Today in luxury marketing:
Bentley sees steady luxury sales in 2014
Fabled British car maker Bentley Motors Wednesday said that the world's super-luxury auto market shrunk by 6 percent in 2013 and forecast that sales in the segment would remain steady at around 40,000 this year, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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