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The concept comes with interactive walls and follows similar moves by sporting or other fashion brands. Lancome, as it stands, is one of the largest brands of L’Oreal, the French cosmetics group. Beauty companies are also acquiring other brands. Have & Be also owns Do The Right Thing, a men’s grooming brand.

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MAY 28, 2019

To reportedly build a licensing empire with the Sports Illustrated name, Authentic Brands Group LLC has agreed to buy the storied magazine from Meredith Corp. Authentic Brands Founder and Chief Executive Jamie Salter said, according to the newspaper, “Sports Illustrated has authority and the respect of athletes all over the world.”

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

DraftKings is expanding its reach with physical distribution and brand presence to the most frequently visited retail chains across the country, spanning convenience, pharmacy and general merchandise partners. 13) that Monthly Unique Payers (“MUPs”) for its business-to-consumer (B2C) operation surged 64 percent in contrast to Q3 2019.

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JULY 20, 2018

The situation seemed to recently come to a head, as the company told employees that it was shuttering its operations. Despite the struggles of Chef’d, the announcement came at a surprising time: The meal kit startup said in June that it had inked a deal to sell the kits in Walgreens and Duane Reade stores in the New York area.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Citi executives asked for the money back, saying it was paid inadvertently due to an operational error, sources said. District Court in New York accused Revlon of moving valuable brand assets beyond the reach of lenders in order to use them as collateral for other creditors. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

These services offer alternatives to installing and operating applications in-office or at expensive data centers as well, which can be a key consideration for the many businesses with employees who are operating remotely during the health crisis. presidential election and ongoing news about the pandemic.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Brands beat Wall Street’s expectations when its earnings were released Wednesday, as an assortment of new menu offerings were successful in drawing more foot traffic into its Taco Bell and KFC locations this quarter. Brands’ efforts at expanding its digital offerings (like mobile order-ahead) and delivery options in the U.S.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Direct-to-consumer wedding brands are opening stores in real life — and personalizing the customer experience within them through digital technology. At the same time, the brand seeks to create personalization through every one of its touchpoints. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. percent and 1.0 percent, respectively.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

In today’s top retail news, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has entered into a definitive deal to sell Cost Plus World Market to Kingswood Capital Management, while Authentic Brands is reportedly in discussions with Arcadia Group and Debenhams. It is expected that the business will keep operating as a stand-alone brand.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Amazon has poached former Uber manager Alex Vickers and Justin Ginsburgh , known for starting New York's Citi Bike bikeshare service, to helm its eBike delivery team, CNBC reported. The company has opened over 75 new facilities in the U.S. The move may show that the eCommerce giant is looking to bolster delivery times.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ridesharing company Gett, which operates under the name Juno in New York City, is shuttering its operations there and entering into a partnership with Lyft to take on its accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch. We are focusing on reaching operational profitability globally already next month in December,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition. When brands are ready to open up shop, Nejati seeks to help them go from idea to grand opening in about a month. Pop-Up Retail Trends.

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JULY 31, 2020

Authentic Brands Group ( ABG ), the New York-based brand management company, could be the latest potential buyer of Ascena Retail Group , the recently bankrupt parent firm of Ann Taylor, Footwear News reported. The New Jersey-based company operates about 3,000 stores, mostly at malls.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Small Business Digital Readiness Diagnostic tool is intended to expand the New York-based global financial services company’s Digital Doors curriculum, which promises to ensure businesses have the right devices to maximize their digital presence. “In

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JULY 19, 2019

The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. Tru Kids has entered into a joint venture with the software-powered experiential retailer b8ta to offer a new store experience with curated toys in “highly immersive, smaller-format spaces.”.

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MAY 1, 2020

The New York-based MRC was founded by Congress in the 1960s to verify that media companies are getting what they pay for when it comes to advertising. While losing certification wouldn’t have a formal consequence, it could influence how some brands spend their advertising dollars, the news service reported.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

FreshDirect will retain its brand name, report to a seven-person board, and continue to independently operate in New York City. Delhaize, founded in 2016 from a merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group, is among the biggest supermarket operators in the U.S. Morgan Asset Management.

