Sentences with phrase «more luxury have»

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Certainly, some of it had to do with the fact that I was a more confident second - time mom, but, mostly, I think it was the luxury of time — to heal completely, to get my postpartum sh*t together, to get to know my son, and to revel in the experience of caring for what I knew was my last baby.

The luxury sub has room for two passengers and one pilot and can dive more than 1,000 feet.

-- Olivier Reza, CEO of luxury watch membership platform Eleven James, which has raised more than $ 40 million in capital since its founding in 2014

The idea: Customers who own its supercars, but drive another company's luxury SUV when they need more space beyond a tiny front - trunk, would upgrade to a Lambo SUV with the same Italian styling.

While Google is not any entrepreneur's rival of choice, Vogt is right that it has made his task easier in one regard: The tech behemoth has proved the concept works, having famously tested a fleet of self - driving Toyota Prius cars and Lexus RX luxury crossovers while mapping every inch of northern California and racking up more than 700,000 miles of robotic driving.

Food with labels like organic and natural has simply become another luxury good in which people are coughing up more than a product's true value, Friedberg says.

The 5,300 - pound luxury sedan offers more performance and safety than most people in the world would ever need.

Larger, more established companies have the luxury of enjoying brand awareness, but the owners of startups need to be more descriptive when stating what they bring to the table.

Today, just four years later — and a spectacularly lousy four years for luxury products like Penot's — Le Labo has grown into a $ 4.5 million a year fragrance brand with four stand - alone boutiques worldwide (and four more planned by the end of this year), plus 12 counters inside the world's most exclusive retail enclaves, including Barneys New York and Colette in Paris.

Meanwhile, Citi has more reason to favor the luxury retailer.

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.

Whereas the traditional «actives» skewed heavily to the baby boom and senior generations, this new group is driven by members of gen X and Y, and sees more males spending on luxury goods and services than has traditionally been the norm.

«Alice is the answer to what I wish I would have had when I started my very first company,» says Rodz, referring to the luxury gift line she created and sold in more than 400 stores worldwide.

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.

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.

«Instead of trying to discount down a luxury vehicle, we start with a vehicle that really has a good price point but is more expensive than other vehicles in the segment.

Amazon with its low - margin retail business, in his view, doesn't have that luxury, a characterization that AWS, which sold more than $ 2 billion in cloud services for its most recently reported quarter, would probably dismiss.

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.

That boils down nicely to a partnership of two highly esteemed brands, making Apple's must - have wearable even more covetable with a luxury fashion boost.

By appealing to the mass - market, companies have access to more potential clients, and they'll likely face less initial competition since incumbents offering this luxury product or service likely ignored this portion of the population.

Luxury partnerships like this one might have a more niche market — those who already drive new BMWs — but that market can afford to match their gear to their wheels, making this feel like an authentic partnership for the design - minded.

And even more luckily, I have another gig and so I have the luxury of saying «bye - bye» if anyone tries to tell me what to write.

Among other signs of its resurgence, Crescent City has undergone a building boom — with luxury hotels and a billion - dollar state - of - the - art health center, and more sporadic rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward.

I've thought about this topic a lot, and I keep coming back to the same annoying conclusion: lots of families spend all of their income (or more), and when they realize this is a problem, they try to cut back on small luxuries when they should be thinking about housing and car expenses — the elephants in the room.

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.

Now more than ever, technology has the ability to bring luxury products and services to the masses.

Luxury handbag maker Dagne Dover has seen more than $ 1 million in direct - to - consumer sales through its online store.

The financial challenges of the labor shortage have become so pronounced, it's forcing more and more builders towards luxury projects to help recoup the added cost of delays.

When asked about Carpool Arabia's methodology when choosing its investors, de Terssac candidly admits that it wasn't a walk in the park, saying, «Choosing is maybe a luxury you have in Silicon Valley, but here, it's more about who is crazy enough to invest in an early stage tech venture, rather than buying another apartment in Dubai Marina.»

In the U.S., which has more high - income earners, luxury represents 12 % of overall sales.

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.

With the Starwood Preferred Guest ® American Express Luxury Card, you have to spend a little bit more than a $ 1 per mile.

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Located on the north coast of Saint Lucia, the hotel has invested more than $ 7.1 million to expand the resort to include four additional luxury North Point Villa s and renovate over some of the existing villas.

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

At the same time, many true luxury brands have gone down - market to scoop up more customers, which is why you can now buy a Mercedes B - Class for less than a well - equipped Toyota Camry.

The city's first condo costing more than $ 100 million, which sold in the last few weeks at the new luxury tower One57, had property taxes this past year of $ 17,268, according to the city's finance office.

They have the luxury of doing this because they get more traffic than any other website, and they have the drive to do this because performance is their life.

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.

Snell Real Estate in Los Cabos, which has more than 50 multilingual realtors and support staff, says the alliance with the luxury real estate auction firm, which specialises in multimillion - dollar property sales, will help boost marketing and sales option to its clients.

Mexico agency, Snell Real Estate, has formed a partnership with Platinum Luxury Auctions to help reach more international property buyers.

That change has required an investment in paid social media to become more of a necessity than a luxury.

Founders are devoted to the most important (work) project of their lives; investors have the luxury of more than one such project at a time.

With rising competition amongst firms, promoters have the luxury of being more selective while choosing their investment partner, according importance to the investment team and their past track record.

Tesla has started at the high end of the auto market with a luxury sedan for about $ 100,000 and a large SUV for about $ 200,000, and has proceeded to introduce a more affordably priced sedan in the $ 50,000 range.

HAL has a higher price tag because of it's promise to give you a more luxury atmosphere, which basically means more material things.

Luxury retailer Nordstrom Inc. has equipped its salespeople with tablets to allow customers a more efficient checkout process anywhere in the store.

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).

I have the added luxury of having a very high iq which again is more common in the mentally ill than not.