Coach Inc. (NYSE: COH) is a leading retailer of premium handbags and accessories, located primarily in North America and has recently expanded into Asian markets. Basing its image on "affordable luxury," Coach seeks to establish a premium brand that caters to affluent consumers but also provides lower-priced goods to appeal to the demand of middle-class customers.

Due to its effective merchandising and brand-building, Coach has boasted high operating margins and increasing popularity within the U.S. and Japan for years, even in the suffering American economy. COH also intends to take advantage of increasing luxury consumption in China by taking more control of its retail operations there and building its own stores instead of relying on third-party retailers. As COH continues to develop its ultra-luxury collections, it will share in the recent increase in spending in luxury good markets as the affluent release pent-up spending power from the last year. ^[1]

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