Klarna to open Los Angeles pop-up shop
Payments Dive
JULY 19, 2022
Located on Melrose Avenue, the buy now-pay layer firm’s two-day shopping experience will showcase sustainable brands.
Nordstrom Local Expands In Los Angeles
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JULY 10, 2018
Following a positive reception from customers , Nordstrom Local announced two more Los Angeles locations for its hyperlocal retail concept. We’ve got a young customer base that’s very engaged with our brand,” Ken Worzel, Nordstrom’s chief digital officer and Nordstrom.com president, told Fast Company. “One
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Walmart Launches 'Modern Fashion Brand'
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
The retail giant is starting “a fashion essentials-inspired brand for both men and women created by our in-house design team,” the company said in a news release. At its core, this new brand is born from thoughtful, simple design, quality fabrics, modern silhouettes and styles updated for today.”. “At Today (Sept.
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Walmart Divests Of Shoes.com, Bare Necessities Brands As Part Of Digital Streamlining
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AUGUST 27, 2020
Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Also last year, Walmart shuttered its Jet.com eCommerce website and phased out the brand.
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Innovation-Seeking Big Brands Pop Up In Small Spaces
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AUGUST 30, 2018
Brands might want a space to test new concepts with shoppers in brick-and-mortar retail environments, but they don’t always want the time and expense involved in building out a permanent store. The Los Angeles-based Commercial Observer reported that the concept will be located in the renovated Westfield Century City Mall.
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Project Verte Launches Blockchain Marketplace For DTC Brands
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JULY 8, 2019
Project Verte has launched the MyVerte blockchain -based marketplace for direct-to-consumer brands. According to a press release , MyVerte will launch with over 100 brands, including new brands like Foreo, Temporary Forevers and La Luna Rose. The platform will also highlight new brands on a weekly basis.
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How BNPL Is Helping BlackCool Boost Brand Awareness And Availability
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JULY 24, 2020
a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal . Williform said he conceived BlackCool as a brand inspired by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that brings about a positive change for Black culture.
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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept
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FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The latest store, called Forum, opened in Los Angeles on Nov.
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141 SoFi Signs Deal For LA Stadium Naming Rights
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
SoFi has announced that it has signed a 20-year agreement with LA Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park to be the exclusive naming rights partner of the new SoFi Stadium, the future home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams.
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Activewear Brand Approaches D2C With A Purpose
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MAY 20, 2020
Anyone who works at fashion brand Bella+Canvas is familiar with the quote. Bella+Canvas is a California-based activewear brand with a unique mix of business models. As a D2C brand, Blakeslee believes his company has an effective platform for marketing and messaging. “I And what you do simply proves what you believe.”.
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Ohi Lands $2.75M To Enable Quick Delivery For Smaller Brands
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NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Founded last year by CEO Ben Jones, Ohi offers same-day or next-day delivery to smaller brands via micro-warehouses in major cities. Every brand we talk to knows this is the future.”. Ohi currently offers its service in New York’s Manhattan and Brooklyn, and is launching in Los Angeles this week.
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Menswear Brands Get An Online Spotlight With Deal-Of-The-Day Platforms
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OCTOBER 16, 2018
Small menswear brands, even some that are considered to be medium or large, might face a challenge when it comes to marketing: How do they get in front of consumers? The idea is that brands don’t have to worry about competition or incentives to drive people to purchase their products. The Brand Experience.
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How TikTok ‘eGirls’ Helped Create A Multi-Million-Dollar Fashion Brand
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DECEMBER 5, 2019
If one were to make a list of products for a cutting-edge fashion brand aimed at capturing the emerging Generation Z market, it is safe to assume that “foxtail keychains” would not make the top 10. And while the brand is often described as “punk,” “goth” and “extremely eclectic,” Lynn noted in an interview that she doesn’t see it this way.
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Nordstrom’s Small-Format Stores, Services Engage Shoppers Amid Earnings Miss
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MARCH 4, 2020
And in New York, Erik pointed out, “We’ve opened up the customer engagement – both the locals ramped up quite a bit faster than we saw in Los Angeles, and really encouraged our engagement there.”. At the time, it was also noted that Nordstrom Local has three locations out west in California: downtown Los Angeles, Brentwood and Melrose.
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How Madhappy Turned T-Shirts Into A Lifestyle Brand
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FEBRUARY 8, 2019
When the brand is a well-known luxury provider like Dolce Gabbana, it can charge whatever it wants for a T-shirt, since the customer is arguably not purchasing the shirt so much as the cache of the logo on it. The tees and hoodies are all manufactured in Los Angeles.
