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JANUARY 28, 2019

That move comes as Amazon has had trouble wooing some direct-to-consumer brands. Amazon wants “consumer goods companies to create brands exclusively for Amazon after finding that developing them on its own is too costly and time-consuming, according to people familiar with the strategy,” stated a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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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 company was started in 2016 by Budiman and CTO Ari Suwendi.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Rather than selling through a brick-and-mortar location or even on its own company website, some brands are looking to marketplaces like Amazon to sell to consumers. In this piece, we’ll review some of the larger and smaller brands that have taken this concept and run with it. Big Brands. Small Brands.

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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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JUNE 12, 2018

Borrowing from the strategy of fast food restaurants, Dine Brands is working on a new order-ahead technology. It’s like converting casual dining to fast food,” Dine Brands CEO Stephen Joyce told The Post. interactive kiosk market was worth $717 million in 2016, the most recent year for which data was available.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Global apparel and accessories retailer Gap reported net sales for both the month of January and Q4 were up across brands year on year as the company showed signs of recovery over the previous year’s declines. We remain focused on actions that will strengthen our brands and recapture market share.”. in a press release.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are putting a new spin on athleisure wear , inspired by the CBD-based wellness trend. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. In restaurant technology, cloud kitchens have emerged as a new model driven by the rise of online ordering. All this, Today in Data.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

million in revenue during Q4 2016, which is a significant increase of 38 percent from its 2015 Q4 earnings of $100 million. Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney went into why he believes the company saw such success over the last year in this quote from the earnings call : “2016 was an incredibly successful year for Grubhub.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Amazon.com Head of Beauty for Private Brands Kara Trousdale said in the announcement, “Our goal is to help customers spend less time and money searching for the right skincare solutions.” The size of the global beauty and personal care products market will reach $716.6 As it stands, beauty is a big and booming worldwide business.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

According to Marketing magazine’s 2016 Consumer Superbrands survey , British Airways managed to hold its top spot among the most favored (or favoured) brands among consumers in the British Isles. However, 2016’s third-place winner, LEGO, is a newcomer to the podium, having spent 2015 at No.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Online And In-Store Convergence Via Mobile. In 2016, we saw the first significant change in that dynamic. The reason?

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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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JANUARY 24, 2020

Vitamins may be a massive market in the U.S., A little under two years after that project was initiated, Ritual’s first product — a multivitamin for women — was released in late 2016. There is no shortage of vitamin brands on the market. For first-time shoppers, buying vitamins can be a little overwhelming.

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JULY 2, 2018

More than a store or a brand, The Sharper Image was the traditional mecca of the husbands, fathers and boyfriends along for mall trips they didn’t really want to be on, offering consolation in the form of a session in the vibro-massaging leather recliner and the opportunity to touch a plasma globe.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Omnichannel Commerce. So why was 2016 the year omnichannel commerce came to fruition? The Future Is Now.

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MARCH 18, 2019

A new study by Marketplace Pulse showed that Amazon-owned private-label brands aren’t as successful as many think, according to a report in Bloomberg. The New York-based eCommerce research firm found shoppers aren’t any more inclined to buy the Amazon brands , even when the company highlights them in search results. “We

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A study by Dotcom Distribution, a logistics and fulfillment firm, found that close to 90 percent of online shoppers consider delivery times central to their decision to shop with an eCommerce brand in the future. In 2015, 60 percent claimed that brand packaging affected their perceptions versus 68 percent in 2016.

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MAY 9, 2017

saw purchase volume increase 7 percent year over year in 2016. reached $5.648 trillion in 2016. Debit and prepaid cards with those brands as well as the brands of EFT networks Star, Pulse, Nyce, Interlink, Accel and others combined generated $2.589 trillion in purchase volume, up 5.8 percent when compared to 2015.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

2016 started off with a bang in the retail world when MPD and PYMNTS uncovered a few discrepancies in the retail data that many major retailers and reporting institutions were using to underestimate the impact of digital sales on brick-and-mortar sales. “In A Retail Data Reporting Error Was Uncovered.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The CFPB has filed a lawsuit against Oakland, CA-based online lender LendUpLoans alleging that LendUp is in violation of a 2016 Consent Order that required the lender to pay over $3.5 In the Complaint filed last week in the U.S.

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JULY 26, 2016

Alibaba , the Chinese eCommerce marketplace giant, has announced plans to expand its reach to Australia by the end of 2016, according to media reports.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of An Incredible Shift In Retailer And Consumer Expectations. My company is in loyalty, or behavior incentivization.

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William Mills

JANUARY 14, 2016

Content marketing has rapidly emerged as a key marketing strategy within the fintech industry in a relatively short time. I vividly remember my content marketing conversations with clients in early 2014. Our clients had no idea what content marketing or HubSpot encompassed. 2015 was a content marketing tsunami.

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MARCH 1, 2017

To succeed in retail (and retail marketing), merchants and advertisers need to keep up with what shoppers want, how they buy, and where. You need to be able to market with relevance,” Hale said. TouchCR fills these needs, Hale said, noting that TouchCR works best for mid-market, consumer-facing companies.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

That’s why marketers will be leveraging mobile in their holiday shopping strategies this year, with new and creative strategies that focus more on omnichannel solutions and less on generic mobile coupons. Other promotional tactics planned include branded apps, which 20 percent of CMOs say they will use.

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MARCH 3, 2017

To show how much eCommerce has impacted shopping, 1010data released its 2016 Online Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry Report this week. 1010data’s senior vice president of marketing, Jed Alpert, commented in the company’s release about how eCommerce is impacting brands.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Domio , a startup that designs and rents apartment hotels, has raised $100 million in funding to expand both nationally and globally to 25 markets by 2020, according to reports on Tuesday (Dec. It is currently in 12 markets. The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. The funding round closed in late summer.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Digitally native mattress and home goods brand platform Resident landed a $130 million investment headed up by Nexus Capital Management and Ion Crossover Partners with participation from Baron Capital Group in Q4 of 2020, according to a Thursday (Jan. 7) announcement.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Like the Chefling app, these devices sometimes interface with voice-activated assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, and have the potential to save consumers from encountering expiring food and to inform brands on which products consumers are bringing home from the grocery store. I think we can do 1 million with the proper marketing.”.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In doing so, we’ve developed a platform that’s second-to-none and unique in the market today. Masterpass is currently available in 33 markets, with plans to expand into 36 by the end of this year. and around the world.

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MAY 5, 2016

In fact, in Q1 2016, Chapter 11 filings from commercial companies actually fell 5 percent across the board. For every new path cut through the market, the retailers standing in the way are cut down. But, for every dearly departed retailer so far in 2016, are there lessons to be learned by those that are still struggling to survive?

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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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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Congratulations to the Top 2016 IB Social Media Leaders. The panel of judges include: Jessica Wallace, former digital strategy/marketing engagement, ICBA; Sarah Elbert, executive editor of Delta Sky magazine; Carly Ferry, senior digital strategist, MSP-C; and Patrick Dix, vice president of public relations at SHAZAM Inc.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Marking the sixteenth consecutive quarter of declines in the tablet market, the third quarter experienced an 8.6 When it comes to brands of tablets, Apple stayed in the lead. percent fall on a year-over-year basis. million tablets shipped globally in the third quarter of 2017, only 36.4 Amazon and Samsung were also in the top three.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The firm launched in 2016 with three products — natural deodorant, moisturizer and solid face wash — all sold online, direct-to-consumer. While two women starting a beauty and wellness brand has not been unheard of in the last decade, Duchnowski and Cox have raised some eyebrows since founding the firm.

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