PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Zara’s owner, and the world’s largest clothing retailer, Inditex , has announced that it will sell products from all of its brands on the web. “We The full online catalog will be operational by 2020. Inditex also noted that it will be rolling out in-store pickup of online orders to all 96 countries where it operates a physical store.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

To bring higher-end products to its website, Walmart had courted brands like water-filtration company Katadyn for months. As part of its efforts, the retailer gave some brands the opportunity to determine how outside sellers on the its website price and display their products. These brands are objecting because of pricing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators. In a brand new PYMNTS interview , Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo , makes the case that his search engine can win over a decent number of consumers. Social media platforms and other digital operators are scrambling to stay a step ahead of the wave.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Inditex, whose other brands include Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho and Uterqüe, revealed that sales at stores open for at least a year rose 4 percent in the six months to July 31 and that it expected comparable sales growth of 4 percent to 6 percent in the second half, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Amazon would provide the businesses with uniforms, fuel and insurance plans for fleet operations and also offer training on taxes, payroll and other small business topics. The branded vans would only be used for Amazon deliveries. He noted that Amazon expects that an operator with 20 to 40 vans would have to hire 100 drivers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Big brands have a complicated relationship with Amazon : The eCommerce retailer serves both as a potential competitor and as a retail partner that could open up new sales channels. Among others, J.Crew has joined the likes of Nike and Party City to become the latest brand to offer its products through the eCommerce site.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s not small work – and the competition is getting steeper, particularly as brands are building out ecosystems and building new types of consumer destinations, on and offline, that promise consumers the best of both worlds. 814: The number of cities in which Uber operates. $50: 50: The amount Uber users spend per week on the app.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Plant Prefab is the country’s first home factory focused on sustainable construction, materials, processes and operations. Square gets into payroll, Dunkin’ Donuts has a new name and there is fresh pessimism about the iPhone. Amazon Takes Stake in Prefab Homebuilder. Visa’s B2B Payments Tech Tested in Thailand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Apart from domestic ambiance, the store will feature more than 150 recommended products from 46 brands, including Affresh, Dyson, Instant Pot, Simple Pleasures and Xbox. “We We are one of the largest female-facing media brands, and we really wanted our entire audience to be able to interact with this.”. “We

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who haven’t seen the news earlier this week, here’s what happened: Amazon reported that its online B2B operation , which launched in 2015 and is officially called Amazon Business, has achieved more than $10 billion in annualized sales — with more than half of those sales coming from third-party sellers using the company’s platform.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

PayPal and iZettle brands and operations will be held separate as agreed with the CMA, pending completion of the CMA’s review.”. PayPal said that it is “working cooperatively with the CMA as it conducts its review.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Taxify, the Estonian-based ride-hailing company, is launching a new brand of e-scooters, dubbed Bolt. It also provides the car makers with an opportunity to sell vehicles to fleet operators. Taxify is focused on operating a network of vehicles and wants leadership help from Daimler.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was hired by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 to be the world’s first female telephone switchboard operator. Fearful of giving up ground to a tech intermediary — Apple , Google , Amazon — many OEMs are working with third parties to develop their own branded apps and connected in-dash experiences.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Most might assume the brand was some kind of social media experience for bakers, or perhaps an eCommerce venture built around vanity confections. “GlamScout also offers users a ‘Glam Look’ and a ‘Glam Look for Less,’ the first with prestige brands and the other with mass brands.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Transparency is “sunshine,” he added, saying that transparency will lead to suppliers applying better, tighter, self-governing principles to their food operations. However, blockchain could now represent a new digital counterweight to those risks, putting that mother’s mind at ease.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million bike and electric scooter rides in the 14 months it has been in service, while Bird , which is focused on e-scooters, provided more than 10 million rides in its first 12 months of operations. Earlier this month, Taxify, the Estonian-based ride-hailing company, announced it is launching a new brand of e-scooters, dubbed Bolt.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“Cornershop’s digital expertise, technology and capabilities will strengthen our successful businesses in Mexico and Chile and provide learning for other markets in which we operate. This is an opportunity to leverage both of our brands, as well as Walmart’s strong supply chain and store network.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A highly regional grocery store chain, it’s only known in the six states where it actually operates. In 2015, Safeway took over three Albertsons stores and poured $30 million in bringing the West Coast brand to Publix country. It’s not a new brand experience — Publix offers GreenWise produce, meats and non-food items, like tissues.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

