Vogue, Vuitton Marketers Don't Understand India PDF E-mail
B V Krishnamurthy   
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Marketers and advertisers do not seem to understand the Indian market one bit.The controversy surrounding Vogue India's portrayal of luxury goods being "used" by ordinary people represents a dilemma that will neither go away any time soon -- nor does it have a simple solution.


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really?
written by Stu Juices, September 12, 2008 08:04 AM
I'm sorry. Let me get this right. Because there are slums in India, luxury companies are not supposed to promote their products or an aspirational message (about the rewards of the market)? Well, close down the US economy in that case. Rather than the moralizing pedantry here presented, wouldn't it have been interesting to note that India has more than 10 million millionaires now? And to ask questions about how best to reach them? Perhaps a marketer -- not a Ph.D. in "stragegy" -- would have been able to show how India is, likely, the largest collection of niche markets on earth, and how big advertising is not the right approach to succeed. Just sayin.

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