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2012 U.S. Luggage & Leather Goods Stores Industry-Industry & Market Report Price: $699.00 (€550.91) ($838.80 (€661.09) Including VAT at 20%) Publication Date: 31-Mar-2012 Format: PDF (Enterprise License) Pages: 114 Publisher: Barnes Reports The U.S Luggage & Leather Goods Stores Industry-Industry & Market Report, published annually by Barnes Reports, contains timely and accurate industry statistics, forecasts and demographics. The report features 2012 current and 2013 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) nationally and for all 50 U.S. States and over 900 metro areas. New to the report this year are: financial ratios, number of firms and payroll estimates. The report also includes industry definition, 5-year historical trends on industry sales, establishments and employment, a breakdown of establishments, sales and employment by employee size of establishment (9 categories), and estimates on up to 10 sub-industries, including trunks and footlockers. Table of Contents

Global Luxury Goods Market Report: 2011 Edition Price: $800.00 (€630.51) ($960.00 (€756.62) Including VAT at 20%) Publication Date: Nov-2011 Format: PDF Email Pages: 55 Publisher: Koncept Analytics Luxury is a relative concept and therefore is hard to define precisely, but anything that makes people feel more luxurious and which is priced far above its functional value is generally regarded as a luxury good. With the increasing wealth, coupled with the rising intention of setting themselves apart have helped in increasing the importance of luxury goods, which further has resulted in growth of the luxury goods market. Along with this, certain other factors contributing to this growth include the growth of professionals, rise in HNWI population and HNWI wealth, increasing families with both working couple, and people with strong desire for luxury products. The global demand for luxury goods has been consistently increasing for the past many years, with the only exception being the year 2009, during which the market experienced the impacts of the US sub-prime crisis. Regionally, Europe, Americas, and Japan are the three major markets for luxury goods, and together account for more than three-fourths of the market. The coming years are likely to witness growth in the emerging economies including China and India, mainly on the back of increasing wealth and rising standard of living of people in these regions. China, in fact, is poised to surpass Japan, and increase its share in the years to come. However, on the basis of the nationality of customers, Japanese customers lead the sphere. In the recent past, the online sale of luxury goods is gaining importance. Also, with the increased adoption of smart phones and increasing applications facilitating shopping through mobiles, the luxury buyers follow a trend to either shop online via mobile or otherwise use mobile to compare the online process with the store prices. The threat of the counterfeit products has been the major factor posing challenge to the luxury goods market. The luxury goods market is highly competitive, with the major factors influencing competition being the quality of products, the brand value and pricing. This report analyzes the development of the global luxury goods market, with a focus on some of the major segments including watches, wines and spirits, and jewelry. The major mature markets including Europe, the Americas and Japan, along with the two emerging markets promising future growth, China and India are being discussed in the report. The major trends, drivers facilitating growth of the luxury goods market as well as the issues being faced by the industry are being presented in this report entitled “Global Luxury Goods Market: 2011 Edition.” The four major players in the luxury goods industry include LVMH, Gucci Group, Hermes International and Richemont are being profiled in the report highlighting their key financials and strategies for growth. By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that impact this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests. Table of Contents/List of Tables/List of Figures

2011 U.S. Luggage & Leather Goods Stores Industry Report Price ENTERPRISE LICENSE $699.00 Publication Date: 31-Mar-2011 Format: PDF Pages: 114 Publisher: Barnes Reports The U.S Luggage & Leather Goods Stores Industry report, published annually by Barnes Reports, contains timely and accurate industry statistics, forecasts and demographics. The report features 2011 current and 2012 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) nationally and for all 50 U.S. States and over 900 metro areas. New to the report this year are: financial ratios, number of firms and payroll estimates. The report also includes industry definition, 5-year historical trends on industry sales, establishments and employment, a breakdown of establishments, sales and employment by employee size of establishment (9 categories), and estimates on up to 10 sub-industries, including trunks and footlockers. Table of Contents

Global Luggage Market Report: 2010 Edition Price: $800.00 (€630.51) ($960.00 (€756.62) Including VAT at 20%) Publication Date: Mar-2011 Format: PDF Email Pages: 40 Publisher: Koncept Analytics The term luggage primarily involves the cases used to carry belongings while traveling, like trunk, suitcase, wheeled upright, garment bag, tote, duffel bag, carpet bag, and rolling luggage. But on a broader scale, many types of bags are included in the term luggage like, leather briefcases, computer cases, carry-ons, garment bags, garment carriers, kids’ luggage, totes, backpacks, duffel bags, motorcycle luggage, trolley bags, vanity case, suitcases and handbags. The worldwide consumption of luggage has been highly correlated to the travel industry. Since, both business as well as leisure travelers cut down their spending on traveling in 2009 due to the global economic downturn, the luggage industry had also witnessed reduced demand during the period. The US is the largest global luggage market. Europe and Japan follow as the other significant markets for luggage, the three accounting for a consolidated lion's share of the global market. In the coming years, the Asia-Pacific market, driven by India, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Hong Kong, among others, is expected to register high growth. The rising trend of online retail sales is having a positive impact on the luggage industry, since customers can easily get considerable amount of information on the internet regarding the available options. Also, the introduction of new and innovative designs of luggage allures people to buy them. The global luggage industry has been intensely competitive and fragmented. There have been a large number of small, medium and large players operating in the industry. Some of them include Atlantic Luggage Co., Eagle Creek, Inc., Forward Industries, Inc., Hartmann Inc., Luggage America Inc., LVMH, Nike, Inc., Platt Luggage Inc., Samsonite, Tumi Inc., Valigeria Roncato and VIP Industries Ltd. The current report analyzes the trade scenario of the global travel goods industry. Also, the US, European Union and Indian luggage markets are being presented in the report. The report discusses the drivers and key issues related to the global luggage market. The three major players of the industry including, Samsonite Corporation, VIP Industries, LVMH and Coach have been profiled in the report. By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that have an impact on this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests. Table of Contents/List of Tables/List of Figures

