Seventy (70) percent
of wealthy consumers identified location as the most important factor in their last residential purchase.
There is already a substantial cohort
of wealthy consumers in Asia, but no real evidence of increased demand and prices for Australian farm products.
This is likely to produce a new wave
of wealthier consumers with an interest in healthier and more nutritious food and drink products.
Not exact matches
All
of that is making
consumers feel
wealthier, which could lead to more spending.
Tara - Nicholle Nelson is the author
of «The Transformational
Consumer: Fuel a Lifelong Love Affair With Customers By Helping Them Get Healthier,
Wealthier and Wiser.»
One
of the cornerstones
of conservative politics is cutting taxes for the
wealthy — whether that's the corporate tax rate on businesses or the individual tax rate for
consumers.
With a $ 17 - trillion economy and some 500 million
of the world's
wealthiest consumers, the European Union is the largest single common market, foreign investor and trader, according to the Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
While more than half
of U.S. households with internet have Prime, the program is particularly popular with
wealthier consumers.
This group
of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact
of rising but less -
wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class
consumers.
The company had long pursued educated
consumers over
wealthy ones, and Shields knew this region had more colleges than any other part
of the country.
, Yosef Bonaparte analyzes data from the triennial Survey
of Consumer Finances to find out why the
wealthiest investors achieve superior stock returns.
Many contended that the rules would drive up costs for companies and
consumers, put commissioned brokers out
of business and deprive less -
wealthy investors
of access to advice.
Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots
of consumer goodies, but the
wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest
of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.
Economic policy in the slow - growth years
of Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2 was trickle - down: income was shifted dramatically to the very
wealthy, while the real wages
of the broad
consumer base dropped.
Charlie Chen, head
of the investment bank's China
consumer research, said younger and more
wealthy Chinese are more discerning than ever, and just because a brand is from offshore it does not mean they will buy it.
In the meat sector
wealthier Asian
consumers are increasing consumption
of chicken, pork and fish.
The textile and clothing industries are important components
of economic development, and
consumers who demand safe conditions and fair wages for farmers and industrial workers could help ensure that such development benefits everyone, not just
wealthy factory owners.
IT IS one
of the planet's last true wildernesses, yet a handful
of the world's
wealthiest nations are plundering its riches to satisfy the appetites
of luxury
consumers — all with the help
of billions in public money.
In toilet terms, the
wealthy consumers of the United States are the next frontier.
According to a new study in the Journal
of Consumer Research,
wealthier people are more likely to donate to charity if they endorse social inequality while less
wealthy people are more likely to make donations if they endorse greater equality.
In the meantime, the relentlessly ambitious and
wealthy soft drink companies with their very hip life - style ads manage to seduce ever increasing numbers
of consumers, most
of them our kids.
However, the problem remains that commercial fishermen (who supply ordinary
consumers with seafood) operate under different rules than the deep - pocketed recreational fishing sector; the latter too often have the ears
of legislators, who tend to favor
wealthier constituents and state tourism industries.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the American Affluence Research Center took a poll among the
wealthiest 10 percent
of Americans and found that among the 11 million households representing about half
of all
consumer income in this country, plans to reduce spending will mean a softness in the sale
of new motor vehicles in the next 12 months.
E-book discussions in South Africa tend to center around the country's
consumer book buying market, «which is very small and
wealthy relative to most
of the country,» Attwell said.
Wealthy consumers who spend large amounts on their credit cards each month have a high risk
of damaging their credit.
I can't guess what is happening in the
wealthier neighborhoods, but I suspect that credit scores might not be seeing the same declines as high card limit
consumers cut back their spending to counteract the impact
of some limits being lowered.
We've also seen
wealthy emerging market
consumers indulge in an orgy
of conspicuous consumption, which shows no signs
of abating — it's even trickling down to the burgeoning middle classes in those markets.
Affluent are more often victims
of ID theft, report shows —
Wealthy consumers who enjoy leisure activities such as tennis, skiing and international vacations are top targets for identity thieves, according to a new report.
Both
wealthier consumers and those who are on a budget are interested in natural remedies, said Efroim Gurman, Ph.D., Dr.Sci., CEO
of VetVittles LLC in New York.
Reward Points Credit Card: More rewarding for
wealthy consumers — Card issuers hope to get
wealthy shoppers to charge more
of their holiday purchases.
A new series
of advertisements running through September 2007 features credit card giant Visa USA aiming to inform
wealthier consumers about premium rewards offered by its Signature line
of Visa credit cards.
Obviously,
wealthy consumers can afford many
of these luxuries on their own.
Luxury images
of equestrian sports and
wealthy leisure pursuits are repurposed, as are furniture ready - mades into new sculpture where an exchange between
consumer image, domestic object and organic matter test the ubiquitous conventions
of tradition against the unwieldy nature
of the ageing process.
One way to prevent the creation
of new high -
consumers would be to persuade the
wealthy to have fewer babies and to close off the borders
of wealthy countries, preventing low -
consumers from immigrating and becoming high -
consumers.
Like all
of Obama's green expenditures (billions
of dollars over past three years) this was another failure that reveals why governments should not be wasting tax - payer dollars subsidizing Al Gore and
wealthy consumers.
But for the
wealthy who purchase this rolling $ 40,000 + Weber grill, they get subsidized by all the rest
of us to the tune
of $ 7,500, which Obama now wants increased to $ 10,000, per
wealthy consumer.
Rex Wyler, ecologist (born 1947) «The
wealthy nations and
wealthy consumers have,
of course, the greatest impact, but sheer numbers do count.
Among
consumers in
wealthy countries, those in Great Britain, Germany and Australia each have a Greendex score
of 50.2, those in Spain register a score
of 50.0 and Japanese respondents 49.1.
But it will nevertheless come with two negative effects on economic growth:
Consumers will have less equity to tap through their equity lines
of credit, and they'll feel less
wealthy based on their unrealized gain, both
of which will inhibit their spending.
For example, one
of the white papers released by the company focused specifically on the post-recession
wealthy consumer.
Most
of the individual tax cuts accrue the most to the
wealthiest Americans, and they are not likely to be an inducement for much new
consumer spending.
On average,
wealthy consumers with a gross annual household income
of at least $ 400,000 spent 225 percent more on their most recently purchased residential property than those with incomes between $ 250,000 and $ 399,999 ($ 2.58 million vs. $ 792,000).
The most commonly cited reason for
wealthy consumers not considering the purchase
of a residential property was the desire to keep assets liquid (24 percent).
According to the survey
of Americans age 21 or older with a minimum gross annual household income
of $ 250,000, 43 percent
of younger
wealthy consumers are considering the purchase
of residential property in the next 12 months, compared to 21 percent
of those age 55 and older.