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Therefore, people buy a prestige product for themselves or as a gift to win esteem.

To increase growth and stem department store losses, manufacturers started selling more prestige products to duty-free outlets overseas at a discount.

French ads for prestige products rely heavily on what is known in the trade as "beauty shots," large photographs with just a few words of text.

The Startac was a fashion statement, and priced as a prestige product (about $2,000 a pop).

Prestige products?

"Hockey is still in the upper echelon of American sports; it is still a prestige product," Solomon said.

Gomez's complaints, and her recurring worry that Gillette does not know how to market a prestige product, the Waterman campaign has been a resounding success.

The Mercedes (formerly Cadillac) relationship: I want a prestige product that reliably delivers an expensive label that's unattainable to many.

But a key question is whether a lower-priced line will undermine the snob appeal that is an integral part of sales for prestige products like Waterford crystal.

Lavigne released her first fragrance, Black Star, created by Procter & Gamble Prestige Products.

Long-established prestige products; state-run competition suffering battered brand-image and dreadful industrial relations; therefore, floreat Etona, and the other 2,446 British independent schools.

"You have the fashion appeal of a convertible without the hassle," said Chuck Butte, president and chief executive of Prestige Products, a car-top supplier in Los Angeles.

Its American subsidiary, Cosmair, the fourth largest cosmetics company in the United States, makes Lancome, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani and other prestige products.

And he acknowledged that like Mr. Mondavi and his Italian friend Piero Antinori, he makes far more money on his cheaper wines than on his prestige products.

Samuel Twining, a director and the ninth generation of his family in the business, views the success of specialty teas as part of the worldwide drift by the affluent professional classes toward prestige products.

All of the copper pieces came to Lake Jackson by way of the Etowah site which shows that the two sites had a long running relationship, trading their specific local prestige products to each other.

To cash in on the consumer craze for high-priced crystal as gifts and collectibles, several manufacturers have moved into the upscale market or broadened their line of prestige products that sell for $500 and up.

Cosmetics companies maintain that prestige products merit their price because of several factors, including what goes into the bottle, the millions of dollars spent in research, the hand-holding at the cosmetics counter and esoteric things like "store experience."

For the past two decades Lambesis has applied a style-based approach to branding across prestige and mass prestige products ranging from fashion and spirits, to electronics and travel, to fitness and music, gaining the company international recognition.

On to the bargains: Gucci The Gucci outlet stocks an odd assortment of goods from the less-expensive department store collection made by the Italian accessories and apparel manufacturer, not the prestige products sold in the Fifth Avenue boutique.

The French company is the result of a June merger that brought together such prestige products as Moet et Chandon, Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot champagne, Hennessy cognac, Christian Dior perfumes and Louis Vuitton luggage.

Mass-Market Sales Studied "I think they're looking at mass-market sales as a real growth area, and I think they're counting on Mr. Phillips's success with prestige products to upgrade their products," said Annette Green, president of the Fragrance Foundation, a nonprofit industry group in New York.