PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The problem with customer retention in an era when consumers are easily distracted and pulled away isn’t that brands aren’t trying, or even that they are using the wrong tools. We want to help brands move away from spray-and-pray generic email offerings to truly personalized campaigns.”. That has been our focus,” Goldstein said. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Everybody wants brand names, right? The upshot for the wholesale manufacturers behind those brands is, of course, that they are able to set their suggested retail prices a little bit (or, sometimes, a lot) higher than items bearing lesser-known labels. And that has become something of a problem for brick-and-mortar retailers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

And though this market presents brands with a large audience of potential customers, will digitally native millennials tune in to a shopping network? There is, of course, the game show element in which each player has a chance to win a cash prize by guessing what percentage discount will cause a particular product to sell out.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

However, for SSENSE (pronounced essence), at its first retail location, the Canadian eCommerce brand turned physical retailer has opted for a slightly different flavor. That approach has followed the brand into its physical hub in Montreal, where buyers are likely to see streetwear-brands like A-COLD-WALL* alongside Givenchy wear.

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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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PYMNTS

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. Delivery, kiosks and other digital efforts are taking more prominent roles at Yum! The goal for Yum?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In the early days of the Internet, brands and businesses knew they wanted to get online, but they just weren’t quite sure why, or how best to do it. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. Coming Customization.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

brands like apparel retailer Austin Reed, though, the weight of all that financial baggage is too much to crawl out from under. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Mars brand, which operates 13 stores across Maryland, will be selling off five of its locations and shuttering the remaining eight. For some U.K.

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Perficient

JANUARY 11, 2021

The brands that can operate with speed and agility win in this environment. A mobile product runs its course until it no longer meets the needs of your business. . Top brands choose native mobile app solutions to offer the best experience and performance for users. The winners in this environment move fast.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

Stein Mart said it filed motions with the court that would allow it to stay in operation, including continuing to provide staffers with their wages as well as benefits, with the court’s approval. The motions would also allow for vendors and suppliers to be paid “in the normal course of business” and cash collateral to be utilized.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

L Brands announced it will close all 23 Henri Bendel stores, including its famous Fifth Avenue location in Manhattan, as well as its website, after the holidays. Once it was taken over by L Brands in 1985, the retailer began focusing solely on handbags and accessories. L Brands reported $12.6 billion in revenue last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

By the numbers, America’s largest mall operator reported net income for the second quarter at $254.2 Funds from operations (FFO) was $746.5 As expected, both domestic and international operations were hit hard by reduced lease income and ancillary property revenues as a result of the pandemic. million compared to $495.3

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PYMNTS

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. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere. Private Label Pivot.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Brands keeps rolling out delivery and technology for its quick service restaurant (QSR) brands, but that didn’t save it from disappointing investors early Wednesday (May 1) when it released its financial results for the first quarter of 2019.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2018

CPG brands need to go to shoppers, rather than waiting around for shoppers to come to them. We see room for CPG brands to grow through: Home-sharing — Airbnb boasts roughly 5M home listings across 18K cities. CPG brands could sell products to Airbnb hosts at bulk rates or offer them free samples of new products to distribute.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

Add to those challenges the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the mass embrace of working from home — itself a logistics and operational challenge for financial institutions (FIs) — and complexity becomes exponential, even daunting. In other words, the experts are off premises, at home, perhaps not as accessible as they once were.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Last year, after receiving funding from Ingka Investments, Livspace CEO Anuj Srivastava said IKEA has a " natural synergy " with the company's brand. Srivastava said the company had been affected by the pandemic like many others, but it was looking ahead and trying to stay the course. “It

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Christopher & Banks said it has filed motions with the court to seek permission to maintain its operations by paying vendors and suppliers in the usual course of operations, paying staffer wages and benefits without disruption and the utilization of cash collateral. In September, Christopher & Banks reported a 70.9

