PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

Any competitors in the market who want to challenge the application have 30 days to do so. The European Commission claimed the sales involved licensed merchandise from Manchester United, FC Barcelona and AS Roma, among other names, and took place from 2004 to 2017, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Not until 2004 did cannabis become legal for non-medical use in certain areas of the country. One company that’s looking to capitalize on the cannabis market is startup on-demand delivery company greenRush. Through highly technical SEO expertise and digital marketing, they became the largest player in that space.

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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.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Although it is credited with being one of the first companies to offer wedding and bridal party dresses online, J.Crew’s e-store is ending its love affair with the bridal business, which was among the first of its kind when it launched back in 2004. According to the New York Times, the retailer may have been a victim of its own success.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

In the face of tough European and North American retail markets last year, the company’s sales fell for the first time since 2004, taking an 8 percent plunge to 35 billion Danish crowns ($5.8 The struggle has led some toy manufacturers to reconsider doing business with the retailer at all.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The bold-yellow-lettering-on-blue-background-adorned movie rental stores that dotted the American landscape throughout the 1990s — Gothamist notes that, as late as 2004, there were around 9,000 Blockbuster locations in business across the country — now number a scant 51 independently operated franchises. It’s not the same as it used to be.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

as one of seven major retailers who could face bankruptcy over the next two years, Sears CEO Eddie Lampert apparently felt the need to write a public blog post stating that the company had no plans to shut its Kmart stores , despite rumors to the contrary. A week after a report from Fitch Ratings named Sears Holding Corp.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. and leading the field when it came to introducing mobile order-ahead to the market. Really outside the box, as it turns out.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Almost twenty-two years later, another startup founded in 2004 in a living room (of sorts) — a dorm on the campus of Harvard University — could end up being eBay’s most promising buyer ever: Facebook. But it would be over the next four years that eBay would find itself increasingly pulled into a riptide of changing market dynamics.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

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. The Famicom Console.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

He was named executive producer of ABC's "Good Morning America" in 2004. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected." ~ Sun Tzu Don't fight PNC at PNC Park, playing their brand of ball. What a word to associate with your brand! He left the show in 2006 but returned as president of ABC News in 2010.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year. Bankruptcy claims a marquee name in tyke-focused retailing, as the Amazon effect continues. Market power is the story that explains everything.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005. The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. billion business, representing 64 percent of the home video entertainment market.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

The experts at Triad Retail Media are there to make sure that happens. Triad customizes and manages digital media programs to transform busy websites like Walmart.com into publishing properties that benefit the advertising brands, host retailers, and shoppers who use them with a perfectly calibrated pitch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

From there, they went into the mainstream consumer market with a more sophisticated customer segmentation they called “information-based strategies” to become a top-five consumer credit lender. I went to the big box retailer’s location near where the flat occurred to get it fixed under the warranty.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

But this week, his new multi-year contract gives him a coveted spot as a headliner on one of Nike’s “Just Do It” ad campaigns, as well as a branded line of Kaepernick shoes and apparel. And embracing a controversial ad campaign is something of a mixed bag for brands that try it. When it hits, it can be a very powerful tool.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The country was home to one of the world’s first mobile commerce innovations with the DotCoMo mobile wallet all the way back in 2004. It’s just a very different cultural market,” Abrahamson said in talking about Bain’s participation this week in a Series E funding round for hey , a Japanese eCommerce and digital payments platform.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 1, 2017

’s fashionable retailers such as Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge. ” Tappy CEO and founder Wayne Leung added, “Supported by its existing global customer network and influenced by the brand effect of Visa and Barclaycard, Tappy’s solution will open new horizons for the traditional watch and jewelry industry.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

McKibbin, who are affiliated with Korea University and The Australian National University, said “just calculating the number of canceled tourist trips, declines in retail trade and similar factors is not enough to get the full impact of SARS” because of the linkages within and between economies and sectors. percent to 4.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

When it comes to retail bankruptcies, do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news: In a marked departure from the months preceding it, no major retailers filed for bankruptcy protection this week. Bankruptcies. Bankruptcies. Store Closures. Like Chapter 11 filings, store closures also had a mildly quiet week.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

This marketing promotion seeks to recreate the success of the brand’s 2014–2015 U.S. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. No small businesses in those areas means no SMB jobs in those markets. Here’s a question: Does the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

retail, the first products they sold were diamonds, watches and jewelry – exactly where Tiffany started 39 years prior. The subsequent rise, dominance and fall of Sears is a well-known and well-covered story, but suffice to say it has been quite a long time since it was thought of as primarily a catalog retailer.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” ( 2004 ). Market volatility. It had a great brand. He increased his holdings dramatically during the bear market of the mid-70s when GEICO was struggling. For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.” ( 2005 ). “Be

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. The customer is more empowered than ever, and as a retailer, that means you’re never safe from your competition.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The average millennial student debt load was $10,600 as of 2017 — about 2X more than what was owed by Gen X in 2004. Traditional banks like Chase and Bank of America are increasingly battling for market share with a new class of competitor: neobanks. And millennial preferences are leading the way. Passive investing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. That just makes the point much stronger. Consider this.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Retailers need to train front line staff IMMEDIATELY on EMV card etiquette and nanny consumers through the new UX. Those that don’t risk lost business from shoppers associating their brand with an embarrassing checkout experience. Nonetheless, even if it is four elephants, that’s still a long time while you’re in limbo.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. David Novak, the former CEO of Yum Brands, recently stated that Crystal Pepsi was developed to reinforce consumer interest in purity and health.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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