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Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods... And How Companies Create Them (Revised and Updated) - Hardcover
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A study on middle-class consumerism finds that today's customers are seeking higher levels of quality, taste, and aspiration, in a revised edition of the best-seller that draws on new research to explore the trading up phenomenon to reveal how entrepreneurs, innovators, managers, and marketers can make the most out of related opportunities. 40,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Michael Silverstein is a senior vice president of The Boston Consulting Group. He has helped clients develop new premium-priced products that command $4 billion in retail sales.
Neil Fiske is the former head of the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group and is now the CEO of Bath & Body Works.
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In Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks traced the cultural forces behind the rise of what he called the bohemian bourgeois class. Now Silverstein and Fiske take a close look at its buying patterns. Both authors have v-p-level experience at the Boston Consulting Group studying retail practices, and they display deep familiarity with "new luxury" goods favored by a growing segment of the American middle market with more disposable income than ever. They're talking about people who take shopping tips from Oprah and Martha, swear their washing machine makes them happy, and dine at "fast casual" restaurants instead of burger chains. Many chapters focus on companies that produce specific luxury items. Victoria's Secret, for example, was a small, seedy store before it was purchased by a visionary retailer convinced American women would be willing to pay higher prices for attractive lingerie in a boutique setting. There's also the case of Callaway Golf, which was able to target new luxury shoppers to achieve a tenfold increase in revenue within just three years. Even the toy market can become a breeding ground for high-end items, like American Girl dolls, a line with an extensive back story that appeals to the luxury consumer's desire to "know" the pedigree of his or her purchases (just as some wine aficionados jump at the chance to display their mastery of California vintages). Despite the book's slight technical flaws, including a high degree of repetitiveness, its insights into a highly lucrative market (e.g., single women earn in excess of $374 billion annually) make this a must read for anyone interested in practical economics.
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- PublisherPortfolio Hardcover
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1591840805
- ISBN 13 9781591840800
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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