Marketing
February 6, 2017
Image courtesy of Dolce & Gabbana
By Jen King
The luxury sector has an average Brand Intimacy Quotient of 15.3, a figure considerably lower than the median of 28.7 seen for other United States industries ranked by MBLM’s annual Brand Intimacy Report and Rankings.
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