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B2B eCommerce Platform NuORDER Unveils Payments Service
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JANUARY 26, 2021
NuORDER brands can start taking credit card payments inside of their wholesale platforms without needing to process payments by telephone or harness a third-party payment gateway, according to a Tuesday (Jan. Brands can handle payments for immediate orders or those scheduled ahead of time. 26) announcement.
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185 Elon Musk Backs His Own Groundbreaking Tunnel Plan
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APRIL 17, 2018
Tesla Founder Elon Musk has added another prong to his master plan to save the world, an ambitious tunneling project called The Boring Company that aims to alleviate Los Angeles traffic by creating a network of tunnels beneath the city. Tesla has the most boring man in the world — but in a good way (maybe). Breaking Ground.
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Goop Inc Taps Into Booming Wellness Market
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MARCH 19, 2019
At the same time, major brands have backed integrations taking place during conferences. The news comes as lifestyle brand Goop was opening its first permanent store in New York City’s SoHo district after experimenting with a pop-up shop on Long Island, among other locations.
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Square’s Cash App Launches Apparel Collection
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DECEMBER 8, 2020
The Cash by Cash App clothing line was created in-house by the company’s Brand Studio team and features vibrant colors, psychedelic designs and parody images related to money, Women's Wear Daily reported. The unisex merchandise, which was produced in Los Angeles, includes shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, sweatpants, accessories and more.
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Elon Musk Plans Candy Venture
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MAY 8, 2018
Though Musk has an ambitious tunneling project called The Boring Company , which aims to alleviate Los Angeles traffic by creating a network of tunnels beneath the city, the company has also raised funds by selling a bizarre line of Boring Company-branded products, such as a flamethrower.
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Walmart Explores Selling Modcloth
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AUGUST 6, 2019
The deal was part of Walmart President and CEO of eCommerce Marc Lore’s plan to modernize the company’s portfolio while selling brands not found on rival Amazon. But Los Angeles-based Modcloth has yet to turn a profit and has gone through three CEOs since early 2018. and Austin. “At
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Singapore’s TiffinLabs To Launch 1,000 Smart Kitchens For Food Delivery
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JUNE 23, 2020
TiffinLabs opened in early 2019 and is operating some kitchens in Singapore, including digital-first restaurant brands Publico Pastabar and Hureideu – Korean Fried Chicken. Singapore-based foodtech company TiffinLabs has acquired access to more than 1,000 kitchens across the U.S., Now, Tiffin Labs wants to expand to the U.S. and Europe.
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The Sweet Side Of Building A Luxury eCommerce Brand
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FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Interestingly, as the brand evolved, according to O’Neill, the real driver of what is offered on their site — and their few physical stores — are the flavors making the social media waves. While the success of the rosé-infused gummy bears was impressive and explosive, it was not a one-time experience for the brand.
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Retail Pulse: Macy’s Collaborates With Brands For STORY; Kohl’s Accepts Amazon Returns
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JULY 12, 2019
Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening experiential concepts by working with other brands as they look to engage consumers with experiences instead of products. The installation will also be an experiential teaser campaign for a new online brand called Greendigs that is said to debut in the fall following its STORY run.
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100 The Untapped Power of Brand in Banking
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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Amazon Eyes Airports For Amazon Go Expansion
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DECEMBER 7, 2018
The lead for Amazon Go requested a meeting,” said a June 27 email from a technology adviser who supports Los Angeles International to a concessions official, reported Reuters. Think about how you can expose your brand,” the person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Interested?” “Yes. the concessions official replied.
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Barneys, Pier 1 And Other Iconic-But-Bankrupt Retailers Are Coming Back To Life
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JANUARY 21, 2021
Barneys became the latest brand to rise from the dead recently when the retailer reopened as “ Barneys at Saks ,” a store within a store at the flagship Manhattan site of its former rival, Saks Fifth Avenue. “We However, Barneys fell into bankruptcy in 2019, due in part to rising rents at its Manhattan and Los Angeles stores.
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Healthcare Tech Company Truepill Raises $75M To Expand
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Truepill , an online pharmacy powering delivery for direct-to-consumer healthcare brands, announced Wednesday (Sept. the New York investment advisory firm; Sound Ventures, the Los Angeles venture capital firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher; and Y Combinator, the seed money startup accelerator based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Travis Kalanick Disavows ‘Internet Food Court’ Using His Name
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APRIL 8, 2020
Kalanick’s ghost kitchen concept, under the name CloudKitchens , has chefs working to make food from popular restaurant brands and then have the food delivered via one of the usual apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc. The ghost kitchens are typically set up in lower-income areas so as to reduce overhead costs.
