Luxury Market Insights is a distinctive partnership between American Express Publishing and the Harrison Group that offers robust insight into the affluent U.S. consumer population. We specialize in research, consulting, analysis, and marketing capabilities created to understand and address an affluent audience. In addition to producing the Survey of Affluence and Wealth in America, we also offer the Ambassadors Network—opinion leaders who are customers of the brands of American Express Publishing—Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures and Executive Travel—who are eager to provide valuable input and feedback as you develop your products, services, and marketing strategies. Our expanding portfolio of information-based capabilities enables us to capture, analyze, and interpret consumer attitudes, preferences, and actual behavior, providing our clients with truly unique perspectives and actionable insights.

For more information on Luxury Market Insights, please contact Jackie Graziano at jacqueline.S.Graziano@aexp.com or 212-642-1915.

The annual Survey offers marketers in-depth insights into the lifestyles, attitudes, and household spending habits of affluent and wealthy American consumers at the top 10% of the American financial pyramid. Providing a multifaceted view of how the wealthy learn about and engage with brands, and make choices, the Study covers a wide variety of luxury categories, including Automobiles, Yachts, Fashion, Kitchen Appliances, and more. Our sponsors help us shape each wave of research to ensure we tackle the issues that matter most to our marketers.

The Ambassadors Network is a fast way to "pick the brains" of more than 27,000 affluent, loyal brand advisors at roughly 1/3 of the cost of a custom study. This panel of consumers delivers a powerful way to have a conversation with your best customers and prospects about your brand, your new product ideas, and advertising, as well as their attitudes and interests that motivate purchasing. The Network connects upscale customers of American Express Publishing magazines, books, and clubs (Travel + Leisure magazine, Travel + Leisure Elite Traveler, Food & Wine magazine, Food & Wine Connoisseur Club, etc.) to marketers.

Harrison Group is one of the country's leading marketing and strategic research consulting firms, specializing in concept testing, forecasting, segmentation, branding, and market modeling for some of Americas leading companies. This partnership between Harrison Group and American Express Publishing offers robust insight into the affluent U.S. consumer population.

The American Express Publishing Luxury Summit is the premier event dedicated to the luxury industry. More than 225 of the world's top luxury producers, marketers and retailers debate and discuss key marketplace trends. The Luxury Summit White Paper is a comprehensive research paper on the state of the luxury market and available to be sponsored by a select luxury advertiser.

Learn what motivates your best customers and how to reach others like them through the power of American Express database research. American Express Publishing is the only publishing company with direct access to the powerfully effective American Express Cardmember Database. This exclusive database of 20 million consumers worldwide is available only to advertisers and is not available for sale. Advertisers may reach potential consumers based on their actual buying activity. These consumers are high spenders in categories ranging from home furnishings and travel to apparel and entertainment.

This semiannual survey is a must-read for travel and luxury marketers. For the past five years, Travel +Leisure has conducted a series of consumer studies to provide in-depth perspectives on the publics changing attitudes toward travel. This comprehensive report sheds new light on how to reach and influence affluent travelers the most vital segment of the market and provides important insights into the future of the travel industry.

Family vacations are the fastest growing segment of the travel industry. Our latest trend report confirms that family travelers are more sophisticated than ever about their choices of destinations, accommodations, and activities. Discover more about this expanding segment of the marketplace with Travel + Leisure Familys in-depth proprietary studies.

The Food & Wine Reader Panel delivers a direct dialogue with readers, providing key insights on the tastes, attitudes, and ideas of the magazines sophisticated, affluent consumers. The panel includes 5,000 loyal, opt-in subscribers who are passionate about Food & Wine and enthusiastically give their opinions about the magazine and other topics, including limited, advertiser-specific questions.

Two thousand five hundred opt-in readers participate in a series of online research studies on luxury lifestyle topics such as travel, jewelry/watches, culture, home design/electronics, food and wine, finance, automotive, etc. Custom research studies for qualified advertisers provide research on an advertisers industry, company, and competitors with up to 20 closed-end questions.

American Express Publishing Custom Media creates content-driven programs that fulfill targeted marketing goals, including customer acquisition, loyalty, and retention. We offer the best of both worlds: as part of American Express Publishing, we are able to leverage magazine expertise to engage and inform our client's customers, both in print and online; as part of American Express, we understand database marketing. Our solutions are turnkey; we do everything from generating ideas through editorial, design, production, and fulfillment.

Our programs are proven to increase loyalty, drive sales, and deliver return on investment.

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