The luxury strategy : break the rules of marketing to build luxury brands

Kapferer, Jean-Noël

The luxury strategy : break the rules of marketing to build luxury brands / Jean-Noël Kapferer, Vincent Bastien - Second edition. - London ; Philadelphia, PA; New Delhi : Kogan Page, 2012. - xi, 395 pages : illustrations, charts, graphs (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Pt. 1. Back to luxury fundamentals -- 1. In the beginning there was luxury -- 2. The end of a confusion : premium is not luxury -- 3. Anti-laws of marketing -- 4. Facets of luxury today -- Pt. 2. Luxury brands need specific management -- 5. Customer attitudes vis-à-vis luxury -- 6. Developing brand equity -- 7. Luxury brand stretching -- 8. Qualifying a product or service as luxury -- 9. Pricing luxury -- 10. Distribution and the internet dilemma -- 11. Communicating luxury -- 12. Financial and HR management of a luxury company -- Pt. 3. Strategic perspectives -- 13. Luxury business models -- 14. Entering luxury and leaving it -- 15. Learning from luxury -- 16. Luxury and sustainable development : convergences and divergences.

Discover the secrets to successful luxury brand management with this bestselling guide written by two of the world's leading experts on luxury branding, Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien, providing a unique blueprint for luxury brands and companies.

Having established itself as the definitive work on the essence of a luxury brand strategy, this book defines the differences between premium and luxury brands and products, analyzing the nature of true luxury brands and turning established marketing 'rules' upside-down.

Written by two world experts on luxury branding, The Luxury Strategy provides the first rigorous blueprint for the effective management of luxury brands and companies at the highest level.

This fully revised second edition of The Luxury Strategy explores the diversity of meanings of 'luxury' across different markets. It rationalizes those business models that have achieved profitability and unveils the original methods that were used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Armani, Gucci, and Ralph Lauren into profitable global brands.

Now with a new section on marketing and selling luxury goods online and the impact of social networks and digital developments, this book has truly cemented its position as the authority on luxury strategy.



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Luxuries --Marketing
Luxury goods industry
Product management

Bibliography B3 FLM - Distribution Bibliography B3 FLM - Marketing Strategies & Tactics Bibliography B3 FLM - The World of Luxury Bibliography MSc - Fashion & Luxury Marketing Management: Reference Handbooks

HD9999.L852 / K37 2012

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