Month: February 2012

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Mainstream brands make a play for the super rich list

MaryLou Costa

For a Q&A with Quintessentially’s co-founder Ben Elliot, click here Explore a case study with private jet magazine The Private Journey, click here To see Ledbury Research’s analysis of wealth archetypes in Asia, Russia and the Middle East, click here There is a group of people for whom the recession has barely registered. They could […]

Ruth Mortimer

Why the customer is your key to leadership

Ruth Mortimer

Anyone can be a leader, argues Professor Richard Jolly of London Business School. It doesn’t have to be the chief executive; it can be anyone who takes a position of authority within an organisation and leverages that for success. The opportunity is ripe for marketers. “Management equals control but leadership equals persuasion,” explained Jolly when he […]

Wealth archetypes

MaryLou Costa

Speaking at the Luxury Briefing Wealth Summit event in London last year, Ledbury Research director James Lawson quipped that luxury brand strategies used to involve a “bun fight over the Sunday Times Rich List”, but today it is more complex than that.