PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. Although Amazon hasn’t commented, the strategy seems to be aimed at getting Amazon aligned with a more mass market customer segment than its other retail brands. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Banana Republic will use its partnerships to donate clothes through a number of affiliated organizations around the country, including Hour Working Women Program in New York, Central City Neighborhood Partners in Los Angeles, Family Focus Englewood in Chicago and more. ” Mark Breitbard , head of Banana Republic and Gap Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

The result was Milo – which, as Horwitz told PYMNTS in an interview, is a digitally native brand tasked with “empowering home cooks of every level to be better at what they do,” and allowing them to invest in material that will last. The two thought there had to be a better way for people to get great cookware at a good price.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

I realized I had an opportunity to create a modern brand with a focus on art while incorporating storytelling and community,” Stone said. One recent example comes from Los Angeles-based Pepper. After all, the potential trouble with DTC brands is that the name belies how hard it is to reach and recruit consumers.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 27, 2019

And so were the Uber cars in my recent trips to Los Angeles and Nashville. So, if you are asking, “what does brand get you?”, Ask the Experts My firm is not a marketing or branding firm. Tim had great insights for banks on brand. For Netflix, Forbes estimates the brand value at $11.5 Is brand worth it?

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Many of today’s most recognized brands were once small businesses until they found an SBA counselor, lender or investor. SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet started three businesses in Los Angeles, including a community bank, before joining President Obama’s cabinet in April 2014. Every business starts small.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

That competition has also extended to high-end furniture market, which is starting to show some new activity with Crate & Barrell, CB2, West Elm and now a direct-to-consumer (D2C) Canadian brand called Article gaining momentum. Founded in 2011 as a high-end home décor brand, it turned a profit after just two years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

As Americans, we do get used to certain things,” Jesse Rodriguez, 59, told the Los Angeles Times. Smaller niche brands specializing in particular types of goods — beauty and wellness, cosmetics, household items, containers, games and other nice-to-haves that Amazon can’t deliver fast — are aiming to send them directly to customers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. We have also enjoyed giving back to our community through meal kit donations, volunteer service, and so much more.”. The company ceased operations in late January after laying off 30 percent of its workforce in May 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2017

After spending time as a bartender, a law student and a world traveller, Kelly settled in as the” inventor” of a line of patchwork pants he calls Sonas (the Irish word for happiness) and the proprietor of an online fashion brand: Sonas Denim. and manufactured in downtown Los Angeles, with no underpaid textiles workers in evidence.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

Brands like TJX , Macy’s , craft and fabric retailer Joann , and Walmart ’s ModCloth are trying on smaller-format, off-brand and off-price destinations with features and experiences tailored for the digital-first generation. It does seem, however, that a focus on affordability is a core driver of new retail strategies for brands.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

In fact, the now Duchess of Sussex has sold out a few items for the brand, as its items regularly sneak into her wardrobe rotation. A royal celebrity endorsement is, of course, always nice – and certainly a good way to get a brand’s name in print. Pop-up stores. For this launch, Club Monaco is again working with Diptyque Paris.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Polk notes the brand is often accused of “subsidizing” the costs of operating in lower income neighborhoods with the profits from the higher-cost locations, but, he says that’s not actually accurate. A meal in the pricey Brentwood region might sell a dish for $7 to $8 apiece — about par for a fast casual offering in that area.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Finally, Amazon says goodbye to one of Whole Foods’ small-format stores and hello to its own private-label athleisure clothing brand. The eCommerce giant signed contracts with apartment owners and managers representing over 850,000 units, including ones from AvalonBay Communities Inc., Delivering The Goods. The Finite Shelf.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And the trend isn’t limited to luxury brands. The first covers those who recently went through a significant life event, users who just changed jobs or moved to a new community and are thus in need of a new set of wheels. The trend is becoming especially common among luxury vehicle makers, including Mercedes-Benz , BMW and Porsche.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

The largest food brands in the world, along with heavyweight eCommerce operators, continue to expand their delivery options and seek deals with delivery providers in order to keep an edge in this area of retail. The deal also calls for Hema supermarkets in China to become the first retail brand to open “Starbucks Delivery Kitchens.”

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American Banker

MAY 27, 2020

The company will incur an upfront fee but will save $7 million a year by walking away from a deal with the Los Angeles Football Club.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. Major retailers and brands go local. Target uses community research to effectively stock small stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Instead of dried black beans from a large brand at Safeway, consumers may receive scarlet runner beans that have been grown for generations but have mostly fallen out of standard distribution. It is from a restaurant in Los Angeles that, in a way, brought Oaxacan cuisine to the United States.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. They are built as a relationship bank serving the Korean community in LA and surrounding areas. A summary of the banks, their strategies, and links to their website are below. #1. BofI Holding, Inc.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

This stand-alone food ordering and delivery app — now live in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. But it’s a brand he likes and in the context of listening to some cool tunes, he decided to act on his impulse.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Total Disclosed Funding: $4.1M. Total Disclosed Funding: $51M. Paper & Tea.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2020

“Since we can’t gather in person, Kindling is your space to explore live experiences being created by instigators in the BMan community & beyond,” said organizers in a tweet. The portal will also host virtual parties, performances, screenings and celebrations curated by members of the Burning Man community.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Retail locations of all types and brands went unspared, from Los Angeles to New York City, as protests turned violent. Riots and looting over the weekend have taken their toll on retail reopening plans all over the U.S. in the wake of protests against excessive police force and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Scooters are so retro that they are almost brand new. Large billboards will go into these markets: San Francisco/Oakland, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Reno and Nashville. Lime will send out “brand ambassadors” to do community outreach and distribute 250,000 helmets over the coming months.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

FH: We are a challenger brand. We’ve had incredible response from the community, and our partners are the best in the industry. At the recent IHRSA fitness trade show in Los Angeles, we signed pretty much everyone who heard the elevator pitch. PYMNTS: Who does SwitchFit see as its competition, if any, and why?

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts).

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CB Insights

JULY 24, 2018

Since 2012, retail space occupied by brands that started online has grown by 1,000% in the top 300 malls in America. These companies represent just the first wave of direct-to-consumer brands expanding into brick-and-mortar retail. Online-only brands can approach the offline channel without any of the baggage of the big retailers (i.e.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To those community bankers claiming their growing Compliance departments say no to everything. Community bank marketing resources. Two very strong and focused community banks unite to combine big bank reach with community bank style and make the bet that it can scale to $15 billion and beyond. Did we hear a whaaaa?

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

percent) of brands pick New York, with L.A. The Facebook Macy’s pairup will bring 100 small businesses and digital brands that are popular on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. followed in a distant second place at 16.2 percent and Toronto coming in third at 5.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

At long last, the retail community can start discussing plans to reopen. CEO Kevin Johnson said in a separate letter that the brand is “ready for this new, dynamic period.” The exact timeline for individual states will hinge on which have fewer hospitalizations and the ability to do extensive testing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

At long last, the retail community can start discussing plans to reopen. CEO Kevin Johnson said in a separate letter that the brand is “ready for this new, dynamic period.” The exact timeline for individual states will hinge on which have fewer hospitalizations and the ability to do extensive testing.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. These well-positioned startups are not just competing with some of the biggest retail brands in mattresses, razors, shoes, and more, by launching their own brands.

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