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Trendwatching.com is a London-based trend-spotting firm and their assessment is that an increasing number of Western brands will launch new products or even new brands dedicated to consumers in emerging markets in 2011. Brazilian, Indian, and particularly Chinese consumers can expect to see more products next year that are specifically tailored to their [...]

The fashion industry in UK is very large and they are claiming government support as their growth will have a positive impact on the entire economy. It is already worth   £21bn to the UK economy. Harold Tillman told Sky News in an interview that that the sector must be recognized for the boost it gives to the national economy. The man behind the [...]

The eye of the recession storm is said to have passed. The world is now slowly recovering from the greatest economic bust since the Depression. The US says it has edged out of the economic meltdown, Australia is said to have survived the recession easiest and earliest. Anyone who comes from a typhoon-riddled country could attest that the eye of the [...]

While Australia’s stock market lost 59 percent and a 5.7 percent unemployment rate also assailed the country, it is ‘the only developed country to avoid technical recession.’ Australia has breezed through the global economic downturn ahead of any other developed country. The country’s ‘stock market has bounced back almost 30 percent since [...]

In 1982, Starbucks was originally marketed as America’s “third place,” with ‘home’ and ‘work’ as the other two. 20 years later in 2002, it was the dominant specialty-coffee brand across North America, with practically no advertising expenses except for point-of-sale collaterals and local store marketing efforts. Also in that year, Starbucks [...]