"We thought we'd maybe sell one or two to millionaires, " says Karl DeManns, a product manager for Panasonic's high-end plasma group.
It is also empowering the high-end navigation systems of VW group brands Volkswagen and Skoda.
In Ginza, Tokyo's high-end shopping district, a group of 34 tourists from Sweden was riding a large tour bus after shopping on a recent afternoon.
And Gap's high-end line, Banana Republic, has signed a five-year deal with Safilo Group, an Italian luxury-eyewear firm, to sell Banana Republic-branded frames and sunglasses in Safilo's Solstice stores, other retailers and possibly in department stores, too.
The even larger fashion label contracted with the Richemont Group to produce extremely high-end Ralph Lauren brand timepieces.
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XBox, thus far, has cut the middle between being high-end without out-pricing itself to a wide group of entertainment consumers.
"If you want balance--and not everybody does--you have to force yourself to edit yourself personally and professionally, " says Jody Miller, founder of Business Talent Group, a supplier of high-end business talent for projects, consulting and interim roles.
Most telling, he says, is that a high-end Midtown spot such as Lexington Brass, a creation of the EMM Group, chose to get kombucha on tap.
Despite its makeshift location, Shanghai Tang is not poverty-stricken -- it has seven other outposts in Hong Kong, not to mention plenty of business savvy and a powerful owner (the Richemont Group, a Swiss company that also controls other high-end brands like Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Piaget and Montblanc).
At the end of the trial, 11% fewer people in the high-dose group had suffered heart attacks.
There are tens of thousands of high-end merchants that will not accept 25 cents on the dollar to cater to a group of 25 year-old bargain hunters just jumping from deal to deal.
"The single biggest factor is ticket revenue, and a new venue is going to drive high-end ticket sales, " says Bernie Mullin, who runs the Atlanta-based Aspire Group, an industry consultant.
"Those executives are most likely not revealing their high-end costs, " says Bruce Alexander, president of executive protection consulting firm All Source Consulting Group.
Realizing that hiring high-end imagemakers was not the right image for their image-free candidate, the Bradley campaign gagged the Crystal Group last week.
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