PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A sampling of the press coverage at that time shows that the Seattle crew might have been having a rough go of it. The Nation: “Amazon’s many tentacles provide it with novel ways to strong-arm suppliers.”. That line is defined by PYMNTS as Prime, the co-branded Chase credit card and advertising services. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

NBC News reported that national, regional and local merchants are testing Google Shopping Express with big-name retailers including Target and Walgreens. The couriers aren’t Google employees, but they will be driving Google-branded vehicles and wearing uniforms that will be issued by Google, noted the report.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Today, AmazonFresh and Prime Now bring groceries directly to customers’ doors, while Prime members in the Seattle area, where Amazon is headquartered, can click and collect their groceries at two locations through the AmazonFresh Pickup program. Second, Amazon gets Whole Foods’ 365 private label brand.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Grubhub has capped fees in Seattle and San Francisco, but they remain in effect in the rest of the U.S., And it’s a movement catching on with brands and entrepreneurs of all kids, trying variations on the model. including New York City, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What I really want to do is build the biggest brand on the planet,” Plank recently told Bloomberg. “I When the park was rejected by local voters, Allen suddenly controlled a very valuable piece of property in the middle of downtown Seattle. He now owns a LOT of land in Seattle, and several of the major league sports teams in the area.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

More than 30 companies are supporting the effort, with the inclusion of global brands such as Amazon, Salesforce, Bose, Spotify, Sonos and Baidu, among others. The new solution will reportedly service SWIFT’s 11,000 financial institutions in more than 200 nations. SWIFT Moves to the Cloud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. But not all QSR chains are so focused.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. Already, a cashless store concept is already up and running in a Seattle pilot. But McDonald ’s Corp. While Burger King’s domestic sales only increased by 1.5 Subway’s $10.8

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

Digital innovation is keeping brands competitive — but really standing out requires an additional level of outside-the-box thinking. They’re a limited edition and are only available in Austin, Seattle, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City. Really outside the box, as it turns out. Each has a Whopper, French fries and a drink.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

According to reports, store number two will also be in Seattle, about a mile from the first location. Amazon said it is “excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle” for those who couldn’t quite travel that last mile. was cleared for launch, and coming soon. The store will open in Fall 2018.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

The sale went for two days (making the Prime Day moniker something of a misnomer) in 18 nations, and was the biggest-ever sale day for Amazon’s entire lineup of devices, with the Echo Dot and the Fire TV Stick leading the pack among sellers. Courting the Cool Kids: Luring Exclusive Brands With a Dedicated Accelerator .

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Ripples were promptly sent flying into all corners of the retail universe with the launch of Amazon Home Services in March 2015, and now that both mom-and-pop hardware shops, as well as national brick-and-mortar chains have had more than a calendar year to react to the changes, a definite trend has emerged.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Houston, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Miami, San Diego, Denver and New York are up next. Our goal is to be the first and largest national brand in clothing care and become a household name,” said Prakash. “We We view ourselves serving the entire country. My parents are living in central Minnesota and I want them to use Rinse.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2016

Today, in McLean, Virginia, guests of the local Hilton can have their questions answered 24/7, 365 days a year by what is likely the world’s first robot concierge, Connie (named for Conrad Hilton, the patriarch of the Hilton brand), which is powered by IBM’s Watson AI. Some believe the rest of the nation should be following that example.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Even luxury brands are contributing to this problem. In this report, we examine how fashion brands are leveraging technology to make clothing production and consumption more sustainable, from the use of plant-based textiles and bacteria-based dyes to leveraging a blockchain-based supply chain to increase transparency.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

In tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), The Coda was awarded a rating of 5 stars out of 5 for its side-impact and rollover tests. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. This would be Munchery’s downfall.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 10, 2017

The Seattle-based company’s average ship time has decreased 1.5 Consider these three examples from household-brand national retailers. The graph above shows the results achieved by one national retailer when it dropped its $8-12 delivery fee to offer same-day free shipping for a promotional period.

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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. Americans dine out more than ever before.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

Facial recognition, along with AR, is also making brands data rich — especially beauty brands. Last year, a company called Blink Identity received $1.5M from investors including Live Nation (which owns Ticketmaster) and Techstars Ventures. It analyzes their face, identifies them, and allows the student onto the campus.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Meanwhile, brands that were already virtual-first have seen dramatic increases in adoption during the crisis. Sales of the interactive at-home fitness brand Mirror doubled in the weeks following Covid-19’s arrival in the US. The average number of daily sign-ups for workout streaming platform NEOU grew 600% in one week.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. They are currently creating a waitlist and experimenting with search engine advertising (that’s where I saw it first, ad based on my Google search for “best small business banks” from a Seattle IP address). Also, wondering how it’s pronounced?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Benson Porter, Boeing Employees CreditUnion – Porter led BECU through an amazing streak of growth in the Pacific Northwest, all while building an innovative, stakeholder-driven brand respected nationally. Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Kohl’s , for instance, will bring emerging brands to over 50 physical retail locations and online starting in the fall through Curated By Kohl’s. The retailer also plans to team with Facebook on brand curation starting next year — “identifying and engaging with brands that have built a strong online community on the social media platform.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Parker continued, “We’re now focused on creating an environment that highlights our heritage and allows consumers to deeply connect with the brand as they prepare for their own exploration, wherever it may be.”. There will also be a “museum-like archive” of athlete expeditions as well as “significant icon products.”.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Over 1M millennial women are becoming mothers every year, meaning Gen Y now makes up the majority of annual births in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Many millennial consumers are looking beyond older, legacy coffee brands to blends from boutique “third-wave” coffee roasters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

And since the elephant was the brand of The Greatest Show on Earth, with its brand integrity challenged, options to license it were improbable. I listened to someone on a national news broadcast last week describe Amazon’s “small” $100 billion annual sales number (that was 2015 — we’ll find out shortly what that is for 2016).

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