Her aim was simple: to bridge the gap between boutique hotels and traditional holiday cottages: "Before setting up Boutique Retreats and returning to my Cornish roots, I was a fully fledged City girl so I know how hard it is to persuade V C Londoners to venture further than the Cotswolds".
Every state, territory and shire takes a different approach to whether or not landholders can easily set up boutique tourism businesses on their land.
South Molton Street, across Brook Street from Claridge's, is a pedestrian block lined with trend-setting boutiques and coffee shops, among the latter Coffee Republic, where I headed on Monday morning.
After four years in the US navy, he went to Harvard Business School and joined Goldman Sachs before setting up a boutique Wall Street advisory firm specialising in media deals.
HAVING conquered Hollywood, Mr. Klein is now trying to move into another echelon: the one inhabited by Mr. Balazs and Ian Schrager, who is credited with setting off the boutique hotel craze in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Already, in beta testing, clients identified by TripleThread are five times more likely to purchase the specially curated items shipped to them in comparison to walk-in shoppers in a boutique setting.
J. C. Penney and Ms. Stewart's company say that because Penney's planned to set up boutiques within its department stores for the products, the exemption applies.
The Scholastic Corporation said yesterday that it would set up boutiques in 1,215 Toys R Us Inc.c. stores worldwide to sell Scholastic-branded crafts, games and toys.
Magazines like Girl and Allure have set up boutiques in Bloomingdale's, using their magazines' names as a marketing tool to promote clothing lines and products.
Mercedes-Benz has been requiring its dealers to set up boutiques in their dealerships since 1995 and its clothing business has grown to about $11 million annually, according to Roger Caramanoff, the company's manager of accessories and collections.
Most business schools expect their professors to get involved with some real-world consulting (although most also limit the amount of time they can spend on it to about 20%); the up-or-out principle adopted by most big consultancies generates a constant supply of middle-aged consultants ready to set up boutiques; and many senior executives like to do a spot of consulting after retiring.