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MAY 27, 2020

As The Wall Street Journal reported, the eatery hoped to avert a complete liquidation of its 98 locations in New York, the Mid-Atlantic, California, Illinois and Florida with a proposed $3 million sale of the business to Aurify Brands LLC. Under the terms of the deal, Aurify Brands would allow at least 35 of its U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Restaurants should respond accordingly, developing efficient, digital-based operations that help them focus on shoppers’ new priorities: quality meals at compelling prices. . Even right now, “in places like New York, the demand [for delivery] is there but … the price of delivery has gone through the roof.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

The Journal said it was unable to determine the exact value of the new offer. Online gaming already was a growing threat to MGM and other brick-and-mortar casino operators before COVID-19 forced the closing of gambling halls. IAC is publicly traded and has owned, at times, brands including Care.com, The Daily Beast and Vimeo.

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MAY 5, 2020

Before explaining that pivot, here’s a little background: The company is the brainchild of Emily Schildt, a New York City-based consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketing consultant, who leveraged what she calls her “crazy entrepreneurial spirit” and founded Pop Up Grocer as a traveling natural food and beverage brand experience.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ACI, the chain sold 50 million shares at $16 per share, bringing in $800 million – well below the 68 million shares and $1.5 billion fundraise once anticipated. An attempt to merge with the Rite Aid Corp. in 2018 got the cold shoulder primarily for this reason.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The Century 21 brand provides a trusted destination for name brand apparel, accessories, home goods and more,” Hilco Streambank Executive Vice President David Peress said in the announcement. The sale is subject to the go-ahead from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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MAY 6, 2019

The news came Thursday (May 2) that, per a ruling in federal court in New York, the State Department of Financial Services can move forward with a suit that looks to derail national bank charters for FinTech companies. Judge Victor Marrero, presiding over the U.S. lakh (roughly $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Local coffee shops had to close their doors due to shutdown orders and found that they needed to rethink their entire operational plans just to survive. Griffin noted that mom-and-pop coffee shops don’t usually have IT departments or teams of developers to build new digital features overnight.

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JULY 23, 2019

One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new brand of sunscreen. Enough, in fact, that it propelled the firm’s second big pivot — bringing in Dior retail strategy veteran Amanda Baldwin to run the operations of the company as president.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

But Austin-based Outdoor Voices operates with a much simpler motto for its workout wear: “Doing things is better than not doing them,” a simple brand motto that encapsulates its more laid-back approach to the fitness lifestyle that company Founder Tyler Haney hopes to bring to the masses. “I

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Despite physical stores nearly across-the-board drops in foot traffic, the CEOs of Warby Parker and Bonobos are bullish on physical commerce, despite their brands’ status as two of the premier eCommerce players in the U.S. As new companies grow, they start to look more like the incumbents,” Blumenthal said on Wednesday (Oct.

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JULY 7, 2020

Fast fashion already claimed a victim this week as Lucky Brand filed for bankruptcy, and H&M announced it was shuttering 170 stores across the globe due to the pandemic-driven digital shift. “We non-licensed goods) by way of self-owned and operated channels),” says fashion trade magazine The Fashion Law.

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JULY 10, 2020

Yotpo, the New York-based eCommerce marketing platform, has been selected as a partner by the UPS Customer Technology Program ( CTP ) that promises to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with access to customer reviews, visual marketing, loyalty and referrals, the company announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

According to reporting in the New York Post over the weekend, Walmart is officially apologizing to consumers for an adults-only Christmas sweater that by all appearances features Santa about to snort what looks to be cocaine, with the phrase “Let It Snow” plastered across the top. Nonetheless, Walmart is very, very sorry.

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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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APRIL 12, 2019

In March, the company filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Jumia operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt. Some of its brands include online takeout service Jumia Food, travel booking service Jumia Flights and classified services Jumia Deals.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

As it stands, Easyship says that thousands of clients on Shopify and Shopify Plus have harnessed the Easyship connection to grow their operations. Loren Padelford , GM of Shopify Plus, said in the announcement that the Shopify Plus Certified App initiative is meant to handle the high-level needs of the world’s quickest-scaling brands.

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JUNE 17, 2019

More than 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand. “Dunkin’ is an iconic, beloved brand that has long been a daily ritual for millions of people.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. These platforms bring urgency to fashion and serve as a newsfeed for brands. Gucci Operation. The change in behavior is due, in part, to social media sites such as Instagram.

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