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Verishop Works With Westfield To Open Stores
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DECEMBER 12, 2019
To open 14 locations through next year, brand incubator and shopping website Verishop made a deal with U.S. Aside from being an online marketplace where consumers can buy from trendy apparel brands such as LoveShackFancy and Vince, the company has chosen to roll out some of its own brands. mall owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.
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Mastercard Debuts COVID-Recovery Data Tools For Business, Gov?t
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MAY 29, 2020
The tools are being used by cities worldwide, including New York City, London, Madrid, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Logan City (in Australia), as well as in the state of Arizona and by national governments, the release states.
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Online Car Buying Co Carvana Adds New Financing Option
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
When someone goes to the auto center section of the Regions Bank website, they’ll be routed to a new, co-branded site from the two companies. . In August, the company opened a car vending machine in Los Angeles. “We There are car vending machines in 21 cities in the U.S., and Carvana has next-day delivery in 146 markets.
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Does American Apparel Have A Canadian Future?
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JANUARY 11, 2017
A source close to the mater told Fortune that Gildan will not take any of American Apparel’s stores but instead will own the company’s brand and take over its manufacturing operations. The purchase of American Apparel by Gildan will essentially be an end of an era for the Los Angeles-based company, which has been around since 1998.
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Instagram Aims To Have Athletes, Teams Sell Products
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DECEMBER 4, 2019
Serena Williams and her S by Serena fashion brand rolled out a new sequin jacket on Nov. Beyond Williams, the social media platform is the primary venue for the Los Angeles Clippers’ social merchandising efforts. Athletes like Williams and many NBA stars have personal fashion brands they seek to promote. .
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Facebook To Open Small Biz Pop-Up Concept In Select Macy’s
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NOVEMBER 5, 2018
The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. 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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Newly Funded Feather Brings Furniture Subscription To LA
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MAY 16, 2019
Furniture subscription rental service Feather is using its latest round of funding to expand to Los Angeles. ” Feather has forged partnerships with brands, including West Elm , Casper , Tuft & Needle and Pottery Barn. Feather has raised $16 million in funding to date. Throughout this period, people are renting houses.
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Nike Sues More Than 1,000 Websites And Other Parties Over Alleged Counterfeiting
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JANUARY 14, 2021
Last month, the company reached a confidential settlement with streetwear designer Warren Lotas’ brand after suing for alleged copyright infringement. But in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court, Nike called Lotas a “bad actor” who was merely “promoting and selling fakes of coveted Nike Dunks,” as per Women’s Wear Daily.
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Amazon Looks To Open New Grocery Chain In US Cities
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MARCH 1, 2019
The company is reportedly aiming to open a location in Los Angeles as soon as the close of 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported. While it was not specified whether the stores would be branded with Amazon’s name, they will reportedly diverge from the company’s Whole Foods Market brand. among other cities.
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153 Buyout Looms For American Apparel?
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
American Apparel is on the block and is in the midst of seeking a buyer for the firm, having hired Los Angeles investment bank Houlihan Lokey in that effort, Retail Dive reported.
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Boohoo Eyes Nasty Gal For $20M
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DECEMBER 29, 2016
One Los Angeles retail brand that filed for bankruptcy in November may be getting a new British owner. The appeal, according to Chain Store Age , is not only the brand but the customer databases, for which Boohoo is bidding $20 million. The Chapter 11 application is pending U.S.
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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster
South State Correspondent
MAY 1, 2024
Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. The Banking Innovation Playbook – Step 1: Find a Niche Kim looked at the market and knew he needed traction in at least a single segment where he could create a brand and a following for Gentle Monster. Find the gap in one segment and build success from there.
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SaaS Platform Kount Partners With Verifi To Help Firms Minimize Disputes, Fraud
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OCTOBER 1, 2020
The collaboration will extend Los Angeles-based Verifi’s dispute management offerings to Kount’s platform, with solutions that help businesses to manage disputes, prevent chargebacks, give issuers and customers access to enhanced transaction information, provide fraud notifications, and stop fraudulent transactions. .
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Apple, NBA Team Up To Release Apple-Branded Playlist In Services Boost
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JANUARY 16, 2020
As Bloomberg put it, the label “connects about 190,000 independent artists to audiences through direct partnerships with brands.”. Subscribers who use the service have access to about 300 top publications, including the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. More Digital Services Wins Needed. The service costs $9.99
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Delivery Service goPuff Buys West Coast-Based BevMo For $350M
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NOVEMBER 5, 2020
The $350 million deal is expected to close within 30 days, the Los Angeles Times reported. The blog post touted BevMo's loyal customer base and said the company has a "deep infrastructure" and "iconic brand" to match goPuff's tech-driven system. West Coast, according to a blog post from goPuff.
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