PwC: Luxury hotels overview
PwC: Luxury hotels overview
Liz Hall, head of hospitality and leisure research at PwC, recently commented on the London luxury hotel market. This year saw the UK’s largest room supply increase from new developments in the last decade. In London, the 2012 Games catalysed development on a scale unlikely to be seen again.
Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
A long time ago in New York City, Steve Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms; his wife snapped a photo. The image has inspired an annual father-daughter ritual, where Addis and his daughter pose for the same picture, on the same corner, each year. Addis shares 15 treasured photographs from the series, and explores why this small, repeated ritual means so much.
Steven Addis is a father and photography buff who, by day, harnesses the power of branding for social change.
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO HIM
In the late ‘80s, Steven Addis imagined a creative agency that merged strategy and design, breaking down the walls between strategists, copywriters and designers. That vision evolved into Addis Creson, a brand strategy firm set on creating positive change by working with clients to market meaningful products and to improve their social benefit. The firm is behind the rapid rise of Kashi, the naming of Shutterfly and the launching of the sustainably raised salmon brand, Verlasso.
A photographer, film buff and writer, Addis began documenting the evolution of branding as the online world took shape. An avid traveler and supporter of the arts, he also advises businesses and non-profits through board work for the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive andMapLight.
“Over the years, Addis’s company has evolved from being solely a package-design firm to one that also acts as a full-service agency, one dedicated to positive change. ” Adweek
Armani Hotel Milano:Elegant Domain
Text by Alexandra Marshall
Of the heavyweight Italian fashion houses, none have locked up Milan, the industry’s capital, like Giorgio Armani. The designer’s mega-ads for Emporio Armani and Armani Jeans have plastered the busy intersection of vias Broletto and dell’Orso since 1980; he co-owns the city’s basketball team—called, naturally, EA7 Emporio Armani; and it is also here, on Via Manzoni…
Charter a private train car for $44,000
Charter a private train car for $44,000
Northern Sky offers a train car charter that has four bedroom suites, a living room and a glass dome.
Super Rich- Private jet
Super Rich- Private jet
Despite the global economic turmoil, there is still demand for private jets.
As part of the Super Rich series, Aaron Heslehurst spent the day with Thomas Flohr, who founded the private jet company Vistajet.
With many of the super rich getting even wealthier, demand for a tailored jet service is on the increase.
Fly Like the Rich and Famous: Here’s How
Patrick Margetson-Rushmore, chief executive officer of London Executive Aviation, speaks about how his firm caters to highly demanding super-rich clients.
United Passengers Find 787 Dreamliner to Be a Dream
United Passengers Find 787 Dreamliner to Be a Dream
Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) – Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu reports that United Continental passengers heaped praise on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the craft’s inaugural flight. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
