"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.
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.
Mr. Levin says his target female buyers are active women from ages 18 to 35 a group he calls "lululemons, " referring to the popular high-end yogawear label.
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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.
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 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.
Over the last few years, the U.S. working group has been successful in pushing Chinese authorities to drive fake golf goods out of high-end malls and most legitimate retail outlets.
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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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