PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2017

Contrary to what “People of Walmart” would have you believe, the big-box retailer isn’t just for one demographic of shoppers, and it’s trying to prove that by making a name for itself in the online marketplace world. Conversely, she said, “Amazon’s branding seems focused on delivery efficiency. Weiner’s Ltd.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Pepsi has had a distribution agreement in North America with Rockstar as of 2009. The move comes as Pepsi and Coca-Cola have both been moving into the energy drinks market, CNBC reported. Energy drinks comprise 92 percent of the total energy market. The market is forecasted to reach a $427 billion value in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to consumers. This isn’t Amazon’s first attempt at breaking into the luxury fashion market – the retail giant originally tried in 2012, but was not successful. Part of the problem is the eCommerce brand’s image.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The event was started in 2009 by then-Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang. It is now the biggest online shopping event in the world, rivaling that of Cyber Monday and Black Friday. as the Super Bowl for brands,” said Jiang Fan, president of Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall businesses. brands this year,” Fan said. Think of 11.11

Branding 105

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The most popular time of the day when people drink coffee isn’t just a factoid: It’s a viable marketing strategy. When the iconic Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was looking to brand its bulk Brazilian coffee in 1919, it asked consumers when they drank coffee. As JCPenney grew, so did its private brands.

Branding 119

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

The case against them, and the decision it rendered, deviated sharply from the traditional Sherman Act cases that accused companies of using their market power to raise prices to the detriment of the consumer. By 2009, A&P had shrunk in size and became a modestly sized regional chain. By 2015, it had closed its doors.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

BigCommerce , the eCommerce platform for retailing brands, announced news on Wednesday (April 25) that it has closed a $64 million round of funding. Our mission is to help every business selling online maximize success through the benefits of SaaS,” said Brent Bellm, CEO of BigCommerce.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Down the street at Altar’d State, during the store’s shutdown, employees posted videos of their clothing marketed to young women. These brands are still comfortable with their investments,” she says. If all retailers are going to market by discounting against the competition, we’re going to enter a time period that no one really wants.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

But it can keep the eCommerce giant from gaining an eMonopoly, at least as an online marketplace. Online shopping is all about where people are going,” said Frank Poore, president and CEO of CommerceHub, which helps retailers and brands sell online. Probably not. Walmart.com shoppers tend to be higher-income.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. The four-room house, which is a mere 238 square feet, was built for the brand by Modern Tiny Living.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. For brands like General Mills, that’s a good news/bad news story. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. Distribution.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

Retailers like Neiman Marcus are discovering that even high-end shoppers want a good deal, with sales of personal luxury goods falling for the first time since 2009. Online startups like Farfetch.com and Matchesfashion.com are doing their part to force more discounts. Neiman Marcus also recently abandoned plans to go public.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

But how to make that website cull more revenue, increase online and in-store traffic and tailor the experience to the customer is where data can help retailers — especially in this ever-growing omnichannel world. Maloney said that clients have exceeded online revenue growth expectations while working with the company.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The world of 2009 was starkly different, a far less optimistic place. Though the Great Recession was technically “over” by the middle of 2009, few people living in the real economy felt that fact in their daily lives. When people asked “what’s next?” in the year 1999, they were generally pretty excited to hear the answer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017. Consequently, some of Home Depot’s strength came from the overall strength of the market. billion investment in improvements across the brand. Since it was real estate that had tanked the economy, the market more or less froze solid for all but the well-capitalized.

Retail 101

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

More bankruptcies both announced ( Lucky Brand ) and rumored continue to shake the format. Further, the equity market has gone through the roof, with the S&P 500 stock index more than tripling from a low of 735 trillion in February 2009 to 2,663 trillion in February 2018.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

GlassesUSA.com , a web-based prescription eyewear dealer, launched in 2009. And for Marketplaces Manager Daniela Soibelman, who was brought on to lead the 10-year-old merchant’s foray into selling on online marketplaces, actually getting the business into the marketplace phase of its existence was harder than just flipping a switch.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. But what has changed, enabled by the advent of mobile, is the emergence of various centralized platforms that offer gig workers an easy access point to locate — and be paid for — gig jobs as they choose to take them.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

For every new path cut through the market, the retailers standing in the way are cut down. The retailer to earn the dubious distinction of first to bow out in 2016 was teen fashion brand — and staple store front of the American mall’s heyday — Wet Seal, which filed the appropriate documents on Jan. January — Wet Seal.

