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Chanel Raises Price of Bags to Breakaway from Mass Luxury

Chanel’s recent announcement to precipitously inflate prices on their bags, and limit quantities customers can purchase, has hit the headlines, with some questions about how the luxury fashion industry continues to grow despite overall economic inflation. And in this case, considering the level of the price change, Chanel is not raising its...

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Podcast: The Three Levers of Creating Brand Exclusivity

In this episode, “The Three Levers of Creating Brand Exclusivity,” we focus on tools brands have to facilitate exclusivity with a focus on Chanel’s recent announcement to raise the price of their bags.

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Pricing power: Big luxury brands raise prices during crisis

Pricing power: a phenomenon well known to financial analysts and general management. It indicates the practice of a company to increase its prices in periods of economic hardening: it is a question - we understand it easily - to increase its margin to compensate for the fall in sales volumes. Not all companies have this capacity: only those who...