Why poor service will destroy your luxury brand
Maybe because the idea of personal interaction as the ultimate luxury experience is so ubiquitous, most brands fail to deliver on this count.
Maybe because the idea of personal interaction as the ultimate luxury experience is so ubiquitous, most brands fail to deliver on this count.
If a brand does not create an extreme emotional response for its customers, then the brand cannot create extreme value – and the luxury business is all about extreme value creation.
Pricing is incredibly important for luxury businesses because many of these marketers destroy significant brand equity when they lower prices in search of fast, easy growth. The consequences are almost always fatal.
The European Union and the United States have a combined population of around 780 million with an aging demographic. China is home to a much younger 1.4 billion consumers and has a higher annual population growth than the U.S. and Europe combined.
The shifts that we saw over the first half of 2020 will change the playbook for most luxury brands.
The significance of the collapse of one of the most admired fashion brands cannot be understated. If it can happen to DVF, it can happen to any luxury brand.
When a company focuses on external factors to explain bad numbers, investors should be alarmed because it is usually a cover for internal brand equity and execution issues.
It is no longer just about going through a digital transformation – that was years ago. Today, the focus must be on digital mastery.
China has proven to be the most resilient and fastest-growing luxury market. Many predicted the luxury sector to go into long-term slowdown when the government began taking action against corruption during the mid-2010s, but the opposite happened.
Some brands think they can survive despite not being relevant to young target groups since many sell primarily to consumers over 40. But these young consumers are behavior role models for mature core buyers.