PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

After turning Taco Bell into a lifestyle brand and introducing breakfast at the quick service restaurant (QSR), CEO Brian Niccol is heading to Chipotle Mexican Grill. Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. He brought mobile ordering and payments to Taco Bell’s 7,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The filing said that Merage will possibly engage in discussions with the board of directors, as well as discuss capitalization, ownership structure and board compensation or operations — and could potentially buy more shares. The company went public in 2011, and started trading at $28, but it has not seen that kind of price since.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

How do you think it will change the way financial services organizations operate? MM: Favorite brands? Also, Prince (yes, I consider it a brand!), Bo near White Mountain Peak in Bishop, California, 2011. MM: Let’s go back to crypto. What does the future hold for cryptocurrency? Rapid-Fire Questions. MM: Favorite book?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Sears hasn’t had a profit since 2011, and Lampert has faced criticism that he let the physical stores deteriorate. Sears, over the years, has sold the Craftsman brand and is mulling an offer for the Kenmore appliance brand , noted Reuters. Under the bankruptcy plan , Lampert will be replaced with a three-person committee. “The

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:FS CEO David Brear talks to him about why ‘Monzonauts’ are so crazy devoted to the brand. [You And then, GoCardless in 2011, we founded it, myself and my two co-founders, Matt and Hiroki, and I was there for almost three years, and that was my first experience with FinTech. I think the word FinTech wasn’t yet around.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As Sears faces calls to wind down its operations, the retailer is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a deal for $350 million in financing with Great American Capital Partners, along with other lenders. Sears hasn’t had a profit since 2011, and Lampert has faced criticism that he let the retailer’s brick-and-mortar stores deteriorate.

Retail 123

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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. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Beardbrand Founder Eric Bandholz is, perhaps unsurprisingly given his brands’ name, in the former camp. Those efforts started as a content operation with a YouTube channel dedicated to beard grooming and growing tips. We are inspired to build a brand, vision and mission that is bigger than the products themselves.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

In 2011, Newegg launched a marketplace model where other sellers accessed its eCommerce platform. And while it may be tempting for brands to recapture margin by selling direct, owning customer engagement from start to finish is easier said than done.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The Row’s most beloved item of 2011, for example, was an alligator handbag that promptly sold out – even though its retail price was $39,000. Toward the end of last year, Elizabeth and James announced it would be shutting down its stores and in-house operations – another middle-market victim of the great retail reset.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

There are no immediate plans to change the brand’s name, he said. “For the time being, we will retain the FastFox brand,” Agarwala said, adding that FastFox’s 120 staff members would become part of Elara.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

Go-Jek started its Thailand operations with food delivery and motorcycle rides with the Get brand, which put pressure on Singapore-based Grab. Go-Jek, which rolled out in 2011, has grown from ridesharing to letting customers order a range of products from food to massage and groceries as well as make online payments.

Lending 100

Lending Online Financial Technology Report 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

percent in 2011 following the 2008 financial crisis. Online Brands. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. But operators of some of those shopping destinations continue to wield investment power as malls undergo remakes for the 21st century.

San Francisco 131

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It offered high-end, private-label clothes as well as national men’s clothing brands in regular shipments for people who signed up. The department store chain relied on Bombfell to handle the logistics of the operation. . The company wants to focus more on profitable apparel sales, and also move away from appliances.

New York 109

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon Lending traces its roots back to 2011, and the company had $863 million in SMB loans, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the Apple effort, the Amazon lending partnership would be co-branded. The Challenge. In a way, traditional retail naturally represents a catch-22 of sorts.

Lending 146

Lending Apple Study Online 146

PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Economists predicted 2017 could be one of the best holiday seasons since 2011, largely because of low unemployment rates and rising wages. Same-store sales for locations that had been in operation for at least a year saw a 3.4 dolls, electronics, Nintendo Switch and Apple goods. percent increase during the final two months of 2017.

Online 109

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

Merchants pay payment processing fees and banks pay for permission to issue cards stamped with providers’ brands, but the network over which payments are ultimately sent lies with individual merchants. This then prompted the Federal Reserve to decide in 2011 to restrict interchange fees on PIN debit cards to no more than $0.21

Cards 141

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

First Billing was founded in 2011, operating until the December 2018 transaction with Paya as the billing services affiliate of The Connor Group , a real estate investment firm. First Billing will continue to operate under its existing brand, the companies said on Tuesday. million, as reported in the Dayton Daily News.

