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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. The interesting question for the next decade is how, as the gig economy grows, it will continue to compete with and innovate against the world of wage work — and perhaps change it in the process. Some lasted; some did not.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Brett took over just over a year ago, and the retailer’s “404 stores have cleared out inventory left over from his predecessor, in time for Brett to give the brand a makeover,” the report said. The company went private in 2011 and has about $1.7 billion worth of debt.

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JULY 2, 2019

It is perhaps unsurprising in the era of food innovation that so many startups have gone after the holy grail of proper pizza creation. Pizza is a crowded innovators’ party to hang out at, as it turns out, and standing out in the crowd is not easy. The brand was founded on the theory that it could be the Chipotle of pizza.

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JULY 11, 2016

Well, we’re talking about creative and innovative packing as the next big thing in retail. In 2011, Smirnoff debuted a “peelable” bottle it named Caipiroska as a way to associate fruit with its flavored vodka offerings and emphasize that the product was made with “natural materials.” Are we not all better for that innovation?

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JANUARY 28, 2019

The specific issue that I’m referring to is merchant surcharging – a fancy term to describe the fee charged by merchants when consumers use network-branded card products to pay for their purchases. Innovation by Any Other Name. It wasn’t until 2011, when a complaint was filed with the U.K. The Ban on the Ban. is nothing new.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Since then, Peltz has continued to push P&G to re-evaluate its R&D strategy, bring in more external talent, and focus on innovation. Short-term challenges.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

“Innovation plays a key role in driving inclusion in the market, and access to convenient solutions such as payroll cards will give more communities access to the formal financial sector.” ” Doha Bank and Mastercard have worked together in the past, launching a co-branded credit card in 2011.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Data assembled by ShopperTrak and published by The Wall Street Journal in January of 2014 only quantified the steepness of that decline — starting as early as 2011. For retail stores, it pushes the store brand to the back, the fulfillment part of a shopping experience where ordering by voice saves them time.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Bloomberg reports that it offers a bevy of innovative options intended to entice customers into spending more time shopping. Meanwhile, as traditional mall merchants go under, online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar, the New York Post reported. The seven-floor store is Nordstrom ’s biggest location ever.

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MARCH 8, 2019

When the world first encountered the brand in 2011, Dollar Shave Club didn’t have much more than an innovative idea for selling razors and a viral video about the concept. On top of razors, toothpaste and cologne, the brand will now offer deodorant sticks and wipes. Same quality, but 90 percent less expensive. “We

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MAY 18, 2016

Despite being placed front and center on jerseys, those are actually the brand names (or slogan, in Emirates’ case) that sponsor teams whose actual names are Arsenal FC , Chelsea FC and Manchester United , respectively, all members of the English Premier League. There’s one that clearly says “Chevrolet,” so that’s obviously the team’s name.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Also a factor in both countries, casual restaurants have been on the rise for 15 years, with innovation and food delivery propelling it forward. an additional challenge is that most of its casual dining outlets are global (read: American) brands. GDP growth rate is at its lowest since 2011. In the U.K., percent, the U.S.’

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Once widely considered an eCommerce-proof vertical because of consumers’ basic insistence on seeing and handling fresh produce, that conventional wisdom has dissolved through a steady drumbeat of innovations by several smaller online grocery players and some massive investments from major players like Amazon, Walmart and Kroger. .

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a veritable legion of DTC brands and startup shops have sprung up in the last several years to fill the holes in the market – and even reshape it. Victoria’s Secret has seen its sales stall , as the brand has been accused of being out of step with the tastes of contemporary consumers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2011, Tripathy saw that the future of customer support was on mobile. Brands in a rapidly growing mobile world needed real-time, intuitive tools in order to solve user problems in-app, in real time,” he said. “My To date, Helpshift has raised more than $38.2 million from its investors.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Since its founding in 2011, Stitch Fix has had a difficult challenge: how to ship customers clothing that matches both their size and taste preferences once a month, without the client ever having to be present for a measurement or inventory check. The simple answer, is data (of course) but in Stitch Fix’s case there is a lot of data in play.

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MAY 31, 2017

But in 2011, two Brown University seniors, Walker Williams and Evan Stites-Clayton, discovered how hard bringing T-shirts to market was when they tried to create a website to sell T-shirts commemorating the closing of their favorite Providence bar. We wanted to prove that we could be great at apparel.

