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Food & Drink

New Emerging Affluents

First identified by LS:N Global back in 2012, the New Emerging Affluents (NEAs) have come to define global luxury, retail and fashion, shifting the axis from North to South and West to East.

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Marketing & Branding

New Emerging Affluents

When they were unbanked, uncredited and unregulated, brands were uninterested. But as billions from Guangzhou to Kolkata, Lagos and Santos earn more, gain access to credit and the ability to spend on what they want rather than what they need, brands are very much interested in – and doing all they can to connect with and sell to – the New…

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Travel & Hospitality

Luxury Pilgrims

Religious pilgrimage has never been so popular in India. In 2010, more than 650m Hindu and Sikh worshippers set off to pilgrimage sites across the sub-continent, a rise of 15.5% on the previous year, according to Indian central government figures.But the aspirations of new-found Indian affluence have influenced even the religious believers. These…

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Fashion

Ningbo offers rich prospects in luxury sector

Ningbo offers rich prospects in luxury sector

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Retail

Groupon's new Chinese site is the real deal

Groupon’s new Chinese site is the real deal

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APAC

Great vision: China plans cultural mega-centre

Great vision: China plans cultural mega-centre

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APAC

Despite retail revival, Russia’s millioniki reels from recession

Despite retail revival, Russia’s millioniki reels from recession

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Luxury

Luxury: Chengdu

Known as the Land of Abundance for its agricultural wealth, Chengdu is also the political and economic centre of western China. The capital of Sichuan province, this Tier 2 city of 10m is expanding swiftly and set to gain Tier 1 status within a decade.