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- 22 Jul 2010

Blood, Debt and High School Sex

The sound bites and statistics that are causing a stir in luxury circles

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 Ideas are cheap and available—it’s all about the execution. A team that’s well-rounded, complementary and has personalities that gel is critical in building a strong and sustainable business. 

Alexis Maybank, co-founder of Gilt Groupe
(on what makes a start-up work)
Wall Street Journal

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$463 million

the size of Prada’s three year bank loan to refinance a long-standing debt and to propel the company’s retail growth.


Vogue

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 Digital marketing’s like high school sex. Everybody’s talking about it. Few people are doing it, and those that are doing it, aren’t doing it very well. 

Keith Weed, CMO of Unilever
(at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival)
Media Week

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$75,000

the cost of the limited edition biography of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar,
published by luxury book specialists Kraken, and which uses the subject’s blood on the signature page

BBC

Members opinion

  • Karen Weiner Escalera Generation Y: Luxury's Most Buoyant Market by Karen Weiner Escalera 3 May 2012
  • Isa Lavs Luxury Shopping in the UK: How the Market Continues to Grow by Isa Lavs 1 May 2012
  • Marina Cozzika South Africa’s Luxury Consumers Buck International Trends by Marina Cozzika 25 Apr 2012
  • Sophie Maxwell Has Luxury Brand Diversification Gone Too Far? by Sophie Maxwell 18 Apr 2012

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