Handbags Market Report: 2010 Edition Price: $800.00 (€630.51) ($960.00 (€756.62) Including VAT at 20%) Publication Date: 01-Dec-2010 Format: PDF Email Pages: 43 Publisher: Koncept Analytics Handbags represent one of the key accessories completing the wardrobe of women for ages, which also serve as a major driver behind the growth of the fashion world. Changes in the key trends in the handbag market result mainly because of the changes in the fashion and luxury market. Fashion designers and boutiques are increasingly including handbags in their new collections as designer handbags generate high margins. Designer handbags are registered a high growth in the prices for the last several years. The US handbags market witnessed a decline in growth in 2008 and 2009 because of the global economic slowdown. The financial recession not only caused a fall in domestic demand, but also led to a fall in exports. The EU handbags market consists of six major markets - Italy, France, the UK, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands – which collectively account for the majority share in sales and production of handbags. In EU, handbags are mainly sold through specialist chain and independent retailers. The US and EU handbag market is all set to witness a growth in the coming years as result of huge export demand from countries like China and India and also as a result of improving economic conditions in their domestic as well as international markets. Competition has been one of the major characteristics of the handbag market with numerous independent designers launching their own stores. The premium handbag companies mainly include luxury brands as well as private label retailers. For a long time, Europe is the largest market for luxury handbags with brands like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci and Prada; but American designers are giving it a touch competition with new strategies and branding initiatives. Companies like Coach Inc, Louis Vuitton SA, Burberry Group Plc and Hermes International SCA have shifted their attention to under-penetrated markets with huge growth potential, like China and India. Also, companies have realigned their distribution channels to cater to customer needs more efficiently and reduce their operational costs at the same time. The report discusses the handbag market and presents an analysis of the US and European markets. The report also profiles the major companies operating in the industry, with a special focus on their business strategies. The report further analyzes the major trends and growth drivers of the industry. By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that have an impact on this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests. Table of Contents/List of Tables/List of Figures

Global Luxury Goods Market Report: 2010 Edition Price: $800.00 (€630.51) ($960.00 (€756.62) Including VAT at 20%) Publication Date: 01-Oct-2010 Format: PDF Pages: 45 Publisher: Koncept Analytics Luxury market is a broad term that encompasses perfumes, jewellery, watches, clothes, footwear and many more. Based on the utility, and the amount of money spent on buying the product, it can be defined as 'a luxury product'. Such goods are meant to show off a person's prosperity, lavishness, and also serve as a medium of self-expression. This high end market, which was once considered to be accessible only for the elite, has undergone drastic changes with middle income consumers showing interest towards the consumption of luxury goods. The luxury goods market has grown tremendously for the past few years. Amongst all the segments, watches account for the largest share in the global market. More than half of the demand of gold and diamond has been in the jewellery making. India consumes more than one fourth of the total gold produced. In recent years, there has been a shift in the consumer preferences towards platinum. In the luxury watch market, the Swiss watches dominate the luxury goods market, accounting for almost 100% of the global luxury watch production. In the global champagne market, France has been the main producer, and accounts for more than 50% of the global share. Europe has been the largest market for luxury goods in the world and as per the nationality of the luxury consumers, Japan leads having more than one-fourth of the luxury consumers. The luxury goods market is directly correlated with the global economic conditions. Thus, GDP has been one of the major factors affecting the market. Also the growing population of high net worth individuals and the increasing demand from the emerging economies is expected to boost the global market. There has been a trend in the market that people spend more on the luxury goods while traveling. The global luxury goods market has been analyzed in the current report. On a regional basis, the top two markets Japan and China have also been profiled. The report analyses various segments of the luxury goods market - jewellery, watches, perfumes & cosmetics, and wine & spirits. It also profiles the four major players involved in the luxury goods market: LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Richemont, Hermes and the Swatch Company, along with their key strategies for growth. By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that have an impact on this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests. Table of Contents/List of Tables/List of Figures

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