20), one centered around its Alexa voice-assistant technology, and one of the main themes that came out of that Seattle event is a reminder of how badly the eCommerce operator wants to live inside your house and vehicles. Amazon put on a product pageant on Thursday (Sept. More on that in just a bit …. By the way, your living room light is on.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“As a longtime destination for dining and housewares, we know that our customers love to entertain, and incorporating food and beverage offerings is a natural extension of the Crate & Barrel brand,” CEO Montgomery said in the email. The results, according to the report, have been mixed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

While Paytm Mall had been in operation only 14 months when it reached a $1 billion valuation, reports noted that the company was a spin-off, bolstering the startup with brand recognition from the start. Udaan confirmed the investment in a tweet on Tuesday.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Alexa service is now operating normally,” Amazon said in a statement to Reuters. The number of brands using Alexa also increased from 1,200 to over 3,500 during the same eight-month period. The report noted the complaints of Alexa not working starting happening at around 8:00 a.m.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Koupon Media’s expertise to provide access to CPG-funded programs will benefit C-store brands that leverage individual customer data to deliver relevant, compelling and profitable offers.”. There is a host of things the brand can’t determine with all that much accuracy by just watching who comes in and out of the store.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Customized clothing and automation generally don’t exist comfortably in the same sentence, let alone in the same retail operation. Brands that are over-producing to meet uncertain consumer need are creating an environmental problems, as their products are filling landfills. The issue the firm was created to solve was waste inventory.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Ether, for instance, seems to have dropped in value, just as many organizations that had previously raised funds in Ether via ICO “cash out” so as to finance their operations and pay for expenses, Bloomberg said. This week, U.S. “Crypto is very different from the traditional startup world,” he said.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two major news items have came out of the world of wellness this month: Hershey announced a $420M acquisition of Pirate Brands, the maker of Pirate’s Booty. Hershey will operate Pirate Brands under Amplify Snack Brands, the healthy snacking business it acquired in Dec’17 for $1.6B.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Among the participants in that race is Xevo , an automotive software supplier whose technology is already deployed in some 25 million vehicles worldwide, including such brands as Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac and Buick. When drivers leave the dealership, the app with that functionality is already on their phones.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. As consumer demand rises, businesses are buying into the trend.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

That’s generally good news for, say, luxury brands and low-priced merchants such as Old Navy , but bad news for retailers such as Bon-Ton , which recently filed for bankruptcy after struggling for years with decreasing sales and mall traffic. Merchants serving the middle experienced a 2 percent revenue gain during that same period.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Before taking over as CEO at Strava, Qualres ran business operations at Instagram, and before that he was at Facebook. million fitness classes and wellness services offered daily via the MINDBODY app and MINDBODY branded apps and websites. Quarles is new to his job, having come on board last spring, but he is not new to social media.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Amazon said Alexa Guard will operate as part of select Echo devices later this year. Alexa will also be expanding the gadgets where she lives — Amazon is rolling out a new smart microwave Amazon Basics brand. Alexa is also set to develop and act on “Hunches” soon. And Alexa isn’t the only Amazon feature scheduled for a growth spurt.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Long-neglected contact center operations are finally getting attention from the C-suite. With strong brand recognition and integration with its telephony infrastructure offerings, Cisco’s Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) platform has been a natural pick for bank CIOs for years.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

25, Inspire Brands announced plans to acquire drive-in restaurant chain Sonic for $2.3B. Roark formed holding company Inspire Brands in Feb’18 after facilitating Arby’s $2.9B Shedding unhealthy brand images. acquisition of Buffalo Wild Wings). We’ve mapped out Roark’s current food holdings below.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

UATP is owned by more than two dozen airlines and operated on their behalf. After 83 years in business, UATP is spreading its payment wings and leveraging its rails and connections to airlines to enable payment via a method other than its own branded service.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Operations – they carry out the strategy. They operate efficiently and adhere to agreed SLAs. Key skills: Apart from the obvious high numeracy and analytical ability, they need to be goal-focused, whether that goal is predicting the fraud risk on a new channel/brand/marketing campaign or optimizing rule and queue performance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Over the last nine years, Uber has built a thick supply of drivers and equally thick demand from consumers for their services in the 814 cities in which it now operates. In 2016, Uber launched Local Offers with Visa , and in 2017, it launched the Uber co-branded Visa card issued by Barclays. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Operations – they carry out the strategy. They operate efficiently and adhere to agreed SLAs. Key skills: Apart from the obvious high numeracy and analytical ability, they need to be goal-focused, whether that goal is predicting the fraud risk on a new channel/brand/marketing campaign or optimizing rule and queue performance.

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