Téma: Russia

Luciano Benetton will inaugurate a series of new stores in Russia, Mongolia and Azerbaijan, a number of them in partnership with eminent architecture studios: a commercial grand tour that demonstrates the Benetton Group's drive to invest in the future, underpinning its development with optimism, and moving apace with this changing, growing world.

Canadian firm chosen from among five international and Russian competitors. Mariinsky's General Director Valery Gergiev hails Diamond's 'superb work' on Four Seasons Centre in Toronto, home of the Canadian Opera Company. Construction to begin immediately on Russia's first new opera house since the Czars.

With the ranks of millionaires and billionaires skyrocketing across major emerging markets, luxury goods companies are pursuing aggressive strategies to capture consumers who are seeking to display their newly minted wealth like badges of honor.

Prestige Jet, the new, fast-growing, private aviation company operating out of Abu Dhabi International Airport, projects that up to 25% of its business could come from the Russian market by the end of 2008.