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Changing course isn’t an easy thing for businesses to do, particularly when it's a big change like shifting focus from providing services direct to consumer (D2C) to taking on a B2B model. But Knutson said the company is happy to hand over the front-end consumer interaction and life-cycle marketing activities to partner brands.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 15, 2020

I sat down with Tom Hogan , chief operating officer, and Andrea Lampert , vice president of people, to discuss the program in more detail. Tom Hogan, Chief Operating Officer, Perficient. Andrea: Participants can expect to attend a full-time software engineering course where they will learn Python in 10-14 weeks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

For Walmart, adding Shopify sellers to its online operations helps give a bit of scale, and third-party sales do not carry the same costs as seen in other marketplace models. Incremental additions from Shopify would of course move the needle quite a bit — but, then again, Amazon has more than 2.5 million sellers on its platform.

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PYMNTS

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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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

Non-interest-bearing accounts, of course, have much longer average lives, while CDs have much shorter average lives. As you set marketing plans and budgets, consider that just this simple act of outreach and branding increases the average life by about 2-4 months. This alone can have a material impact on retention and is inexpensive.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

And, of course, being surrounded by all those fur pillows and easy to assemble coffee tables more often might convince consumers to buy a bit more than they might have otherwise, particularly with the added inducement of the time currency discount. The big question, of course, is will it work?

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. Innovation labs and technology and business incubators are nothing new, of course, but the rise of eCommerce, omnichannel retail, digital payments and other such efforts has provided fresh fuel and motivation to that trend. In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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PYMNTS

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

JANUARY 20, 2021

On a conference call with analysts , P&G Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller said the mid- to long-term impacts of the pandemic are accelerating top and bottom-line growth as the quality and relevance of its many brands resonates with consumers. “We Constructive Disruption.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

They will operate under the logo and name of High Times. But the last stages before it reaches a consumer, so delivery, retail, and of course just continuing to connect consumers to the great cannabis brands that are out there.” At the same time, different state laws make it a difficult space in which to operate.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

According to several sources, the company’s four brands — Gap, Old Navy , Banana Republic and Athleta — have different strategies to achieve the new business focus. The three-year formula will focus on product assortment, customer loyalty and brand awareness, online sales and omnichannel capabilities and a revised store profile.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

There is no word on how much the retailer — which connects nearly 900 boutiques and luxury brands to 2 million affluent and luxury-enthused consumers — plans to raise, but it placed a $100 million marker in the filing. Of course, that could change. percent increase over 2016, and its operating profit was $136.9 million in 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Daily operations are headed by Katzenberg and veteran Silicon Valley tech executive Meg Whitman, who serves as Quibi’s chief executive officer. Advertisers included big brands and household names like Pepsi, Walmart, and Anheuser-Busch. Quibi features short videos that tell a story over the course of several chapters. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Those efforts include hardware and software investments to increase speed of service, cut operational costs and streamline the guest experience and new products meant to increase restaurant revenue as well as deepen restaurateurs’ connections with guests. We’re thrilled to continue to support this incredible team in 2020 and beyond.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

For brands and merchants — from the largest marquee names in luxury retail to the smallest shops to artisans peddling handcrafted wares — going direct to consumer (D2C) has never been more urgent. Those merchants want to be paid in a wide range of local currencies, and in some cases may be operating from highly regulated countries.

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NCR

JUNE 12, 2017

One of the key stages of an omni-channel transformation is assessing your existing operating model and looking for ways it can be improved. To deliver a truly customer-centric operating model, it’s important to look at these processes from an outside-in perspective as well.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

She talked about the vital role that payments — specifically, digital payment options — plays in subscription retail, how the industry will achieve future growth and why a certain level of friction is not necessarily a bad thing for operators of such businesses. The findings of the PYMNTS research provided a foundation for the discussion.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

It’s not just a change in consumption patterns that restaurant operators are struggling with – it’s a change in perception. At its heart, mobile ordering and delivery is part of a consistent, positive brand experience,” he noted. That why OTE must be treated as its own business with unique needs.

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