PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

retail presence in recent decades, is reversing course and closing all its North American brick-and-mortar locations, according to numerous online news sources citing a company statement. in 2007 for $850 million, according to Bloomberg. Godiva, the maker of high-end chocolates that significantly expanded its U.S.

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Puerto Rico US New Jersey United States 287

PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new brand of sunscreen. The problem, it turned out, was that in 2007 when this project was first lifting off the ground, regulations in most states made this model basically illegal.

Branding 108

Branding San Antonio New York Leadership 108

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Dunn announced his departure following Walmart’s acquisition of his online menswear brand in 2017. He joined Walmart as senior vice president of digital consumer brands when the retail giant acquired Bonobos and was previously CEO of the brand since its inception in 2007. Bonobos laid off staff on Oct.

Branding 131

Branding Retail Leadership Company 131

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

Walmart’s online shopping spree continues — now with a new domain name for recent acquisition ShoeBuy.com. Shoes.com shut down its online sites and brick-and-mortar operations in January. Shoes.com shut down its online sites and brick-and-mortar operations in January. And another big buy is rumored to be the the way.

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New York City New York Online Leadership 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team.

Google 76

Google Software Innovation Company 76

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

The company created Neo4j — an open-source graph database technology that has become the world’s leading graph database — in 2007, and the technology now serves over 200 clients including eBay, Walmart, IBM, and NASA. EE: Neo Technology was officially founded in 2007 by CEO Emil Eifrem and CTO Johan Svensson.

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Technology Data Retail Fraud 101