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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

We believe that the critical mass of our transformational challenges is behind us, and we remain sharply focused on operational improvements and financial discipline to accelerate strategies to create sustainable, long-term growth for the Under Armour brand and our shareholders,” Frisk said in the statement.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

The concept comes with interactive walls and follows similar moves by sporting or other fashion brands. Lancome, as it stands, is one of the largest brands of L’Oreal, the French cosmetics group. Beauty companies are also acquiring other brands. Have & Be also owns Do The Right Thing, a men’s grooming brand.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In the long list of startup finalists competing at South by Southwest 2017 hides a brand new personal finance management app. Hip Money – a new app by Hip Pocket – adapts the millennial habit of “swiping” to help them save and pay down debt through a mobile app. Nebraska-based software Read More.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Foley has worked with SPAC mergers in the finance sector before, with one of his private ventures working with Blackstone in 2017 to buy insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life. It operates through brands like Income Access, Paysafecard, Skrill and Neteller, Bloomberg reported. II SPAC raised $1.47 with a market value of $1.95

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. Yum operates the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC chains, and the company’s fourth-quarter results, released Thursday (Feb. It’s an impressive achievement, considering we rolled out the program in the second half of 2017.”.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Ordermark, which was founded in 2017, also operates Nextbite , a pioneer in the virtual restaurant space letting brick-and-mortar stores offer delivery-only brands, including Wiz Khalifa's HotBox by Wiz, out of their existing spaces.

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PYMNTS

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. dollars while traveling abroad.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Although Apple will operate the playlist, a relatively young label called UnitedMasters , which was founded in 2017, will provide much of the music. As Bloomberg put it, the label “connects about 190,000 independent artists to audiences through direct partnerships with brands.”. More Digital Services Wins Needed.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Some brands, like Solimo , are in use by Amazon globally,” TJI said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

The investment will also help further research into IoT operating systems, edge computing and natural language processing (NLP). . “By The Tmall Genie smart speakers were introduced by Alibaba three years ago and link to more than 270 million devices from 1,100 brands in China, according to Ku.

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MAY 19, 2017

rose some 4 percent in after-hours trading following the company’s earnings release for the first quarter of fiscal 2017. In Q1 2017, Gap Inc. Across brands, Gap Inc. reported comparable sales up 2 percent in Q1 2017, a significant improvement over the 5 percent loss the company posted in the same period last year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Premium jeans brand True Religion has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in three years, according to court filings. True Religion was acquired for $824 million in 2013 by London-based capital investment firm TowerBrook Investment Partners, and ended up filing for bankruptcy in 2017.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices. But for the last three decades or so, the business model did not change very much.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

These firms are finding that managing both systems in the cloud offers the flexibility and security needed to streamline invoicing and cut costs, while keeping operations running as smoothly and accurately as possible. Yet, many still ignore AP automation capabilities’ importance when upgrading their ERP software platforms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The website is a re-branding of Middle Eastern eCommerce site Souq.com , which was acquired by Amazon in 2017, PYMNTS reported. Last year, the company converted Souq’s website in the United Arab Emirates to an Amazon-branded one, amazon.ae. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new brand of sunscreen. Enough, in fact, that it propelled the firm’s second big pivot — bringing in Dior retail strategy veteran Amanda Baldwin to run the operations of the company as president.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

brand to enter HelloFresh’s portfolio: HelloFresh, EveryPlate and Green Chef are the other three. We have four high-growth food brands in our group, all benefiting from our strong growth engine, technology and supply chain infrastructure.”. CPG brand Nestlé announced that it has closed a deal to acquire Freshly , a U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in retail innovation, Indonesia’s Blibli.com has opened a cashierless brick-and-mortar store location for its BlibliMart brand. s program for dockless electric vehicle operators. 2017: The year D.C All this, Today in Data. Data: 10K: Maximum number of scooters that would be permitted in 2020 with D.C.’s

