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

APRIL 19, 2019

In fairness, because not everyone can buy a Birkin directly, its value tends to increase on the resale market, sometimes quite dramatically. Toward the end of last year, Elizabeth and James announced it would be shutting down its stores and in-house operations – another middle-market victim of the great retail reset.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Innovation is one of the keys to advancement — and that increasingly means opening tech hubs, incubators and other such operations. Retailers and brands regularly announced their intention to up their game — and provide those treasured consumer experiences instead of mere transactions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Founded in 2012, Jumia also became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. We’re really focused on growing our existing business, leadership position, number of sellers and consumer adoption in those markets,” Poignonnec said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties.

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Independent Banker

JULY 30, 2015

An interview with Chris Lorence, ICBA’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Meet ICBA’s Marketing and Communications Contact. Chris Lorence is responsible for continuously fortifying ICBA’s brand and refining the association’s voice to stay consistently relevant with members and policymakers. Chris Lorence.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The company also announced Nina Barjesteh as the new marketing chief and the creation of a new position of chief customer officer. Rue21’s new strategy includes opening 40 new stores, giving 100 current stores a facelift and focusing on branding. Data from Factset showed a dip in the bond price from $0.35 to less than $0.29.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In the face of an existential threat from e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Walmart ’s Jet.com , mall owners and real estate investment trusts with a core retail focus have explored private market investments in retail technology, e-commerce companies, and direct-to-consumer brands as a way of strengthening their core strategic business position.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Founded in 2012, Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. Jumia operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt. retailers online in markets across Africa, according to reports. Jumia Scope.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

But Walmart had some tech upgrades of its own to announce, and the company was the source of some of the week’s more interesting speculation as market watchers began to openly wonder if it could be the buyer that GrubHub may (or may not) be looking for. In the home alone, Amazon reported 100,000 smart home products from over 9,500 brands. “It

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

A company called Buy It Installed , which launched in 2012, is ready to help the less skilled consumer with the task. Here’s how it works: Suppose a consumer in San Diego is in the market for a bike rack to store several bikes in a garage. That network is another value proposition for the company.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Not only that, but “Verishop is launching with roughly 150 brands — and growing — already signed on.” The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. And that’s at a time when traditional department store chains’ bricks-and-mortar stores are struggling.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

The Hassell Law Group represented Ava Bird in a 2012 personal injury case for three months. Beyond the implications of negative reviews and political speech, companies face other challenges in the race to control their digital marketing efforts. She dropped the case because of her mother and seeming lack of work ethic.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yes, I know that for many of you, especially in California, this is old news and standard operating procedure – but hear me out. The specific issue that I’m referring to is merchant surcharging – a fancy term to describe the fee charged by merchants when consumers use network-branded card products to pay for their purchases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Founded in 2012 in Los Angeles, the digital marketing firm works to bridge (hence the name) the gap so that the various communications don’t fall into the void. “We Bridge has a two-tiered approach to cracking the loyalty market: Identify the right targets and then aim wide when approaching on digital channel.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Since 2012, Luxembourg-based holding group JAB Holding has been quietly consolidating US coffee businesses under its umbrella. JAB, which does not disclose its financial information and tends not to speak to the press, began its coffee shopping spree by acquiring Peet’s Coffee and Tea in 2012. in September 2017. in July 2017.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Managing cash flow can be tricky work when one is new to the market or looking to expand because cash is in short supply. CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. The first is focus.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

For that matter, who would have guessed that Dollar Shave Club, the viral sensation famous as much for its commercials as for its inexpensive men’s grooming products, would have made the headway in the market that it did? Or, at least, that’s how the story used to go.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”. We want to drive customers to come back to us and interact with our brand,” Song said.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For those unfamiliar, mBank is a Polish direct bank brand established by BRE Bank in 2000 as one of the first of its kind in the country. Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

billion market to a $5 billion market by the end of 2017, as independent startups entered the business only to find supermarket chains and big box stores entering the mix. The meal kit business has evolved a bit since Blue Apron and some of its initial rivals got started during the 2011-2012 period. Market Casualties.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

But outside of the government, the financial services market has, in many ways, been working to play its own part in helping small businesses gain access to funding. “It will transform the business funding market and is a real step [toward] change for small businesses.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

When Panera Bread first rolled out its mobile order-ahead service in 2012, the idea was to attract consumers wary of waiting in lines for service. Panera Bread, which operates 2,024 locations in the U.S. Understanding customers and their needs has been crucial to devising mobile order-ahead efforts since 2012. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was hired by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 to be the world’s first female telephone switchboard operator. Fearful of giving up ground to a tech intermediary — Apple , Google , Amazon — many OEMs are working with third parties to develop their own branded apps and connected in-dash experiences.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 29, 2016

In 2006, when the median asset size within my firm's profitability outsourcing service was $696 million, the operating cost per business checking account was $586 per year. billion, and the operating cost per business checking account is $710. Idea : Develop objective analyses for entering markets. Make it near-automatic.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. Tech companies are chipping away at the traditional bank’s market share. Sales and trading operations within banks can be lucrative.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Here we measure firm size primarily using a firm’s product market share, i.e. the sales of a given firm as a proportion of total sales in its industry. But we observe the same patterns when using stock market capitalisation or the number of employees as proxies of firm size. Figure 1: UK listed firm stock prices during 2020.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

Regulation A+ has made a mostly quiet splash on the market. Years in the making, the regulation was born from the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in 2012, with Title IV of the act — also known as Regulation A+ — enabling average joes to invest in companies seeking capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. Big Debate Of The Week: Did Amazon’s Estimated Online Market Share Just Drop? market share. Badly,” he wrote.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

Case in point: Soundtrack Your Brand, which raised $11 million last week to provide retail stores with a music soundtrack service — not exactly the showcase for investor support of business FinTech. Since its launch in 2012, the firm said it has facilitated $178 million worth of invoice financing to local SMEs. B2B ePayments.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While India-based Blume Ventures takes the lead for most active venture capital investor in the country, corporate and CVC deals to the tech sector have risen every year since 2012. We used CB Insights data to dive deep into the activity of the top ten most active corporate investors into the country from 2012 to 9/19/17.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

It’s a huge market, presumably one marked by hundreds of millions of consumers who like to eat and would like the convenience of meal delivery. Yet the continued capital investments (regardless of the firm in the delivery space) shows that even with commitment of time and money, brand loyalty is no given. Why leave China?

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CB Insights

AUGUST 15, 2018

Constellation Brands is betting big on cannabis. The US beer market has faced strong headwinds over the last year, with overall beer sales dropping by 1% in 2017. Craft beer has been a major topic on big brewers’ earnings calls since 2012, with a record 95 mentions during Q1’17. Cider brands.

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