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Fat Brain Toys Navigates Pandemic With Agile Business Model

PYMNTS

On one side are the manufacturers and retailers that are waiting for the licensed products that drive the big sales. Fat Brain is an independent toy retailer that has navigated the pandemic with an agile business model and an emphasis on learning. Another factor that differentiates Fat Brain from its retail peers is marketing.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. What caused a dot-com bubble?

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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Microsoft was incredibly confident in the product, as were many big names in the early 2000s market: Acer, Compaq, Fujitsu and Toshiba all promised to put out versions of the Microsoft Tablet PC by 2002. The Famicom did not have an easy entry into the market. ” That is not quite how the story turned out.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. a leading producer of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports in China. Google and Motorola.

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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Amazon/Whole Foods is the newest district in the Grocery Hunger games – the combination of two smaller efforts (Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market) made possible by Amazon’s $13.7 online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. District 1: Amazon/Whole Foods.

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The Sharpie’s Indelible Mark On Commerce (And, Well, #SharpieGate)

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The Sharpie has been around since 1964, when it was introduced to the world as a brand name for the permanent marker brought to market by Sanford Ink Company. But it was also a unique product, as the first pen-style permanent marker ever on the market. An Unexpected Retail Boost . Campaign Manager Brad Parscale tweeted.

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