Software 158

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

But what is becoming increasingly mainstream today was almost bleeding-edge in 2011 when Good Eggs went into business with a digital grocery delivery business premised on bringing the farmers market experience online and on demand. You can’t be everything to everyone.

Los Angeles 131

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

In both countries, third-party food delivery services reduce the amount of space a restaurant needs to run and increase operating efficiency, but slash customer contact and service, which can hurt (or at the very least, not help) a brand’s image. GDP growth rate is at its lowest since 2011. In the U.K., percent, the U.S.’

Chicago 100

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The fate of the malls of America has been a favored topic of discussion in recent years, particularly as the fortunes of malls and their operators have come to look increasingly tenuous. And the smaller “mall brands” that exist alongside them in America’s various shopping enclosures have seen their bottom lines eaten alive.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. Closing in on its 10th anniversary, Fiverr recently announced that over $1 billion has been earned by its global community of gig workers in the decade the company has been in operation. Some lasted; some did not.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Like its $310 million purchase of Bonobos, buying Blue Apron would repeat Walmart’s playbook of acquiring a branded eCommerce startup with a more premium product to its core offerings,” said Matthew Trusz, equity research analyst of Gabelli & Company, to investors. Walmart’s Jet.com operation, meanwhile, keeps growing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. OrderUp does, however, continue to operate in 11 markets, which license the platform’s technology and mobile app, though they may not be doing business under its name.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Fueling much of this activity are the liberal return policies of Amazon and other eCommerce operators, polices shaped by fierce competition. Last year, for instance, B2B marketplace operator B-Stock , as reported in a PYMNTS interview with its CEO, Howard Rosenberg, raised $65 million from Spectrum Equity. Investor Attention.

Online 128

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PYMNTS

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. India, the U.K.

Apple 101

Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

“In the war for the coveted consumer dollar, brands need a deeper understanding of the intent, interests and motivations of consumers who shop online. Founded in 2011, Captify, like many of the firms we profile, was created to solve a problem — Google was destroying the traditional advertising industry.

Google 100

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The filing will let it continue operating while it attempts to reorganize the business and return to profitability. percent of units were empty in the third quarter, “equaling a post-financial crisis high reached in 2011,” according to reports. Some of the brands that have signed on include Saks Off Fifth, Aeropostale, G.H.

Retail 109

Retail United States San Francisco Boston 109

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. The company made history in 2011 when it launched what is still the country’s most successful in-store mobile wallet.

Innovation 223

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yes, I know that for many of you, especially in California, this is old news and standard operating procedure – but hear me out. 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.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 27, 2015

Nearly four years ago, I tested the higher interest on deposits claim in a guest post with the exact title on The Financial Brand , an industry publication geared towards marketing executives at banks and credit unions. In 2011, banks paid higher interest on their interest bearing deposits than credit unions throughout the measurement period.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In fact, they have favored brands, with iTunes and Google Play cards popular favorites. The official white flag comes after years of attempted restructuring of the once iconic brand. Last year Sears sold off its Craftsman brand line of tools and is mulling an offer for the Kenmore appliance brand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Analysts are nodding with you because the company’s been around since 2011 and had only raised around $14 million to date. Metromile is ready to rev up, having acquired licenses to operate in all of Uncle Sam’s 50 states, despite currently underwriting policies in only four right now: New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Pennsylvania 100

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

As Sears winds down operations at those stores, the retailer is planning to have liquidation sales at 33 Sears-branded stores and 13 stores under the Kmart banner starting next week. As of May, the retailer has reported sales declines dating back to the third quarter of 2011.

Retail 100

Retail Colorado Branding California 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

After its launch in 2011, HiGear, a San Francisco, Calif.–based Nonetheless, for businesses old and new, reaching that critical mass has also meant digitizing their operations, making machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) their new-age fraud fighting tool. Then suddenly, it hit a wall. he explained. “The

Fraud 121

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PYMNTS

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.

Retail 101

Retail Company Strategy Branding 101

PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

HBO’s sprawling epic fantasy series started out with a relatively small audience when it premiered in April of 2011 — about 2.2. That “Game of Thrones” has spawned in its wake a host of retail concepts and products in unsurprising — where there is success, there is merchandise, and there is no shortage of GoT branded items out there.

Chicago 135

Chicago Philadelphia Retail Branding 135