerging world, many consumers in the rising middle class tap Samsung for their first smart device and trade up into higher - end products as their disposable income grows.

The authors, previously colleagues at Boston Consulting Group, noted how the growing income gap in the U.S. had created not only a sizeable affluent group able to purchase higher - quality items in almost every category but a habit among middle - income consumers of spoiling themselves on a single category of luxury purchases they identify with.

In previous posts, I've made the argument that consumer debt, particularly for middle - income households, is still too high.

Speaking at Tmall's Super Kitchen event, an offline expo of home goods held by Alibaba Group's business - to - consumer site, Stewart said she saw an opportunity to expand her brand into the world's second largest economy as rising incomes in the middle class there were increasingly being spent on lifestyle and experiential purchases rather than staple goods.

Now that China has made the transition from a developing to a middle - income country, its growth will be driven by technology, consumer demand and the services sector.

Rising incomes within the middle class will play a major role in boosting China's consumer economy from $ 4.2 trillion last year to $ 6.5 trillion by 2020, he noted, all despite the country's oft - discussed slowing GDP.

The stagnation of wages among low - and middle - income families and rising costs, of housing in particular, has led to record levels of consumer debt.

I've detailed the decline in a key consumer spending metric, dining out, to demonstrate that middle class disposable income is shrinking quickly.

Conversely, if the individual behind the screen turns out to be a middle - income stock broker, I would not expect him or her to be averse to church - going, a liberal Democrat, an environmentally oriented consumer, or much of a pro-choicer.

Middle and high - income consumers are looking for as few ingredients as possible aside from what they are buying the product for, leading to higher demand for organic, preservative - free, sugar - free and free from trans fats products.

In many Asian markets, highly publicised food scares and an overall distrust in the safety and authenticity of local products is driving the growing consumer groups in middle and high income demographics to seek imported foods and beverages.

The aspirations of the middle and high income class in Russia have been increasing in light of an increase in their disposable incomes; these consumers have been increasingly looking for better quality products and are willing to spend on premium products or products meeting their aspiration desires.

Consumer focus on wellness, environmental impact and macroeconomic factors such as the growth of the middle class creating more disposable income are shaping the global packaging market, said Charles D. Yuska, president and CEO, PMMI.

And even knowing this, I will continue to fight for expanded access to higher education for low and middle - income students by: • Strengthening Pell Grants, student aid, student access, and minority serving institutions; • Reducing red tape for students and graduates; • Removing barriers for non-traditional students; and • Empowering consumers through «sunshine» and transparency in college costs & accreditation.

Greenstein explained that auction funding could be used to help offset higher consumer costs via tax rebates to low - and middle - income Americans.

According to a new study that was just released by Freddie Mac, one - third of low and middle - income consumers are currently using their credit cards to pay basic living expenses.

The number of middle - income consumers seeking debt relief is on the rise, at least with...

The number of middle - income consumers seeking debt relief is on the rise, at least with one debt relief agency.

The whole region has an increasingly urban population, a growing middle - class, and rising disposable incomes — all of which fuels fast - growing consumer markets.

FDO seeks low - to middle - income consumers and sells a selection of competitively priced merchandise.

During the economic downturn of the past few years, card offers aimed at low - and middle - income consumers had slowed.

As a general trend, developing countries suffer more food losses during the production stages, while food waste at the retail and consumer level tends to be higher in middle and high - income regions.

Affordable solar power has made safe, clean, homegrown power a real option for more and more U.S. families — and we're working hard to keep those numbers growing strong, especially among low - and middle - income consumers who have the most to gain from a transition to solar power.

To encourage consumer acceptance and adoption of electric vehicles, SCE's proposal urges development of additional charging infrastructure and continued financial incentives that lower the purchase price of electric vehicles during the early stages of adoption, particularly for low - and middle - income communities.

For the gasoline part of carbon taxes, we estimate that around two - thirds will be paid by above - average - income households (calculated by summing: the first and second quintiles» shares of gasoline expenditures in the pie chart above, plus half of the middle quintile's share, yielding a total of 66 %; data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics» Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2014).

Billing itself as «America's largest full - service consumer law firm,» J&M seeks to provide an alternative source of legal support to lower - and middle - income clients who otherwise could not afford to hire a lawyer.

Second, far from being a damning critique of ABS (it actually notes that the claims by both proponents and opponents of ABS are overblown — a point you clearly missed), it merely concludes that in one particular respect ABS has not, at least as yet, achieved one of the possible benfits that some of its proponents have claimed - namely increased accessibility for civil litigation services for lower and middle - income legal consumers.

Even middle - income consumers avoid lawyers due to cost, and many lower income consumers don't even know that a given problem is a legal one.

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«It's a good - time for middle - income consumers,» said Meredith Adler, managing director for Barclays Capital, New York.

In the latest gathering, analysts addressed the outlook for the middle, including supermarkets and middle - income consumers.

With so many (too many) entering into the practice of becoming consumers» advisors in the real estate business, without the requisite practice; without the requisite background; without the requisite self - confidence; without the requisite detachment from the commission income mentality, it is no wonder that people such as: the dishwashers; servers; factory workers; truck / cab drivers; teachers; office workers; in general, the young and middle - aged unemployed who can't get a job anywhere else (high school drop - outs) etc. types of the world (none of whom are to be denigrated for their particular positions in the job market... except when they think that they are qualified to become Realtors after attending a few weeks of classes and memorizing answers to questions about which they have absolutely no hands - on experience with which to tie their memorized answers to), will willingly buy into paying someone else to professionally «augment» their individual «realities» on the internet.

In Mexico, for now, the focus is on middle - and lower - income consumers, where there seems to be the most growth.

The consumer survey, fielded in August 2010 by the NAHB Research Center to gauge perceptions of affordable and green housing, found that the majority of High (67 %), Upper Middle (65 %), and Middle (59 %) income respondents, as well as nearly half of low income respondents (48 %), indicated they believe a completely green home would be affordable to live in or maintain.

The American middle class is losing its hold on the reins of the U.S. economy, not only because of the drop in incomes and net wealth, but also because the commercial real estate industry is catering to the luxury and working class consumers...

As NRDC acquired Lord & Taylor about three years after Macy's merged with Federated Department Stores and became more geared toward middle - income consumers, Lord & Taylor executives saw an opportunity to become the leading department store player for slightly more upscale, classic department store customer — the suburban woman.

«In the past couple of years, everybody wanted to trade up,» Bucksbaum said in describing the trend of middle - income consumers dabbling in the luxury sector.