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MAY 8, 2018

Daraz was founded by Rocket Internet in 2012 and has since expanded across five South Asian markets, including Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal and, of course, its home country of Pakistan. Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba has acquired Daraz , Pakistan’s most popular online shopping destination, thus expanding its empire into South Asia.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Mattress Firm , seeking to shore up its operations and get rid of store leases, is reportedly gearing up for a bankruptcy filing. The company, which is based in Texas, has 3,000 brick-and-mortar stores, Reuters reported. Sources close to the matter told Reuters that the process would likely take only a few months.

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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. Jumia currently operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt. Its data shows that the company processed more than 13 million packages last year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

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. But Elizabeth and James, it seems, has another ride left in it – albeit in a very different venue than it has known before. “Our ” Will it work?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. This sort of placement has kept many luxury fashion brands away, even though Amazon has promised to not discount their items.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

With simple packaging that is nondescript by design and an ethos that values simplicity and quality above all, Brandless has made quite a name for itself in the short time it has been on the market since it was founded in 2012.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

Drug company Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is shedding four of its brands — three skincare and one cancer treatment business — and experts say it’s good money, considering what the company original bought those brands for. French cosmetics company L’Oréal is purchasing three skincare brands from Valeant for $1.3

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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. and Australia. .

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Data from Coresight shows that 9,300 stores shuttered in 2019, the most since 2012, the first year the information was tracked, FT said. Online Brands. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. Overall retail sales from Nov. 24 were up 3.4

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It offered high-end, private-label clothes as well as national men’s clothing brands in regular shipments for people who signed up. The department store chain relied on Bombfell to handle the logistics of the operation. . The company wants to focus more on profitable apparel sales, and also move away from appliances. On Tuesday (Feb.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the home alone, Amazon reported 100,000 smart home products from over 9,500 brands. “It In 2012, for example, Amazon attempted to break into the luxury fashion market, but it didn’t quite take off. Currently, there are 12 brands participating in the luxury launch , according to Amazon, all of which will get individual roll outs.

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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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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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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. Just like 2012, with the launch of MCX and CurrentC merchant-branded, ACH-linked mobile payments products.

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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? Cybersecurity.

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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. The Berlin-based company’s value stood at about $1.7 billion, according to reports.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“While small in number, these reviews can significantly undermine the trust that consumers and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers place in Amazon, which in turn tarnishes Amazon’s brand,” Amazon said in a complaint it filed against those reviewers. Power of Reviews.

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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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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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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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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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JUNE 11, 2020

A company called Buy It Installed , which launched in 2012, is ready to help the less skilled consumer with the task. Buy It Installed also owns and operates the Craftsman Republic network, which consists of brand-certified installation professionals across the nation. That network is another value proposition for the company.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

While social media platforms, if utilized effectively , can be beneficial for any retail business, those with an established brand obviously have a leg-up — in terms of financial assets, infrastructure and reach — on more nascent companies in their ability to quickly turn social presence into profit.

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MAY 22, 2020

An initial explosion of online orders left Amazon overwhelmed, forcing the company to temporarily reprioritize its operation toward mostly delivering key household items. Crucible,” which is free to play, is the first big-budget game that Amazon Game Studios has released since the unit’s 2012 launch.

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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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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 is really two businesses operating under one roof — connected in crucial ways, but separate in function.

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JULY 26, 2016

Launched in March 2012, DSC rode the waves created by its clever marketing to thumb its metaphorical nose at entrenched businesses stuck in outdated retail models. How that growth might come about is less clear, especially since the two brands would seem to operate on different models.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The mobile app Drizly , for instance, has been letting customers order alcohol via their smart devices since 2012, adding investors and new areas of service over the intervening years. It now operates in 70 American cities, as well as two in Canada.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

The Hassell Law Group represented Ava Bird in a 2012 personal injury case for three months. Recent changes at Facebook, for instance, are forcing direct-to-consumer brands to rethink their advertising spend with the social media operator, lest they get lost in the flood of other content or reveal too much to competitors.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

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. Managing cash flow can be tricky work when one is new to the market or looking to expand because cash is in short supply.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

The meal kit business has evolved a bit since Blue Apron and some of its initial rivals got started during the 2011-2012 period. Plated , which launched in 2012, was acquired by Albertson’s for $300 million in 2017. The firm, which has mainly operated in the Western U.S.,

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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 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, 2017

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. It’s complex to set up a portal and get it certified and create a seamless operating model.”.

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