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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Capital One has announced the launch of Business CreditWise , an online tool that enables U.S. Business CreditWise is available to any business in the United States — not just Capital One customers. businesses to check their credit profiles.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Sales of luxury goods in China are skyrocketing — up around 20 percent from 2016 — in its sharpest growth since 2011, as Chinese millennials seek products like handbags and cosmetics, Reuters reported. billion) in 2016 in a 20 percent increase from the prior year, Bain & Co said in a report on Wednesday.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

13) they had been fully repaid on a loan issued in 2016, the sources said. District Court in New York accused Revlon of moving valuable brand assets beyond the reach of lenders in order to use them as collateral for other creditors. Lenders who sued Revlon were surprised to learn Thursday (Aug. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Walmart is positioning its new line, called Free Assembly, as “a modern fashion brand with elevated style,” featuring casual looks with layered approaches that will make it marketable during any season. Denise Incandela , who was once SVP Women’s Group, has now added “elevated and online brands” to her title. The Monday (Sept.

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JULY 26, 2016

The deal is expected to be done by the end of 2016 or by early 2017. This caps of a sometimes uneasy partnership – Donna Karan has publicly complained about LVMH’s stewardship of her brand since she retired officially last year. LVMH shares rose about 1 percent on the deal’s announcement.

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MAY 28, 2018

Both retailers are owned by private equity firm Golden Gate Capital, which has not decided whether to merge the two companies and has declined to comment. We believe in the future of the company, as reflected by our significant injection of new capital into the business.”.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Gresham House and Force Over Mass Capital led the round to bring Moteefe’s total financing to $12.5 Launched in early 2016, Moteefe began in 2016 and provides an entrepreneurial technology solution for influencers and others in the digital space.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The times they are a changin’ — as the People’s Bank of China has ordered local banks to stop issuing co-branded (bearing both the logo of UnionPay and a foreign card network), dual currency payment cards in mainland China, according to reports emerging this morning. As of 2016, UnionPay has invested billions of U.S.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

The $105 million round included Comcast Ventures, NBCUniversal, Bain Capital Ventures, BlackRock, TPG’s Rise Fund, DST and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. We are excited to bring together two brands with this shared social purpose to drive value to our viewers, users and customers.”. million users.

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MARCH 22, 2019

If data makes the world go ’round, so, too, does it garner investor interest, as evidenced by venture capital and other investors’ funds coming into the coffers of corporates that scrape the web for information. USD in series A funding from a consortium of investors, including Green Visor Capital. An Acquisition in Africa.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It started when Founder Stephen Lease was training for a marathon in 2016. It capitalized on that growth to add new sports, including golf, strength training and biking. Another example of AR working in a retail application can be seen at the direct-to-consumer (D2C) sunglasses retailer goodr.

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JUNE 4, 2019

This latest round was led by Fraser McCombs Capital with participation from global investors including automotive technology leader Faurecia, SAIC Capital (Shanghai Automotive), Glory Ventures, NextLeap Ventures, VectoIQ, Plug and Play, Allied, Cyphertech and Kardan LTD.

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JULY 24, 2019

An Indonesian startup that provides consumer brands with omnichannel marketing and sales products, including cash-back rewards, has raised $3 million in a Series A-2 funding round, according to a report by TechCrunch. The funding round for Pomona was led by Vynn Capital. The company was started in 2016 by Budiman and CTO Ari Suwendi.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

The leader of the latest capital raise is Partech. TechCrunch reported that in just a few years after its 2015 founding as a direct-to-consumer women’s brand, NA-KD has said that it is among the most quoted brands on Instagram in Sweden and Germany.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This reverses the previous year’s trend, between 2016 and 2017, when sub-prime loan originations across categories fell by 7.1 In 2016, the market experienced a pullback as lenders slowed or stalled sub-prime originations,” Komos said. 30 was the biggest jump since 2016.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

India’s pharmaceutical industry is expected to reach $55 billion by the end of 2020, up from $28 billion in 2016, according to a report by the Indian Brand Equity Foundation, a nonprofit trust established by the Indian government to promote the Made in India label. In June, PYMNTS reported India’s West Bengal State Beverages Corp.,

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APRIL 30, 2020

as well as Breyer Capital, Goodwater Capital, Greenspring Associates, Union Square Ventures, and more, according to a press release. Moriarty said the company prided itself on having made nine acquisitions since 2016 that had put the company in a good place to expand into the asset side of banking. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

