Global Luxury Goods Market Report: 2011 Edition

Koncept Analytics
November 1, 2011
55 Pages - SKU: KOAN6665356
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Countries covered: Global

Luxury is a relative concept and therefore is hard to define precisely, but anything that makes people feel more luxurious and which is priced far above its functional value is generally regarded as a luxury good. With the increasing wealth, coupled with the rising intention of setting themselves apart have helped in increasing the importance of luxury goods, which further has resulted in growth of the luxury goods market. Along with this, certain other factors contributing to this growth include the growth of professionals, rise in HNWI population and HNWI wealth, increasing families with both working couple, and people with strong desire for luxury products.

The global demand for luxury goods has been consistently increasing for the past many years, with the only exception being the year 2009, during which the market experienced the impacts of the US sub-prime crisis.

Regionally, Europe, Americas, and Japan are the three major markets for luxury goods, and together account for more than three-fourths of the market. The coming years are likely to witness growth in the emerging economies including China and India, mainly on the back of increasing wealth and rising standard of living of people in these regions. China, in fact, is poised to surpass Japan, and increase its share in the years to come. However, on the basis of the nationality of customers, Japanese customers lead the sphere.

In the recent past, the online sale of luxury goods is gaining importance. Also, with the increased adoption of smart phones and increasing applications facilitating shopping through mobiles, the luxury buyers follow a trend to either shop online via mobile or otherwise use mobile to compare the online process with the store prices. The threat of the counterfeit products has been the major factor posing challenge to the luxury goods market.

The luxury goods market is highly competitive, with the major factors influencing competition being the quality of products, the brand value and pricing.

This report analyzes the development of the global luxury goods market, with a focus on some of the major segments including watches, wines and spirits, and jewelry. The major mature markets including Europe, the Americas and Japan, along with the two emerging markets promising future growth, China and India are being discussed in the report. The major trends, drivers facilitating growth of the luxury goods market as well as the issues being faced by the industry are being presented in this report entitled "Global Luxury Goods Market: 2011 Edition." The four major players in the luxury goods industry include LVMH, Gucci Group, Hermes International and Richemont are being profiled in the report highlighting their key financials and strategies for growth.

By combining SPSS Inc.'s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that impact this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests.


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