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MAY 8, 2018

Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba has acquired Daraz , Pakistan’s most popular online shopping destination, thus expanding its empire into South Asia. Daraz was founded by Rocket Internet in 2012 and has since expanded across five South Asian markets, including Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal and, of course, its home country of Pakistan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Data from Coresight shows that 9,300 stores shuttered in 2019, the most since 2012, the first year the information was tracked, FT said. Online Brands. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. Overall retail sales from Nov. 24 were up 3.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Founded in 2012, Jumia also became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. Jumia currently operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt. Its data shows that the company processed more than 13 million packages last year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to consumers. This isn’t Amazon’s first attempt at breaking into the luxury fashion market – the retail giant originally tried in 2012, but was not successful. Part of the problem is the eCommerce brand’s image.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands. Investors put $2.65 billion more.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Imran Khan, who spent three years at Snap as chief strategy officer, has created a new retail company, Verishop , which aims to “bring joy back to online shopping, and do it at scale with the ease of online purchasing and fast delivery we’ve all come to expect.” High-End Retail.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It offered high-end, private-label clothes as well as national men’s clothing brands in regular shipments for people who signed up. The department store chain relied on Bombfell to handle the logistics of the operation. . The migration of shoppers online has hurt the retailer’s business, and it’s had to close stores and cut jobs.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the home alone, Amazon reported 100,000 smart home products from over 9,500 brands. “It In 2012, for example, Amazon attempted to break into the luxury fashion market, but it didn’t quite take off. Currently, there are 12 brands participating in the luxury launch , according to Amazon, all of which will get individual roll outs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Founded in 2012, Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. Jumia operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt. retailers online in markets across Africa, according to reports. Jumia Scope.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

An initial explosion of online orders left Amazon overwhelmed, forcing the company to temporarily reprioritize its operation toward mostly delivering key household items. The pandemic has been a boost to online gaming, as consumers are both buying more games and subscribing to services more often to play together.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yes, I know that for many of you, especially in California, this is old news and standard operating procedure – but hear me out. The specific issue that I’m referring to is merchant surcharging – a fancy term to describe the fee charged by merchants when consumers use network-branded card products to pay for their purchases.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. Giving online shoppers a more personalized experience. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

A company called Buy It Installed , which launched in 2012, is ready to help the less skilled consumer with the task. The company allows online and offline consumers to purchase products with installation included, and then uses connecting technology to facilitate the assembly with an installation service provider.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Avant is really two businesses operating under one roof — connected in crucial ways, but separate in function.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

2 player … the brand loyalty of Lyft has been quite impressive, as the company continues to attract drivers and riders with its brand.” Public opinion counts, and it should be noted that Lyft, in tandem with the IPO, said it has started a civic engagement program titled City Works in the cities in which it operates.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a nutshell, that’s what PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready said is both the problem with and the path forward for in-store mobile payments. We are starting to see consumers demanding things like order ahead or buy online, pick up in-store,” Ready said. And merchants now know that they have to do something about it.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

While social media platforms, if utilized effectively , can be beneficial for any retail business, those with an established brand obviously have a leg-up — in terms of financial assets, infrastructure and reach — on more nascent companies in their ability to quickly turn social presence into profit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

Launched in March 2012, DSC rode the waves created by its clever marketing to thumb its metaphorical nose at entrenched businesses stuck in outdated retail models. How that growth might come about is less clear, especially since the two brands would seem to operate on different models.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

Disintermediating traditional retailers — and forcing brands to decide how to become part of Amazon’s ecosystem or risk losing sales. The store and the brands come to her via a medium she likes and uses and from a brand that she trusts and increasingly uses to buy the things that she used to trek to a store to buy — 24/7/365.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For those unfamiliar, mBank is a Polish direct bank brand established by BRE Bank in 2000 as one of the first of its kind in the country. Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank.

Branding 100

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

As the recent exit of German online food delivery behemoth Delivery Hero’s exit from China last week proves, you can have a strong business model, deep pockets and a well-defined mission, and still go home empty handed. In China, at least, a hero ain’t nothing but a sandwich. What about capital flowing into the region, from investors?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The mobile app Drizly , for instance, has been letting customers order alcohol via their smart devices since 2012, adding investors and new areas of service over the intervening years. It now operates in 70 American cities, as well as two in Canada.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In a state of constant change, how does an online retailer ensure it is keeping up with the best customer experience, security, payments solution or fulfillment process? The merchant’s focus is on the products and brands they’ve created,” she said. Merchants have seen eCommerce reinvent itself twice in the last five years.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Founded in 2012 in Los Angeles, the digital marketing firm works to bridge (hence the name) the gap so that the various communications don’t fall into the void. “We They also accelerated the adoption of our new online ordering platform. Which is where Bridg enters the picture. Because by the numbers, every open quite literally counts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In addition to operating some 1,500 U.S. Petco said the upgrades include a focus on curbside pickup, same-day delivery, online appointment booking for veterinary care and more. Petco said the upgrades include a focus on curbside pickup, same-day delivery, online appointment booking for veterinary care and more.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Housing mini Sephora stores within the department store chain’s larger footprint has allowed the retailer to both attract a younger (read: millennial), more product-savvy beauty consumer, while introducing its core customers to new products and brands. The strategy is also a win for the business, operationally speaking.

Retail 100

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In the face of an existential threat from e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Walmart ’s Jet.com , mall owners and real estate investment trusts with a core retail focus have explored private market investments in retail technology, e-commerce companies, and direct-to-consumer brands as a way of strengthening their core strategic business position.

Retail 55

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Consumer channels: online vs in-store. Bridging online and offline retail. E-commerce giants Amazon and Alibaba are may use big data and AI to implement end-to-end solutions that focus on the overall retail experience (both online and offline). Operations are scheduled to begin in 2018. Supply chain & logistics.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2016

But what if the truly ugly face of in-store retail’s discounting dependency could be found on the shelves of one of America’s largest brands? Could it be only a matter of time before the Raiders Of The Lost Walmart have some help from acolytes of the Temple Of Doomed Online Retailers?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

Years in the making, the regulation was born from the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in 2012, with Title IV of the act — also known as Regulation A+ — enabling average joes to invest in companies seeking capital. It’s complex to set up a portal and get it certified and create a seamless operating model.”.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Date: September 2017.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

At least right now, sources confirm that the business is being treated as a discontinued operation. Kelley noted that the firm will continue to look to acquire smaller brands that will encourage SMBs into its cloud-based software suite. Sage is not pulling out of payments in general — the company confirms that its U.K.,

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. After evaluating the vehicle, the EPA gave The Coda a fuel economy equivalence of 73 miles per gallon, the highest of any electric vehicle on the market in 2012.

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