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Matt Taylor, co-founder and CEO of running apparel brand Tracksmith has found himself and his company a little slice of Boston’s running history. Taylor said marketing activities reflect his current scale as a small D2C brand. Taylor founded Tracksmith in 2014. So Tracksmith was born and now thrives as a D2C brand.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. While I am pleased with our progress in brand health and product quality, we have not achieved the operational excellence and accelerated profit growth that we know is possible at Gap brand,” Gap Inc.’s

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

I don’t see enough brands that are really breaking boundaries for plus-size fashion, that are actually designing for plus-size bodies, or for a diversity of shapes,” Kat Eves, a Los Angeles-based stylist who works exclusively with plus-size men and women, told The Wall Street Journal. But The Limited didn’t want it.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Amazon holds the dominant edge in the market for smart speakers, as about 70 percent of people in the U.S. Some will be going with other speaker brands — there was 31.7 percent will be using another brand, such as the Apple HomePod, Harmon Kardon Invoke or Sonos One. 9) by eMarketer. Last year, the figure was 72.9

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The banking group has started reaching out to possible bidders, but still hasn’t made a definitive decision as to whether it will actually sell the unit, which specializes in store-branded credit cards, according to a Bloomberg report. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group.

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JULY 6, 2016

From an economic standpoint , James’ departure, which he announced in a highly controversial one-hour primetime special broadcast on ESPN entitled “The Decision,” was immediately felt in Cleveland and to the value of James’ own brand. That said, minimal backlash to the KD brand. It will only help his brand.”.

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JULY 26, 2016

If you’re a retailer or a brand, it seems as though eCommerce and the rise of smartphones and mobile shopping have made your customers more cost-savvy and price-aware than ever before. Well, the rise of eCommerce and mobile shopping doesn’t have to mean doom and gloom for luxury brands or retailers. luxury consumer.

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JULY 18, 2016

This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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JULY 25, 2016

trillion spent in 2015, with 37 percent market share. That’s up from 32 percent in 2014 and in front of Visa and Mastercard. billion UnionPay branded cards, representing 41 percent of the card base around the world. The company is largely a domestic scheme and has little market share outside of China.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

trillion in market capitalization by 2024. An MKM analyst said in a research note to clients that AWS may be worth $1 trillion in six years – that would be larger than Amazon’s market cap, which currently stands at $929 billion. After (briefly) hitting $1 trillion in market cap on Sept. percent share in 2014 to the 6.4

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JUNE 25, 2020

But realistically, she sells adventure with every one of her aviator watches, which actually got their start back in 2014 when she appeared on Shark Tank. Any brand that isn’t using it is making a big mistake. From a marketing standpoint, it doesn’t make sense,” she said. Video is critical,” Mullin noted.

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JULY 22, 2016

No, the only way you can get your hands on these “exclusive” bad boys is if you follow Warby Parker on Snapchat , where the brand shared a Snapchat story with its followers containing a URL taking users to a page where they could purchase the super-limited edition frames, according to TechCrunch. This is a Snapchat exclusive, after all.)”.

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JULY 8, 2016

While the smartphone market is going down, Samsung appears to be one of the few companies still going up, and it appears to be largely thanks to the debut of its new Galaxy S7. That’s Samsung’s biggest quarterly increase since early 2014, when the smartphone market was still booming and products were flying off the shelf left and right.

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APRIL 10, 2020

. “With more Americans practicing social distancing and staying home with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to increase access to healthy meals and nutrition advice through our telehealth platform and partnership with Purple Carrot ,” said Lindsey Sacks, chief marketing officer of Fruit Street. per month.

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MAY 8, 2017

America’s biggest banks haven’t seen much change to their market share in the last decade, and UK banks have just been getting bigger. That grew to 70% and, excluding the impact of mergers and acquisitions, the four largest banks have lost less than 5% market share since 2005.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

According to a report by Reuters , APG Asset Management and Xander Group are co-investing $450 million in India’s real estate market, which will increase both companies investments there. Brands, including IKEA, H&M and Gap, are eyeing the market in part because of new rules that let stores stay open 24 hours a day.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

mattress-in-a-box company Casper has underscored the increasing power of social media influencers to propel or hinder brands. Launched in 2014, the company shot to immediate online fame when celebrity Kylie Jenner — with more than 150 million followers on her Instagram account — featured Casper photos, and positively reviewed the company.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Though Avon in some ways the great-grandfather of every direct-to-consumer brand out there today, when the company got its start in 1836 the original goal wasn’t even to sell cosmetics or beauty products at all. In 1929 the firm officially switched its name and branding to Avon — and the rest, as they say, is history.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for all Swiss watch brands combined. Since the first Apple smartwatch hit the market in 2014, it has become among the tech giant’s biggest products. The window for Swiss watch brands to make an impact in smartwatches is closing. All figures are a result of research by the market research firm Strategy Analytics.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail. 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. It’s Amazon. percent a year earlier, and a 42.5

