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Report: Luxury market recovery seen slow

6/9/2009 3:38:21 PM

New York/Paris--At a time when just being able to afford the rent seems like a luxury, purveyors of high-end jewels, fashion and handbags are facing challenges like never before, according to a report from Reuters.

Sales of luxury goods, which are expected to drop 10 percent this year, will not recover fully until 2012, according to a new report by Bain and Co., as austerity and understatement remain the "must-have" items of the rich and fabulous.

Against that backdrop, chief executives from Burberry Group, Hermes, Tiffany and Co., Rolls-Royce and Richemont's Van Cleef and Arpels, are gathering this week at Reuters' first-ever Global Luxury Summit to share their recipes for success in hard times.

So far these recipes include managing costs carefully and planning conservatively. But beyond just navigating the storm, one question on everybody's lips is: Will the glory days ever return?

Bain partner Claudia D'Arpizio said she does not expect annual luxury goods sales to recover to the level of 2007--before the U.S. recession set in--until 2012.

"Consumers 'shop their closets,'" D'Arpizio said in her report, "reusing purchases from past years." But when they do shop, she said consumers are investing in "evergreen" items rather than trendy fashion pieces.

"Austerity is fashionable, even for the wealthiest consumers," D'Arpizio said.

After falling 10 percent in 2009, D'Arpizio said she expects luxury sales to rise 1 percent in 2010, 4 percent in 2011 and 7.5 percent in 2012.

While everyone is under pressure, leather goods and popular fashion houses are remaining the most resilient. The worst declines have been seen in watches, followed by jewelry.

Late last month Tiffany posted a worse-than-expected 62 percent drop in quarterly earnings. The upscale retailer said sales trends had improved slightly in May, but not enough for it to raise its full-year outlook as the rough economy persists.

Longer-term, D'Arpizio and other luxury optimists believe sales will return as the global economy improves and luxury goods companies have yet to fully penetrate many markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

"I think the luxury industry will be back," Scilla Huang Sun, who runs a $30 million luxury fund at Julius Baer, told Reuters.

They say the crisis has not affected the long-term growth prospects and attractive business model, based on relatively fat margins.

Louis Vuitton bags, which have proven relatively resilient to the consumer downturn, are estimated to generate gross margins of about 45 percent--a figure LVMH routinely refuses to confirm officially.

Market valuations for European luxury goods companies, which stood at around 12-16 times earnings in 2007, have been languishing at between eight and 11 times this year's targets for several months now.

"Valuations do not look expensive," Huang Sun told Reuters.

Michael Niemira, chief economist for the International Council of Shopping Centers, said the recent rally in the U.S. stock market might bode well for luxury spending, which he sees taking a turn later this summer.

"That will be extremely important for the sustainability of any kind of consumer recovery," Niemira told Reuters.

Stocks of U.S. luxury goods and apparel makers, as measured by the Standard and Poor's Apparel, Accessories and Luxury Goods Index, have gained 86 percent amid the wider stock market rally that started in early March. But they are still down 98 percent from 2007's highs.

Not just the high end that's hurt

The recession, falling home values and dwindling stock portfolios impacted the psyches of consumers up and down the price spectrum.

Department stores, at the high and low end, have faced particular trouble luring shoppers, since most of what they sell are items that thrifty consumers can do without.

The chief executives of department store operators Saks Inc. and J.C. Penney Co. will discuss their strategies during the later part of the week at the Reuters Global Retail Summit, along with executives from the companies that supply them, such as VF Corp., Liz Claiborne Inc. and Jones Apparel Group Inc.

While recession-weary consumers have avoided stores, they have often gone online to search for discounts. The sector has not had the huge declines seen in the broader brick-and-mortar retail industry, and major players like online giant eBay Inc. are counting on shoppers' love of deals to spur growth.

EBay is pinning hopes of reviving its marketplaces unit on the secondary market, which sells liquidated goods a season out of date. The company has been signing up retailers anxious for another market for their goods and believes this market will differentiate it from main rival Amazon.com Inc.

At the same time, luxury retailers have been making e-commerce a priority and adding social media elements on their sites to foster a better sense of community.

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