Upscale

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Upscale

Describing a high quality good, product, service or property. For example, an upscale neighborhood is assumed to contain nice, desirable homes, and an upscale clothing store may sell designer fashions. Upscale products are usually expensive.

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Upscale Latinos are much more likely to view social sites as a way to tell people about products they like, and more likely to post ratings and reviews for others to read.

Purchasing power continues to swell

The category is showing promise: Retail is skewing upscale and brand Heineken sales are up 5.1 percent through March, according to Schaumberg, Ill.-based Nielsen.

Turning Point

Jon Underhill of Jon Underhill Real Estate said there is a larger inventory of upscale homes on the market currently than in years past.

Sales of upscale housing fall, reflecting greater trend

And "it's too soon to write off the upscale strategy," Ulysses Yannas, an analyst with Buckman Buckman & Reid, told HFN.

Is Fleming the right choice for Wal-Mart?

"All of the area on that east side is proposed for higher density, upscale residential uses with some commercial accessory support," says Laing.

Oil tanks to upscale: waterfront plan in works

Van Buren, Chicago, 312-427-9290): Slightly upscale at night, offering a beer garden and lounge.

The Black Enterprise African American travel guide presented by Allstate

The ability of upscale multifamily units to deliver value in order to maintain that edge is the only thing protecting the industry from a 15 percent to 20 percent vacancy rate.

Inside the apartment market

The majority of the rooms under contract are in the upper upscale segment, with 53,794 rooms (36.4 per cent).

147,754 hotel rooms under contract in the region: report

Three other segments each accounted for more than 10 percent of rooms Under Contract: the Upscale segment (19.0 percent with 26,117 rooms); the Luxury segment (18.2 percent with 25,044 rooms); and the Unaffiliated segment (14.0 percent with 19,327 rooms), it said.

589 hotels 'under contract' in ME/Africa

While all segments are important, the clearest path to category growth is with upscale. Last year marked significant growth in the beer category (2% in volume and 5.3% in value) and the upscale beer segment was the driver of that growth.

A guide to winning with upscale: for retailers, the key to successfully navigating the beer category and growing their bottom line lies in optimizing shelves and merchandising

Greenwood Hospitality Group, a US-based company engaged in acquisition, repositioning, and management of upscale, full-service and select-service hotels, has announced plans to transform a Ritz-Carlton hotel, in Michigan, US, into a new identity, The Henry.

Greenwood Hospitality Group to Transform Ritz-Carlton Hotel to The Henry

More grand openings are already on the calendar for early next year, including CanDo Fitness, the northeast's most upscale health club, scheduled to open in February 2007, and its adjunct, Koi Spa.