FEATURED Bloomberg: Hong Kong Retailers Suffer Collateral Damage as Protests Rage
January 29, 2020 News
When tourists come to Hong Kong to shop, they head for a six-block stretch of Nathan Road in the Mong Kok neighborhood. There they can find more than 30 high-end jewelry stores, including 10 outposts of Chow Tai Fook, the world’s second-biggest jeweler after Tiffany & Co. That’s not counting
FEATURED Vogue Business:卡地亚上天猫，远见卓识还是一招险棋？
January 29, 2020 News
在电商经济高速发展的中国，万元珠宝网上卖也许并不是一件特别稀奇的事。但是，当行业领军品牌卡地亚 (Cartier) 也入局将所有产品线全价网上卖的时候，是否预示着这个传统行业下一次变革的大方向？ 1月9日，法国奢侈珠宝品牌卡地亚正式宣布在阿里巴巴旗下的天猫奢侈品平台
FEATURED Vogue Business: Is China ready to buy high jewellery online?
January 29, 2020 News
On 9 January, French high jewellery brand Cartier ramped up its e-commerce strategy in China with the opening of an official flagship store on Tmall Luxury Pavilion, Alibaba’s luxury portal. The move marks Cartier’s latest attempt to connect with digitally savvy Chinese consumers after
FEATURED Luxury Daily: Informal, individualized communications key to engaging China’s younger generations
October 15, 2019 News
China’s millennial and Gen Z audience is looking for brands to speak with them rather than at them, as a study shows they would rather be influential than feel influenced. To read the full article, please click
Observations by CEO Ali Mirza – A tale of two cities: Shanghai to Tokyo
October 14, 2019 Newsletters
Last week on one of my regular business trips to meet with our teams in these two cities, it was encouraging to see how fast Asian affluence levels are rising. How consumers are being served by multiple brands and in turn how brands are reaping great returns. How the Chinese
FEATURED SCMP 6 Things to know about China Gen Z Consumers – and how they can afford luxury brands
October 14, 2019 News
Millennials – a group over 300 million strong – are a key source of growth for many brands in China. Their successors, Generation Z (defined here as the “post-95” generation, aged 15 to 24), are even freer about spending – they include nearly 170 million people and
FEATURED SCMP Crazy Rich Asians: 6 ways Japanese women spend their money differently to South Koreans
September 19, 2019 News
Women have always been a priority segment for luxury brands, and as female spending power has increased, the luxury sector has been struggling to catch up. Although on aggregate the spending power of affluent Korean and
FEATURED Commentary on the latest Iphone
September 16, 2019 News
Just this week, Apple unveiled its line-up of new products for the coming year, with the announcement of three new iPhone models, the iPhone 11, a new Apple watch, a new iPad and updates on their streaming services and Apple Arcade.