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MAY 5, 2016

Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. The retailer to earn the dubious distinction of first to bow out in 2016 was teen fashion brand — and staple store front of the American mall’s heyday — Wet Seal, which filed the appropriate documents on Jan. January — Wet Seal. May — Aéropostale.

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APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

has strongly hinted that the agency she birthed in 2008 and opened for business in 2011 — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — should be given the authority to do even more. The credit score itself, the FICO score, was an innovation brought to market in 1989 by the Fair Isaac Corporation. Kinda makes you wonder why.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

The meal kit business has evolved a bit since Blue Apron and some of its initial rivals got started during the 2011-2012 period. HelloFresh , which launched in November 2011, acquired Green Chef in March of this year, making it the largest firm in the meal kit business, surpassing Blue Apron. Holding Out.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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JULY 7, 2016

The company, which Deloitte said was the fastest-growing tech startup in the world from 2011 to 2015, expects a bump in its British business as a result of the historic vote to compel the U.K. We have a really strong brand name for them to other countries in the EU where bids are made in euros. Sellers in the U.K.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

For years, banks have enjoyed a low bar on CFO expectations around payment product sophistication and innovation. Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. Banks cannot rely on brand reputation, price or even relationships to differentiate themselves anymore.

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JUNE 27, 2017

When Birchbox began offering men’s subscriptions in 2011, it was an idea small enough to almost be considered a throw-away. was a limited collection of products on offer as a special during the 2011 holiday shopping season. Birchbox Man version 1.0

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MARCH 6, 2019

StyleSeat Founder Melody McCloskey knew she had a good idea when she launched StyleSeat in 2011, because the concept seemed so intuitive. They didn’t get the all-female customer side of the platform or the hairstylist side of the platform. Everything McCloskey explained mostly fell on confused ears. .”

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

That concept was at the heart of Rocksbox, a subscription service that gives customers a window to test-drive their accessories, when it was founded in 2011. Sephora changed shopping for makeup with a simple innovation: providing lots of options and giving the consumer the option to “play with” the product.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Sagar won Academy Awards in 2010 and 2011 in the field of scientific engineering for his accomplishments with facial motion technology. Branding the Nadia avatar as a “trainee” helps the agency convey to users that the program is still learning how to interact in an emotionally intelligent manner.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

So the problem we’re solving for big consumer brands who go direct to consumer is helping them use their data to enhance the brand and the relationship.”. “But advertising can be a pretty blunt instrument — which isn’t a great consumer experience.

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JUNE 2, 2016

But perhaps the signature innovation of the 8,000 square foot space is the “Pixel Wall” of digital screens that are independently moveable and easily reworked into customer arrangements for wide assortments of merchandise. WithMe’s story has been one of evolution since its founding as OrderWithMe in 2011 in Hangzhou, China.

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MARCH 2, 2016

A Macy’s spokesperson told CNNMoney that a new coupon and discount policy will be at the forefront of the retailer’s big push toward massively discounted goods, highlighted by its growing Backstage brand. Johnson came to the retailer in 2011 and immediately did away with its Macy’s-esque fragmented discount program.

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CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2019

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JUNE 3, 2016

We don’t want to see them negatively impacted by a fraud risk,” said Dax Dasilva, CEO of Lightspeed , a company providing cloud-based systems that integrate in-store and online sales into one omnichannel solution while helping companies embrace EMV and other payment innovations. And it all started with Apple, he said. “I

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JULY 4, 2016

They had a very innovative idea, but I don’t think their dreams of getting the funding supplies for those loans played out.”. That was the insight from LevelUp Chief Ninja Seth Priebatsch, someone who has been beavering away at building a mobile payments network since 2011. The lack of stable funding is ultimately what was created.

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JULY 10, 2017

In 2011, Visa invested in Square and in 2015, Stripe. They really represent, when we think about our own API capabilities, and focus on new token use cases … both a brand and a relationship, and also a platform where several different use case scenarios can be leveraged,” Gajda said. Expansion regionally has been a focus, with the U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. or Idea Killers? More talk about fintech, dinosaur bankers, and flavors of the month. Was I, gulp, a futurist?

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JULY 14, 2018

The humanization of pets has played well for brands and retailers that have developed or pivoted their strategies for consumers looking to treat their furry friends to the best that life has to offer,” Nielsen noted in its paper on pet care trends earlier this year. In some cases, they’re even getting there first.”.

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