LVMH: Diversification Strategy into Luxury Goods Strategic Issues By 2002‚ Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton was the world’s largest luxury products company‚ enjoying annual sales of 12.2 billion euros. LVMH carries the most prestigious brand names in wine‚ champagne‚ fashion‚ jewelry‚ and perfume. Upon entrance of this luxury product industry‚ LVMH was aware that they produced products that nobody needed‚ but that were desired by millions across the world. This desire in some way fulfills a fantasy
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LVMH and Luxury Goods Marketing 1. Bernard Arnault has built LVMH into a luxury goods empire by making numerous acquisitions. Describe the strategy is being used here? Discuss why you agree or disagree with this type of strategy. If you disagree‚ what alternative tactics would you use? Actually Mr. Bernard Arnault‚ one of the richest men in the world who took control of LVMH in 1990‚ has been snapping up luxury brands during past two decades one after another. He has build LVMH into a
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LVMH and Luxury Goods Marketing 1. Bernaud Arnault has built LVMH into a luxury goods empire by making numerous acquisitions. What strategy is evident here? LVMH or more specifically Bernaud Arnault wants luxury items to appeal to everyone‚ not just the wealthy and elite as in the past. The major issue in doing this is to keep the core luxury consumers‚ which means still keeping the product exclusive or exclusive feeling‚ while making the product available to a larger market. LVMH has used licensing
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On a crisp late October afternoon in Paris Bernard Arnault‚ Europe’s richest man‚ is talking about his upcoming trip to one of the fastest-growing outposts of his LVMH empire: Mongolia‚ of all places. "I like to see the reaction of the people in the shops‚" says the 61-year-old mogul in lightly accented but supple English. Dapper and slim‚ he wears a navy suit and matching tie made by his flagship fashion label‚ Christian Dior ( CHDRF.PK - news - people )‚ and handmade black loafers by Berluti‚ one
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Case 11-2 LVMH and Luxury Goods Marketing LVMH Moet Hennessy- Louis Vuitton Societe Anonyme is the world’s largest marketer of luxury products and brands. The French company‚ headquartered in Paris‚ has been built into a worldwide‚ billion dollar company with the help of Bernard Arnault‚ “the pope of fashion.” Arnault said of LVMH‚ “We are here to sell dreams. When you see a couture show on TV around the world‚ you dream. When you enter a Dior boutique and buy your lipstick‚ you buy something
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Discuss the rationale behind the WS and PS curves (12 marks) Keynesian macroeconomics assumes that markets are imperfect and this as the result of lack of competition. The implication of imperfect market is that agents are no longer price takers as in perfect markets‚ but become price setters. In product markets the firms are price setters considering the elasticity of demand which is partly dependant on competition. In the labour market‚ workers are the wage setters. Through collective bargaining
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LVMH‚ the Multi-Brand Conglomerate Weakness: 1. Sustenance of multi brand strategy 2. Dependence on star designers Strengths: 1. Leading luxury goods companies - $ 12 billion fashion and liquor conglomerate 2. Strong brand portfolio with 10 star brands and 60 top brands 3. Wide geographical presence 4. Leadership and charisma of Bernard Arnault 5. Human resource management LVMH Opportunities: 1. World wide presence through acquisitions of famous brands 2. Growing luxury markets in emerging
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decision of luxury product A survey of Chinese customer in China Prepared by: Zhang Yuwen (Grace) 014201100227 Lecture by: Orlando R.Santos Subject for: Research Methodology President University Bekasi-West Jawa Indonesia Ⅰ Introduction 1.1 Background of Study For luxury product and brand in the past three decades‚ Chinese market is unprecedented booming. From Pierre Cardin dominate early‚ later Louis Vuitton Illustrious‚ to each proliferation of luxury brands‚ the
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RATIONALE BEHIND M&A Motives There are two types of motives involved in merger and acquisition and these are Explicit and Implicit motives. Explicit Motives • Synergy: Synergy means that the merged firm will have a greater value than the sum of its parts as a result of enhanced revenues and the cost base. • Economies of Scale: Economic of scale refer to the reduction in unit cost achieved by producing a large volume of a product. Horizontal mergers aim at achieving economies of scale. This
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03/17/04 LVMH IN 2004: THE CHALLENGES OF STRATEGIC INTEGRATION The correct strategy is to know where a particular brand is headed and the managers and teams of each brand must imagine that. Then‚ we watch what is done at the group level and we extract a number of learnings: what are the businesses to acquire‚ where do we have to invest to develop this or that brand to benefit the group as a whole. —Bernard Arnault‚ Chairman and CEO‚ LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton1 INTRODUCTION LVMH was created
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