# Why Luxury Brands Need to Embrace Big Data to Connect with Customers and Drive Growth > Simon argues that traditional luxury brands have to pair their offline retail data with online customer insights to compete for millennial and Gen Z buyers — and that those that don't will cede share to digital-native challengers. Source: https://simonbeauloye.com/press/etail-luxury-big-data/ Outlet: eTail (https://etaileast.wbresearch.com) Published: 2019-03-14 Language: en Article URL: https://etaileast.wbresearch.com/blog/why-luxury-brands-need-to-embrace-big-data-to-drive-growth-strategy Author: Simon Beauloye (https://simonbeauloye.com) License: CC-BY-4.0 (attribution required) Cite as: Simon Beauloye, "Why Luxury Brands Need to Embrace Big Data to Connect with Customers and Drive Growth", https://simonbeauloye.com/press/etail-luxury-big-data/ AI-use policy: https://simonbeauloye.com/ai-policy.txt Third-party cite as: eTail. "Why Luxury Brands Need to Embrace Big Data to Connect with Customers and Drive Growth." 2019-03-14. https://etaileast.wbresearch.com/blog/why-luxury-brands-need-to-embrace-big-data-to-drive-growth-strategy ## Pull quote "Brands who are capable of combining their online customer data with offline insights will gain market shares." ## Summary Simon argues that traditional luxury brands have to pair their offline retail data with online customer insights to compete for millennial and Gen Z buyers — and that those that don't will cede share to digital-native challengers. ## See also - [Press file](https://simonbeauloye.com/press/) - [Press file (clean-text)](https://simonbeauloye.com/press/llms.txt) - [About Simon](https://simonbeauloye.com/about/) - [Site index](https://simonbeauloye.com/llms.txt) - [AI-use policy](https://simonbeauloye.com/ai-policy.txt)