Peter York Quotes

Making the leap from the best sunglasses company in the world to a world-class brand is a natural transition.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

In the direct-to-consumer channel, we continue to look at the entire world as an extension opportunity for all of our brands.

We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.

It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!

The Free People brand plans to drive growth on three different fronts: product expansion, geographic expansion and improved marketing.

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

I'm confident UTC could outperform in all of our markets, starting with our commercial businesses. The largest opportunities for our commercial businesses are in emerging markets, and we're very well positioned there.

As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.

Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing.

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.

We significantly increased our global presence in 2014. During the year, we expanded the number of languages in which we serve customers to a total of 20.

Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.

We are not selling the black cab in large enough volumes. We want to expand globally.

Looking beyond the emerging markets, it is important not to lose sight of the growth opportunities that exist in the developed regions.

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.

The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.

I don't feel necessarily it's winner-take-all across the globe, where there has to be one local guide for the entire world. We'll certainly do as many of these markets as we can.

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it has to be tested, redefined, managed, and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear.

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.

There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

I hope to buy brands and businesses globally.