are not conspicuous or ostentatious consumers. They spend conservatively and save carefully. America?s current credit and economic
?Luxury is a very ambiguous word that is used very loosely?, according to Ron
Kurtz, President of The American Affluence Research Center (AARC), which has
conducted a survey that provides a new view of the luxury market and how luxury
consumers define luxury. In this survey, the affluent defined luxury by price
point and brand for 37 products and services.
Affluent Report the Most
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research on the definition of luxury among the affluent Wholesale Lamar
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10% of US households were asked to specify the most they could imagine spending
for 37 different products and services. They were also asked to name the brand
they would most likely purchase for each of the items.
The profile of
the 552 affluent men and women in the national survey sample is: $304,000
average household income, $3.1 million average household net worth, and $1.2
million average value of their primary home. The average age is 55 while 86% are
married and 60% are males.?
Conspicuous Consumers Only 10% of Affluent
Market; Most Affluent Not Familiar with Luxury Brands
?The research
results support two important observations about the affluent market and their
spending on luxury items?, according to Kurtz.
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people with middle class backgrounds who continue to pursue a somewhat middle
class lifestyle with middle class values. Kurtz emphasized that ?about 90% of
the affluent, or 10 million households, are not conspicuous or ostentatious
consumers. They spend conservatively and save carefully. America?s current
credit and economic problems might have been avoided if these affluent people,
with their conservative spending and saving habits, had been recognized as role
models. They have demonstrated the importance and value of living within your
means.?
Second Wholesale Iman
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households that account for less than 1% of US households, might be considered
conspicuous consumers. With the exception of this relatively small niche
segment, the affluent market does not appear to be very knowledgeable about the
pricing and brands of products that are generally recognized by marketers as
being in the higher price points associated with the luxury category. This seems
to create an opportunity to substantially increase the market for high end
luxury products if the affluent market can be educated about why they should
consider buying them and the brands that offer them.
The popular
perception of the luxury market and luxury consumers has resulted from anecdotal
?research? ?provided to the media by retail and luxury consultants that used
examples such as a young Wall Street attorney spending $50,000 of a year end
bonus for a new watch or a secretary spending $1 Wholesale Ben Powers
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Kurtz
observed that ?other examples of conspicuous consumption among the wealthiest 1%
of US households have created the impression that there were many hundreds of
thousands of people making a million dollars a year or more among the ranks of
the entertainers, professional athletes, Wall Street bankers and attorneys,
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taken their company public. In fact the latest Internal Revenue Service data
shows less than 400,000 US households in this income bracket?,
The
results of this survey, together with earlier research by Dr. Thomas
Stanley Wholesale Miles
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witnessed increasingly conspicuous and ostentatious consumption by an
increasingly affluent market for a period of about 30 years, which has been
interrupted by brief interludes of retrenchment during the occasional recession
and the 9-11 tragedy.
With only about 10% of the US affluent engaged in
conspicuous consumption, together with the purchases of luxury goods by
international visitors leveraging the weak value of the dollar, Kurtz believes
?a distorted view of the size and nature of the true luxury market in the US has
been created?.??
The actual size and spending patterns of the affluent
market are well documented by the data from the Internal Revenue Service and The
Federal Reserve Board and the research of the affluent by former Georgia State
University Professor Thomas J. Stanley that began in the 1970s and led to ?The
Millionaire Next Door? and a series of related books beginning in 1996. Dr.
Stanley?s research produced similar conclusions regarding the lifestyle,
values Wholesale
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affluent as that suggested by the AARC research. In fact, since AARC?s inception
in 2002, the results of its research have been consistent with Dr. Stanley?s
research.?
For a more detailed summary of the findings of this research
and its implications, visit our blog post at AffluenceResearch.org entitled
"Popular View of Luxury Spending Debunked in Survey of the Wealthy."
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