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Cisco

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2009 when the closing of branches trend began the U.S. banks shuttered 2,927 branches, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. Branches are a valuable component of your brand, a physical and visible symbol of safety and security of your money. had nearly 100,000 branches. In 2021 on net, U.S. No latte needed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. Mastercard and Visa handled more than 80 percent of debit transactions in 2009 — the year before the amendment passed.

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Cards Payments Security Fraud 141

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker. Fast, however, isn’t always a good thing.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

The global retail market is a trillion-dollar industry where one good decision can make you millions, and a bad one can cost you just as much,” said Julia Fowler, who co-founded the company with technologist Geoff Watts in 2009. Fowler said her experiences as a former fashion designer drove her to create the platform. and Australia.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2017

VR fashion shows that put one in the action in London or Paris or virtual fitting rooms that let online shoppers “try on” clothes virtually. InContext was early to this market and ready to build ways to provide the data in 2009.

Retail 101

Retail Branding Data Technology 101

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The Food Marketing Institute reported that about 50 percent of that spend is on perishables — stuff like meat (13 percent of that 50 percent), produce (11 percent of that 50 percent) and dairy (8 percent of that 50 percent). percent of consumer spending (assuming a median annual income of $56,516 and annual grocery spend of $4,015).

Retail 100

Retail Online Branding Innovation 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

In a recent article, Forbes itself took a look at some of the top retail players who made the annual list and the brands they’ve helped to build. Just another example of the brand doing what has mystified so many other retailers in recent years: connecting with millennials. Bettencourt’s fortune stands at $36.1

Retail 100

Retail Branding Millennials Examples 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

The real trick is to tie engaging consumer experiences to those cards, which is critical, as prepaid and reloadable cards continue to evolve — moving from plastic cards to mobile accounts that can adapt to an expanding portfolio of use cases, including payroll, online gambling or even consumer and business lending. Step back a bit first.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. 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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Online Retail San Francisco Mobile 128

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

online retailer by revenue, one of the top three online retailers by traffic and our Walmart app is among the top three apps in retail. The race with Venmo will be tough — and Venmo has a big head start, since it was first founded in 2009. We’re the second-largest U.S. eCommerce business. It processed $17.6

Data 100

Data Retail Big Data Online 100

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

It may seem like ages ago, but back in 2009 the iPhone, along with other fast-moving technologies, was taking the world by storm and changing various industries in its wake. Seven years later, Holmes tells Karen Webster that MoneyGram is a vastly different company than the one he joined in 2009.

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Mobile Technology Security Industry 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Interac ’s AVP of Online Products and Platforms Peter Maoloni explains how the landscape left a perfect opening for the company’s latest offering. In 2009, said Maoloni, the world started adopting mobile banking, and so did Interac. Now, it’s time to see if that larger scale bears out the lessons learned in the Canadian market.

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Payments System Security Course 102

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!, 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.

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Google Software Innovation Company 76

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Mike Russell, CEO of Paintzen, spoke with PYMNTS about the business, where it’s headed and why it’s like no other option in the market. So we founded a marketplace for home cleaning called MyClean in 2009. You go online and give us really simple information about your home. The business then pivoted and hasn’t looked back since.

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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

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with all the other procrastinators.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

However, as smartphones ascended to ubiquity – and on-demand sharing services like Uber (launched in 2009) became the norm – new options began to emerge. Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 31, 2017

Look at the decline in branches since 2009. I read a recent interview of Members 1st Credit Union CEO Bob Marquette by S&P Global Market Intelligence (link requires subscription). So take the pulse of your markets, and make the branches into what your customers want and will want them to be. Look at transaction counts.

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Branch Strategies DC Groups Fintech 60