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JANUARY 3, 2019

It became the first major retailer to accept cryptocurrencies for purchases beginning in 2014, and also founded Medici Ventures, its unit that is focused on applying blockchain technology to existing industries to get rid of the middlemen. “We

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APRIL 19, 2019

In fairness, because not everyone can buy a Birkin directly, its value tends to increase on the resale market, sometimes quite dramatically. 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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MARCH 11, 2019

Realizing the market has not yet come up with a good method to fix the problem, they decide to build their own solution and solve the problem for everyone. And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. The products were solid.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The startup offers software-as-a-service (SaaS) to let brands know how they are performing throughout eCommerce, according to reports. And, instead of going head to head with marketing insight firms IQVIA and Nielsen, it has inked revenue sharing-based strategic partnerships. million in seed funding.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

plans to go public and list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the “BMBL” ticker symbol, according to a Friday (Jan. has the potential to become a preeminent global women’s brand that will continue to support our communities on their relationship journeys on and off our platforms. Relationships app Bumble Inc.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Some of its brands include online takeout service Jumia Food, travel booking service Jumia Flights and classified services Jumia Deals. retailers online in markets across Africa, according to reports. Despite being home to Africa’s biggest mobile phone market, Nigeria is seeing a decline in banked adults in the country.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Boqii had a Series A fundraising round that finished in June 2013, followed by a series B round in 2014. The firm is said to be harnessing increasing affluence as more households take pets into their homes in the Chinese market. The eCommerce firm, which is based in Shanghai, is mulling offering shares in U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In addition to seeking excess discounts and canceling orders, the vendors have revealed delayed payment practices in Transformers' new report, "Ending Unethical Brand and Retailer Behavior: The Denim Supply Chain Speaks Up." In one instance, a brand required 60-day payment terms of a vendor, then filed for bankruptcy 14 days later.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

An endorsement from the Kardashian media empire is a big deal for any up-and-coming brand. However, for a brand like Afterpay, which launched in the U.S. The company had come a long way from its launch in 2014, when it had about 10 retailers signed on to offer Afterpay as a payment option during checkout.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Tmall has to incubate 100 additional brands with an annual business of one billion yuan each in order for the company to attain its aims. percent in New York per the report, notching what Bloomberg described as its largest rise in over a week as the markets remained “little changed.”. The company’s stock increased 1.2

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JANUARY 7, 2021

This additional financing from Atalaya solidifies Uplift's standing as the market leader in buy now, pay later for travel," Uplift CEO Brian Barth said in a Thursday (Jan. Uplift has raised about $695 million since it was founded in 2014 by Brian Barth and Stu Kelly. 7) press release.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Launched in 2012 by Payal Kadakia under the name Classtivity, ClassPass closed $2 million in seed funding in March 2014 after rebranding. The new funding will be used to scale its branded model worldwide. “Even in our recently launched European markets, our partners consistently call us their No.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

billion in 2014 – and marked an unusual move for Priceline which had previously kepts its investing purview limited to travel related brands. On the whole, the market liked what it saw – Priceline shares rose 4.4% Priceline gobbled up OpenTable for a $2.6 to a record $1,545 in recent after-hours trading.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Google was the only brand in the top five smart speaker space to see sales drop in Q3 2019. . percent of the smart speaker market with 10.4 percent of the market. Xaomi was fifth, with 12 percent of the market share, the report showed. Amazon is the sales leader capturing 36.6 million in Echo sales and 65.9

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

. “The plus-size woman is not a dowdy, insecure person,” said Lane Bryant’s CMO Brian Beitler , a former SVP at David’s Bridal who joined the company in October 2014. She’s loud and proud. These women feel beautiful. They’re confident, and they want their fashion to convey that.”.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Starting with the release of Apple Pay in 2014, there was a veritable rush of proprietary mobile wallets sent to market, a host of “. We [consumers] are looking at brands differently. Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing. Pays” for consumers to choose from. We're looking at gifts differently.

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