Euromonitor International’s latest research on the global luxury goods market indicates another solid year’s performance for 2013. Driven mainly by strength in emerging economies, overall retail growth is set to be stronger than in 2012, with luxury goods sales to exceed US$318 billion worldwide. This will represent a year-on-year real value gain of over 3% … Read more
Hiring your own private island just got even more irresistible. After a two-year renovation, Sir Richard Branson’s luxury Caribbean Necker Island hideaway reopened its doors. The main Great House resort on Necker Island, burned to the ground in a spectacular fire two years ago, but it has reborn from its own ashes … Read more
New luxury hotel brand launches out of London. An ambitious plan of glh (Global Hotel Company) hopes to put the squeeze on well-established luxury brands like the Mandarin Oriental, the Ritz-Carlton, and The Four Seasons. The London-based global hotel subsidiary of the Singapore-listed GuocoLeisure Group, announced the launch of a new luxury hotel and private … Read more
Fortune Heights Super Nations Cup 2013. The sport of polo made a triumphant return to its ancestral home of China, as Hong Kong China defeated England 11 – 7 to clinch the Fortune Heights Super Nations Cup 2013. The quartet of Dirk Gould, Joao Ganon, John Paul Clarkin and John Fisher put in inspired performances … Read more
Champagne Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve or Brut Millesime 2000 are among the few to earn the “ultimate accolade” of excellence: Master at the Champagne Masters 2013, a competition created and run by the drinks business and an extension of its successful Masters series for spirits. The competition is exclusively for Champagne and almost 100 entries … Read more
With top speeds approaching 300mph and world record-breaking acceleration, boutique Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg wants to go even further. In an interview for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Christian von Koenigsegg, the founder and the CEO of the hypercar manufacturer, unveiled plans to present Koenigsegg One:1 supercar prototype, which will boast 450km/h top speed. The concept aims … Read more