Status spirits market on the rise, and likely to endure recession
Alcoholic beverages that retail for $100 or more, the so-called “status spirits” market, grew 7 percent annually from 2014 to 2018, becoming a $8.3 billion market.
Alcoholic beverages that retail for $100 or more, the so-called “status spirits” market, grew 7 percent annually from 2014 to 2018, becoming a $8.3 billion market.
Brands have struggled to catch up with the connected, modern luxury customer, as the mechanisms they relied on to build exclusivity have disappeared.
Just in: brand focus is not on the end customer, but on the communities to which they belong.
Shopping malls and luxury brands who were the No. 1 choice for shoppers before the crisis regained customers first.
The LVMH-owned brand was valued at $51.8 billion by the BrandZ report’s producers, ad agency conglomerate WPP and its Kantar market research arm.
Luxury online purchases from first-time buyers were up 181 percent year-over-year in April 2020, as shoppers turned to ecommerce for purchases of goods they would have usually bought in stores.
There is no question about it: brands looking to thrive and even just survive in today’s market are those that understand the millennial consumer. However, not all millennial consumers are created equal, especially when it comes to income and potential spending power.
Channels with greater flexibility and agility in creating, editing and optimizing creative will experience less of an impact, per a new IAB study of advertising buyers’ intentions.
Many consumers, particularly the aspirational, may not be able to justify buying personal luxury goods such as leather goods, fashion, watches and jewelry as some see no reason to use them in the foreseeable future.
Even though we now live in a digital world, most luxury goods and services brands operate like Industrial Age pipelines with rigid linear processes and high fixed costs.