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Instagram, Snaps Team Up To Help Brands Connect With Customers

PYMNTS

Snaps is teaming up with Instagram as the social media giant gears up for the holiday shopping season by sprucing up its commercial appeal to the major brands. New York-based Snaps announced on Monday (Oct. It's no longer up for debate that consumers want to message with brands where they already spend their time.”.

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Uber Eats Will Now Deliver Recess, A CBD Drink, In New York

PYMNTS

Recess, a CBD-infused sparkling water company, has announced that it will be available on Uber Eats for delivery to customers in New York City, according to a report by Adweek. Dirty Lemon, another beverage brand, is also on the platform. Eventually, the company plans to expand to other markets, including L.A. “We among others.

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Authentic Brands Could Buy Arcadia Group And Debenhams

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Authentic Brands is said to be in talks with Debenhams and Arcadia Group administrators, with unnamed sources claiming that the retail company is mulling a bid for the Sir Philip Green retail empire and the retailer, Retail Gazette reported. Arcadia Group is the owner of Evans, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Topshop and others.

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Goldman Sachs Will Expand Its Retail Banking Brand Marcus to the U.K.

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New-York based bank Goldman Sachs is planning to launch an online deposit service in the United Kingdom by mid-2018, a retail service that will be provided under the bank’s year-old ‘Marcus’ brand.

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Lowe’s Builds New Image At New York Fashion Week

PYMNTS

There’s a lot that’s new and digital about New York Fashion Week. In fact everything is new from the virtual runways to the individual shows getting precedence over the more general events. Even the sponsorships are new, including home improvement retailer Lowe’s. which helps brands finance shipments to stores.

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New York & Co. Parent RTW Retailwinds Auctioned For $40M

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Seven weeks after the corporate parent of New York & Co. RTW Retailwinds , a New York-based specialty apparel retailer, announced the Saadia Group agreed to purchase its eCommerce business at a bankruptcy auction Friday (Aug. banner, Fashion to Figure and HappyxNature brands. 28) for $40 million.

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Activ(ist)wear Brand Takes Its Face Masks To Times Square

PYMNTS

Avi Brown, CEO and co-founder of DHVANI, hopes that no one in New York sees the billboards without the proper social distancing. Also, my co-founder’s mother is a registered nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in New York City, which is really the epicenter of this pandemic. Miraculously, she survived.

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