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JUNE 9, 2020

Allen & Company, Barclays Capital Inc., Founded by tech veterans Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger in 2016, Lemonade is a property and casualty insurance carrier. The company began offering homeowners and renters insurance in New York in late 2016, and has expanded throughout the U.S. Morgan Stanley & Co., population.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Brazilian digital bank Neon is gearing up for another big wave of expansion after landing hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding. Founded in 2016, Neon Pagamentos on Wednesday (Sept. 2) announced a Series C investment of $300 million led global equity firm General Atlantic. Neon says its user base now tops 9.4

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JUNE 8, 2018

After news surfaced in May that Golden Gate Capital was considering a merger of Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear of California , the private equity firm has created a new operating company comprised of the two retailers. Both brands have made great progress in the past 24 months and have generated strong performance.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Macy’s is partnering with the female-led millennial venture capital fund SoGal Ventures to launch an in-store initiative focused on women-owned businesses, Macy’s said in a press release on Thursday (Dec. SoGal was co-founded by Pocket Sun and Elizabeth Galbut in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City. Lauderdale.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Though there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of choices when it comes to beauty and personal care, the vast majority of those products and brands (183 of them, to be exact) have historically come from one of seven large global firms: Estée Lauder, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Coty, Shiseido and Procter & Gamble.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

The luxury car brand is the first foreign company to get a license to operate a ride-hailing service in the country. “We Chengdu is the capital of China’s Sichuan Province and is home to more than 14 million people. BMW has launched a ride-hailing service in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the company reported.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Since the year 2016 in London when restaurant openings peaked, many of the eateries looked to equity crowdfunding site Seedrs to raise capital. One former Nando’s executive, Eve Bugler, said crowdfunding did have some benefits besides just the capital. “As

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. Eldridge Industries, Tribeca Venture Partners, 3L Capital, Softbank NY, Upper90 and Tenaya Capital also participated. Airbnb has taught us that hotels are not the only to stay,” Hans Tung, GGV Capital’s managing partner, told TechCrunch.

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MAY 4, 2017

The financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures with additional funds provided by Menlo Ventures, American Express Ventures and other investors. With this new round of funding, Signifyd brings its total investments to $95 million since February 2016 and a gain of 5,000 new customers. Our belief in the Signifyd approach runs deep.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Other investors that participated in the round include Allianz, General Catalyst, GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), OurCrowd, and Thrive Capital. The startup plans to use the proceeds from the capital raise to pick up the pace of expansion in the U.S. and Europe this year, and to evaluate possible new product lines.

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MARCH 10, 2017

For one, high-fashion accessory and handbag retailer Kate Spade & Company is reworking its branding strategies and reviewing strategic alternatives to increase shareholder value and improve its profit margins, as the company said in its Q4 earnings call.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Venture capital has hit a plateau, according to some analysts. “After $100M+ checks flowed freely to VC-backed companies through much of 2015, the mega-round trend has settled into a lower range through 2016,” concluded KPMG and CB Insights in their Q3 2016 venture capital report.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The country’s snack market is said to be very profitable, seeing a 400 percent increase between 2006 and 2016, per a 2019 study from China’s Ministry of Commerce. The company said it does not foresee the deal having a material impact on earnings per share or revenue this year. The market is forecasted to reach a $427 billion value in 2020.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Corelle Brands has been around for a while — like 100 years. By today’s standards, it looks anything like an innovative brand. Corning didn’t invent heat-resistant glass when it rolled out its branded version of Pyrex. At the conclusion of the deal, both firms will be owned by Cornell Capital, which bought Corelle in 2017.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

Airbnb’s last raise was in 2017, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and General Atlantic. Earlier this month, Airbnb acquired corporate client-facing extended stay company Urbandoor, in a bid to expand its Airbnb for Work brand. At that time, the company was valued at $31 billion.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Deliv , the startup delivery platform that has partnerships with well-known brands, has raised $40 million in venture funding. Deliv had previously raised $40 million, which included a $28 million series B round in the early part of 2016. reported VentureBeat. It also has $40 million in the bank.

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APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. Founded in May of 2016, San Francisco-based Darkstore offers a platform that enables on-demand, same-day and 2-day delivery options for eCommerce sites. Just recently, the company scored $1.4

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JULY 25, 2016

To say the least, the lead-up to the 2016 Rio Olympics has been one long and winding (and unevenly paved by subpar contractors) road. It better, too, because after several quarters of poor sales, brands need all eyes on their content whenever they’re not on the athletes.

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