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Before the announcement, Bon-Ton announced it would shutter 40 out of its 260 brick-and-mortar stores across its various brands. To keep its operations going, the retailer said it had lined up $725 million in debtor-in-possession financing as its case makes its way through bankruptcy court.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ridesharing company Gett, which operates under the name Juno in New York City, is shuttering its operations there and entering into a partnership with Lyft to take on its accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch. We are focusing on reaching operational profitability globally already next month in December,” he said.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

ModCloth offers exclusive indie and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35-year-old women, while Go Global Retail is a brand investment platform for strategic investors in the consumer sector. Walmart acquired the assets and operations of ModCloth in March 2017 for an undisclosed amount.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The company was founded by Portuguese fashion entrepreneur José Neves in 2008 with the goal of creating an online marketplace for luxury boutiques and brands. “We The average age of Farfetch’s luxury shopper is 36 — somewhat younger than usual, which explains why brands like Harvey Nichols were enthusiastic to sign on. million in 2017.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

As restaurant operators seek to bolster sales in the face of weak traffic growth, Yum! Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. The restaurant chain had begun testing the service in Phoenix back in December, Reuters reported. The news comes as Yum!

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

I’ve been with the exchange pretty much from the beginning, and I’ve never seen this kind of growth," said Chief Brand Officer Juan Mendez , according to CoinDesk. This is bigger than the 2017 spike on operations and on demand.".

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Lower ATM operating revenue in the U.K. ATM operating revenue, meanwhile, declined 15 percent year over year to $329.8 ATM operating revenue, meanwhile, declined 15 percent year over year to $329.8 North American ATM operating revenue increased 3 percent, but was offset by lower revenue in the U.K. Late Thursday (Nov.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Manheim Logistics will use its Ready Logistics and Central Dispatch brands with DHL's logistics engineering expertise and advanced technology, including advanced routing, to help customers speed up processes, according to the release. And there will be a new integrated user experience portal for use by shipping and operations workers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the end of 2017, though, mobile payments accounted for 30 percent of the brand’s total transactions. company-operated transactions, the company said in its financial report. That compares with 12 percent for the company’s fiscal Q2 and 9 percent in the fiscal third quarter of 2017. Only a few – or 3.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For its three years in operation, Brandless generated no shortage of buzz with its concept of “private label for less” and the idea that the best brand is no brand at all. Under his leadership, the plan for the brand was to pivot into higher-margin, bigger ticket products such as CBD oil and move Brandless onto store shelves.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

And some eCommerce brands are bringing the convenience of self-service technology into their brick-and-mortar stores. The projected CAGR of the global customer self-service software market from 2017 to 2024 is 16.34 Sixty-four percent of Canadian consumers say self-service technologies improve their in-store shopping experiences.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

In 2016, eGaming was a $493 million industry, and in 2017 (the last year for which data was available), that had jumped to $655 million. As a brand, they understand that this isn’t casual for many gamers – this is a big deal, and they’re stepping up in a big way to give students even more reasons to compete.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Much of that was attributed to the closure of Toy R Us, the nation’s largest toy brand which declared bankruptcy in 2017. Lego sales jumped 14 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year, while the company’s operating profit increased 11 percent to $622 million. under the age of 14.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

When Stockwell launched in September of 2017, it went by a different name: Bodega. But the branding came across somewhat differently. The brand was widely accused of being culturally insensitive and appropriating the name of the very shops they were hoping to push out of business with their full-service vending machines.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The company, which operates its own eCommerce marketplace, has built its own supply chain, according to reports, and has recently expanded into the Mumbai and Pune regions, with perishables delivered the same day. The startup also began operations in UAE recently. The total raised to date comes in at $33 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Also, Farfetch will get a “Level 1” entry point on the JD app, giving the 300 million JD customers access to upwards of 1,000 luxury brands and boutiques. We are delighted to build on our relationship with JD.com, and bring to market an unrivaled solution for luxury brands to succeed in the Chinese market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

According to an anonymous source who spoke to CNBC , the children’s clothing retailer plans to close around 900 stores it operates under the Gymboree, Janie and Jack and Crazy 8 brands as part of the bankruptcy filing. The company is also trying to sell Janie and Jack in an attempt to save the high-end brand and its 139 stores.

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