expectations were financial services‚ especially brokerage houses. Big Wall Street firms‚ including Merrill Lynch & Co. and PaineWebber Inc.‚ have reported surprisingly large earnings during what could be a record year for the securities industry. Where other industries - including Wall Street - have retrenched‚ big technology companies are still struggling. IBM‚ the No. 1 computer company‚ yesterday reported a loss of $2.8 billion in the third quarter‚ demonstrating it still hasn’t coped with the
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In economics‚ a recession is a business cycle contraction‚ a general slowdown in economic activity. Macroeconomic indicators such as GDP‚ employment‚ investment spending‚ capacity utilization‚ household income‚ business profits‚ and inflation fall‚ while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events‚ such as a financial crisis‚ an external trade shock‚ an adverse supply
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13 March 2013 Economic Recession Affects Present and Future of Luxury Hotels This paper will discuss how economic recession affects present and future of luxury hotels. Society has been affected on all levels by the economic recession beginning around 2007 2008‚ including the hotel industry. Through this economic recession‚ the industry has seen the effects on business and leisure travel. While corporate travel has been more affected by the recession‚ leisure travel to luxury hotels has been affected in
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SUZLON Wind Energy in Agreement to Acquire Belgium’s Hansen Transmissions Pune‚ India / Munich‚ Germany Suzlon Wind Energy signed a definitive agreement for the strategic acquisition of Hansen Transmissions. Hansen Transmissions is a major wind turbine gearbox manufacturer with state of the art manufacturing facilities in Edegem and Lommel in Belgium. Suzlon gains technological leadership from the integration of research and development‚ design and production to evolve the next generation of
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Will to Survive Survivor; somebody who shows a great will to live. Somebody with a great will in life will survive. We all know that it is true‚ yes; we all have free wills that depend on our actions and decisions. Like flying over a rainbow‚ we feel so free and majestically swayed by the exquisite taste of an extraordinary view. We chose to get there‚ we chose the feeling that we’ll get‚ and we chose everything that we do every second of that splendid experience. It is the point of free will
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All industries are characterized by trends and new developments that gradually or speedily produce changes important enough to require a strategic response from participating firms. Industry and competitive conditions change because forces are enticing or pressuring certain industry participants to alter their actions. These driving forces are those that have the biggest influence on the changes underway in the industry’s structure and competitive environment. Shifts in industry growth are a driving
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• Cognizant 20-20 Insights Luxury Retail’s Evolving Landscape Executive Summary The luxury goods market may appear to many as a recession-resistant industry that generates over $1 trillion in revenue‚ but a closer look at the figures suggests otherwise. Luxury retailers‚ which were growing 9% annually a year before the recession‚ saw sales drop on average by more than 13 percentage points from 2007 to 2009. Meanwhile‚ luxury manufacturers saw their revenues decline by an average of 21 percentage
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SYNOPSIS OF PREFERENCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE TOWARDS LUXURY BRANDS PREFERENCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE TOWARDS LUXURY BRANDS Intoduction:- “Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” Whenever you switch on the television‚ or flip through the pages of magazines‚ you are bombarded with celebrity news and reality shows that touch your inner needs to feel beautiful‚ important and recognized. Those gorgeous people in advertisements tell you that their lifestyle
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Luxury market to grow despite weak economy Mahua Venkatesh & Himani Chandna Gurtoo ‚ Hindustan Times New Delhi‚ February 07‚ 2013 Sameira Khanna‚ 42‚ recently bought a Louis Vuitton bag for Rs. 35‚000 on an impulse. Anuj Jatav‚ 25‚ a student‚ purchased a Bang & Olufsen’s Beolit 12‚ a Rs. 70‚000 audio system‚ with help from his father. And the list of expensive purchases in the middle of an economic slowdown is quite long. The luxury goods market —estimated at Rs. 43‚000 crore — not
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economist.com/node/14447276 LVMH in the recession The substance of style The world’s biggest luxury-goods group is benefiting from a flight to quality‚ but the recession is also prompting questions about the company’s breadth and balance Sep 17th 2009 | Paris | from the print edition * * Bloomberg “THERE are four main elements to our business model—product‚ distribution‚ communication and price‚” explains an executive at LVMH‚ the world’s largest luxury-goods group. “Our job is to do such
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