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How Millennials Are Propelling Halloween To New Retail Heights

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That growth appears to be driven by millennials, with responses to a recent Citibank poll indicating survey participants between the ages of 18 and 36 expect to spend 2.5 Increased millennial spending comes despite the fact that the demographic is the one that most needs to save money, CitiBank noted in the article. billion, up 8.3

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Cereal Makers Aim To Move From Sweet Tooth To Healthy Profit

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So get ready for quirky marketing, quirkier products, retro strategies and decidedly futuristic pricing as the business contends with a downturn. cereal market has lagged recently, with a slight uptick in 2019. Nutritional content is a primary concern for new product development in mature markets such as North America and Europe.

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How Madewell Is Growing Up, And Reshaping Its Parent Firm

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When J.Crew notched 1 percent same-store sales growth last month, it was a cause for celebration – particularly for a brand that has been somewhat stalled for the last several years. Once ascendant among young working professionals, the brand has boosted its efforts to keep up with the times. Crew since its glory days back in 2004.

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Taco Bell Embraces Fast Food’s New Decadent Reality

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In 2004, documentarian Morgan Spurlock released “Super Size Me.” It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu. Brands subsidiary? ” Four years later, “Food, Inc.”

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Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

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And before there was Chase, there was LevelUp, the branded mobile payments platform that used those same cube-shaped readers to enable QR code payments at the physical POS for consumers with the LevelUp app. Brands franchisees who are now being asked to get on board the Grubhub delivery platform. In February of 2018, Yum!

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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Noom’s New Approach To Solving The Obesity Epidemic

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percent to 4 percent since 2001-2004; severe obesity has expanded from 6 percent of urban females to 8 percent. And working to capture a piece of that $60 billion market – and hopefully help to boost its success rate to somewhere north of 20 percent – is Noom. Urban men’s severe obesity rate has climbed from 2.4

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