PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

Koupon is a mobile offer platform and redemption network, powering offers for over 43,000 retailers and the world’s largest CPG brands. Its reach, patented offer delivery and security technology, Koupon helps brands and retailers drive sales by targeting consumers and delivering offers when consumers are ready to buy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. With its Predictive Lifecycle and Marketing Platform, the Durham, N.C.-based

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Does this online brand have a chance at overtaking Victoria’s Secret? Adore Me burst on the e-scene (as it were) in 2011, founded by Morgan Hermand-Waiche. In 2015, the company brought in an estimated $43 million, making Victoria’s Secret’s 62 percent market share seem catchable. Experts are starting to say yes. price point.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

Both luxury brands are competing in a declining market for handbag sales, and Kate Spade’s vibrant styles give Coach an edge in the race for younger consumers. The merger comes at a tough time for Michael Kors, which is trying to shed its image as a lower-priced brand. According to Bloomberg Pursuits , Coach Inc. ’s

Marketing 101

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

billion market to a $5 billion market by the end of 2017, as independent startups entered the business only to find supermarket chains and big box stores entering the mix. For example, retailers that get customers to pick up goods inside a store have the opportunity to get them to buy more products when they come to pick up orders.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. The first recorded case of it dates back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, producers of pottery and chinaware, marketed their wares with endorsements from Britain’s royal family, hoping to show off the company’s inherent value and the high quality of their products.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Every subscription retail service — or any retail company for that matter — needs a supply chain. That business model has made Bespoke Post one of the most agile subscription services on the market, and its supplier relationships — especially with its small businesses — have made it one of the most discoverable sites in the category.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Absolutely no need to panic, then — unless the topic is retail bankruptcies , which increased year over year by 24 percent. Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. For every new path cut through the market, the retailers standing in the way are cut down. January — Wet Seal. As of Feb.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As Sears faces calls to wind down its operations, the retailer is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a deal for $350 million in financing with Great American Capital Partners, along with other lenders. The retailer reportedly chose the proposal from Great American Group, along with partners, over one from hedge funds.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Because as a brand, they are opposed to the overpackaging endemic to the beauty industry. And those types of concerns have led to questions in the week since the viral marketing stunt as to whether or not it is fair or appropriate of Lush to ask its retail employees to actually come to work nude in service of a corporate cause.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Well, we’re talking about creative and innovative packing as the next big thing in retail. But lately, that’s all started to change, as many retailers are embracing bolder, more colorful and less “square” boxes as a way to make their products stand out on the ever-crowded shelves of retaildom. Or maybe it’s already here.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The Olsen twins’ fashion empire has had a rather twisty and turny path through the world of retail apparel. The Row’s most beloved item of 2011, for example, was an alligator handbag that promptly sold out – even though its retail price was $39,000. ” Will it work?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Peltz and P&G collectively spent over $100M on marketing to bring investors to their sides. Table of Contents: Challenges facing the CPG industry.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Some Stitch Fix investors are afraid the Silicon Valley firm has “grown large,” and that its recent direct buy option “is a validation that ‘fixes’ are reaching a saturation point,” said BMO Retail Analyst Simeon Siegel. The company anticipates that the move will give it a bigger market share in apparel.

Retail 130

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. They will include home goods and skin care products, among others, from brands such as home goods company East Fork and luxury bedding company Parachute. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News….

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Chris Skinner

MAY 8, 2017

America’s biggest banks haven’t seen much change to their market share in the last decade, and UK banks have just been getting bigger. That grew to 70% and, excluding the impact of mergers and acquisitions, the four largest banks have lost less than 5% market share since 2005. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. We see a very big market niche for ready-made meals,” Griesel was quoted as saying to the Rheinische Post newspaper.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

The updated logo is true to our heritage, but it’s really cleaned up,” Best Buy Chief Marketing Officer Whit Alexander said in an article on the retailer’s website. But The Verge offered another interpretation: It’s minimizing the price bag as brick-and-mortar retail diminishes. Back in 2011, Best Buy opened seven new stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry. There’s increasingly less middle ground between getting omnichannel right or fading into oblivion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

It’s hard to find a major eCommerce retailer that has evolved more than Newegg. In 2011, Newegg launched a marketplace model where other sellers accessed its eCommerce platform. And while it may be tempting for brands to recapture margin by selling direct, owning customer engagement from start to finish is easier said than done.

