A long Financial Times profile of Rimowa luggage, the brand that started me thinking about the Quality Brand Mittelstand. It's now owned by Bernard Arnault, the #1 alpha-dog brand investor on earth (more so than even you-know-who): https://www.ft.com/content/3583dbf6-e0d7-11e7-a0d4-0944c5f49e46 …
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Thanks. The best-known books on the classic Mittelstand phenomenon (i.e. companies with huge market shares in niche industries) are "Hidden Champions" and its sequel "Hidden Champions of the 21st Century" by Hermann Simon:https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Champions-Lessons-Worlds-Companies/dp/0875846521/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517740713&sr=8-2&keywords=hidden+champions …
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I'm not sure there are any books on the "Quality Brand Mittelstand" phenomenon, which is kind of the inverse of the classic Mittelstand (ie a company with a small, yet profitable share of a huge, well-known industry). I think books on the luxury goods industry come closest.
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I haven't read this book yet, but it looks intriguing as an alternate take on luxury brands: https://www.amazon.com/Luxury-Lies-Marketing-Shattering-Illusions-ebook/dp/B00HP4KDRY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517743043&sr=8-1&keywords=luxury+lies+marketing …
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