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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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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

And then what happened in 2004-06 happened again. The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Cost of funds is leveling off now.

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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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Generation Z Is Passing On Driver’s Licenses. Here’s How The Auto Insurance Market Is Being Affected

CB Insights

Lets talk about the intensely competitive auto insurance market. Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in the P&C market and strategies to watch for 2019. Power estimates that Gen Zers will purchase about 120,000 fewer new vehicles this year compared with millennials in 2004.

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How Madewell Is Growing Up, And Reshaping Its Parent Firm

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Crew since its glory days back in 2004. Crew in the affections of many millennials, but Wadle mostly dismisses that classification. Madewell’s appeal, she noted, expands far outside the millennial demographic, largely bolstered by its holistic approach to viewing consumers and their feedback.

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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. ” Four years later, “Food, Inc.” ” hit the silver screen.

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Have Pillow, Will Trade? How Digital Is Stirring A New Age Of Bartering

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Granted, IBW is not exactly an organic event – similar to Prime Day , it seems to be more of a marketing event, focused mostly on bread-and-breakfast experiences. Generally, trading in this manner is done through online auctions and swap markets.”. But it does serve to shine a spotlight on bartering, and in a big way.

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