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Hermès links holiday to travel with Departures mobile effort - Luxury Daily

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Department store Bergdorf Goodman is presenting its consumers with gift ideas through a social initiative that highlights suggestions and tips from 25 different individuals in the fashion industry. Designers, actors, artists, photographers and others offer their gift suggestions to consumers through the Bergdorf Goodman social pages.

Registration is open for the third annual Luxury FirstLook: Strategy 2015 conference Tuesday, Jan. 13 featuring speakers from the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Buccellati, Baume & Mercier, Christie?s, Lancome, Douglas Elliman, Twitter, NetJets, Hunton Powerboats, SANDOW, Luxury Portfolio, Sleuth and The Luxury Institute. 

After months of negotiations, luxury lifestyle magazine Robb Report has been sold to a private equity firm for an undisclosed sum. 

French leather goods maker Hermès is targeting the affluent readers of Departures? mobile-optimized Web site with a holiday advertisement. 

Mandarin Oriental Boston is helping guests fly efficiently this holiday season by providing real-time flight updates within the hotel. 

Many businesses continue to treat mobile as just another channel, dooming them to failure because they are not taking advantage of the new revenue and service opportunities mobile provides, according to a new report from Forrester. 

Luxury Daily's live news from Dec. 17 - Fendi reconfigures handbag into turntable; Cavalli speaking exclusively to Clessidra; Bovet furthers link with Asprey through owner; Starwood incentivizes digital booking with free Internet access. 

Today in luxury marketing - LVMH books $3.5B gain on Hermès stock distribution; As ruble erodes, Russians buy out last remaining luxuries; La Perla to present Atelier collection during couture; Meet the new Hudson?s Bay CEO, Toys ?R? Us vet Gerry Storch. 

Luxury Daily is inviting opinion pieces on luxury advertising, marketing, media and retail issues that affect marketers as they run multichannel programs for branding as well as customer acquisition, retention and reactivation.