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The luxury industry has undertaken some truly transformational changes over the past 20 years. Most luxury brands are now owned by big players like LVMH, being a part of their portfolio, always with a side-eye in their branding strategies to not cannibalize other brands of the company. Expansions are a popular tool to enter new markets and take new challenges. The increasing number of middle class consumers with high purchasing power triggered a shift in the industry: From many, traditional, mainly family-owned luxury brands, catering to the wealthiest individuals, to becoming global players trying to cater to as many consumers as possible. Therefore, price-entry products, like perfumes, became a common expansion strategy among luxury brands. This has led not only to significantly increased diversification and democratization of the luxury industry, but simultaneously also to many challenges on the part of luxury brands who, in order to succeed in their brand extensions, needed to quickly identify the most suitable strategies for expansion. And it is at this crossroad, we ask a pertinent question: What makes a luxury company consistently successful? How did one man succeed where most other brands have not come close to his success till now? That man is Giorgio Armani, who is still the main decision maker in every aspect within his empire and controls 100% of Giorgio Armani SpA. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research based on a survey and focused groups, and their analysis, this paper will provide detailed findings for future entrepreneurs, business leaders and academics showing an example of how to take the challenge of expanding the core of a brand and dare to create brand extensions.

et al. ; We present the final combination of CDF and D0 measurements of cross sections for single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data correspond to total integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb−1 per experiment. The t-channel cross section is measured to be σt=2.25+0.29−0.31 pb. We also present the combinations of the two-dimensional measurements of the s- vs t-channel cross section. In addition, we give the combination of the s+t channel cross section measurement resulting in σs+t=3.30+0.52−0.40 pb, without assuming the standard model value for the ratio σs/σt. The resulting value of the magnitude of the top-to-bottom quark coupling is |Vtb|=1.02+0.06−0.05, corresponding to |Vtb|>0.92 at the 95% C.L. ; We acknowledge support from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation (U.S.A.), the Australian Research Council (Australia), the National Council for the Development of Science and Technology and the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for the Support of Research in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the China Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Science Council of the Republic of China (China), the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Colombia), the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), the Academy of Finland, the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission and the National Center for Scientific Research/National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (France), the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (Germany), the Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology (India), the Science Foundation Ireland (Ireland), the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Italy), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), the Korean World Class University Program and the National Research Foundation of Korea (Korea), the National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Netherlands), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" of the Russian Federation, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Russia), the Slovak R&D Agency (Slovakia), the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Program (Spain), the Swedish Research Council (Sweden), the Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland), the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Ukraine), the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the The Royal Society (United Kingdom), the A. P. Sloan Foundation (U.S.A.), and the European Union community Marie Curie Fellowship Contract No. 302103. ; Peer Reviewed

16 p. ; Thomason E.1021[2]. ; Annotation on Thomason copy: "April. 12". ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

[2], 33, [1] p. : ill. (metalcut) ; By John Vicars. ; Title page is A2v; A1r is blank. ; Some print show-through. ; Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Signed at end: John Vicars. ; Thomason received his copy in November 1647. ; Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nou: 21 1647"; "1647". ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library. ; The preface or preamble to the Covenant -- The Covenant -- Scripture commands and encouragement to covenant-makers and keepers -- Scripture terrours and threatenings, to covenant-breakers and despisers -- The names of all the knights and burgesses in the House of Commons, in Parliament, that, at first, took the Covenant -- Two most remarkable and visible examples of Gods wrath against covenant breakers and despisers; the one divine, the other humane; both observable.

[6], 136, (133)-(136), 137-304, [16] p. ; Part 3 of: Vicars, John. God in the Mount. ; Thomason received his copy December 17, 1645; Wing has 1646; McAlpin Catalogue lists under 1646. ; The interpolated pages (133)-(136) are signed with a long s. ; With an index. ; The final leaf is blank. ; Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb: 17th 1645"; the second 6 in imprint date crossed out. ; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

8 p. ; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. ; Caption title. ; Signed: John Vicars.

[8], 110 p. ; Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. ; Included are declarations of the House of Commons and other documents concerning the role of Parliament. ; Some editions appear as part of his Jehovah-Jireh.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; In verse. ; Signed at end: John Vicars. ; Verse: "Come hither, each true Christian heart and see;". ; Reproduction of original in the British Library.

[2], 5 p. ; In verse. ; Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.