Branding 141

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Following the quarterly check-in with parent firm L Brands , which also owns Bath & Body Works and the youth-oriented PINK lingerie brand, the reviews have not been kind. L Brands slashed its earnings estimates by 8 percent. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

We’re excited to be opening a brand-new store in a popular shopping center in a growing part of the Salt Lake City market,” Jeff Shelman, a Best Buy spokesman, told the StarTribune. In 2017, for example, the retailer closed 18 stores and 11 stores in 2016. But Best Buy did open seven new stores in 2011.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2016

The two sites have been part of the Walgreens family since their acquisition in 2011 in a deal valued around $409 million. According to the experts, the shutdown hints at a broader plan on the part of Walgreens to centralize their digital brand on health, wellness and beauty.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Consumer packaged goods firms have of late show an upswing of interest in startup brands, like Honest or Dollar Shave Club, which Unilever snapped up for a cool $1 billion over the summer. Honest Company was founded in 2011, is led by CEO Brian Lee and started out by selling nontoxic, eco-friendly diapers and other baby products.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a veritable legion of DTC brands and startup shops have sprung up in the last several years to fill the holes in the market – and even reshape it. Victoria’s Secret has seen its sales stall , as the brand has been accused of being out of step with the tastes of contemporary consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Which is perhaps why Amazon entered the scene with the launch of its Subscription Box Store last July, and why even successful subscription brands like BarkBox have started signing on. Being early is a huge advantage on Amazon, as it was on Facebook in 2012,” Meeker told Modern Retail. That’s part of what makes it appealing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The deal comes shortly after the retail giant made three other large eCommerce initiatives in China. We look forward to deepening our cooperation with Walmart as China’s O2O retail industry continues to evolve and grow.”. Walmart has had an online presence in China since 2011 after buying part of the Yihaodian supermarket business.

Retail 100

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. According to FT reports, Walmart has been approaching bankers to explore an exit by sale from Japan, as the international retail giant is seeking to divest itself of the struggling Seiyu supermarket chain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

retailers are attracted to a stable market. Target’s move into Canada met with store closures, bankruptcy of its subsidiary early last year — only two years after entering the Canadian market — closure of all 133 Canadian stores and a $5.4 retailers were eager to move north. and its successful brands, such as the U.K.’s

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CB Insights

JULY 24, 2018

The most potent symbol of the ascendance of e-commerce and downfall of physical retail is, of course, Amazon. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Learn how Walmart, Amazon, Sephora, Zara, and other retailers are using AI to reinvent the brick-and-mortar store. in market value. to $355.9B

Retail 49

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

After its launch in 2011, HiGear, a San Francisco, Calif.–based While the fraud-fighting technology available six years ago didn’t stand a chance of protecting HiGear, the current car-sharing market , which is projected to be worth $16.5 Cracking the code on digital identity in luxury retail. Then suddenly, it hit a wall.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. Grubhub absorbed 27 of OrderUp’s markets, including Baltimore itself, reported The Baltimore Business Journal. Grubhub isn’t just about hungry people.

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Baltimore Boston Chicago Mobile 138

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in leveraging Amazon’s scale as a platform — with millions of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and even micro-sized businesses hawking pretty much everything under the sun — it might seem a “slam dunk” if, say, a financial industry powerhouse were looking to bring small business loans to a new market. The Challenge.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

24) — you could be on your way to owning a pallet’s worth of mostly overstocked items , products that included a mystery collection of grocery and drugstore items, a “truckload” of apparel and accessories, the total of which retail for $620,611. Retailers are losing billions and billions of dollars on the way returns are managed,” he said.

Online 128

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Walmart has had an online presence in China since 2011 after buying part of the Yihaodian supermarket business. Unfortunately, at the time, that partnership failed for Walmart in terms of grabbing market share. JD.com seems to have more promise for Walmart, as JD holds 23 percent of the market.

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