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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The move means that the company will end its JV that has been in place since 2013 with Yoox Net-A-Porter, which as the newswire stated helps third-party brands develop sites. By 2020, Kering will bring full control of its luxury brands online through its own internal activities, which include building tech teams, said Reuters.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Payfort , an Amazon company set up in 2013 to help with payments throughout the Arab world, will be offering the new option through its online payment gateway, according to the report. Trust and convenience are key when it comes to payment methods, and we will continue innovating on behalf of our customers in this space.".

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

Like many innovators starting out, BarkBox cofounder and CEO Matt Meeker was a man looking to solve his own problem. And that enthusiasm for their first product pushed BarkBox to expand more than its user base in its early days; it’s also shifted its brand. And his problem was a Great Dane named Hugo. “I

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2012, with the launch of MCX and CurrentC merchant-branded, ACH-linked mobile payments products. And what was the product?

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MARCH 6, 2019

Corelle Brands has been around for a while — like 100 years. By today’s standards, it looks anything like an innovative brand. But then, looks can be deceiving — 100 years ago, Corning Glass Works had just introduced a massive innovation into the lives of home cooks everywhere. A New Kind Of Pothead.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

“The subscription commerce market is undergoing a dramatic shift as consumer purchasing behaviors are quickly evolving to expect flexible, pay-as-you-go models from their favorite brands,” CEO Dan Burkhart said in a statement per the outlet. “We In separate news, Bank of America Merchant Services announced a partnership with Recurly in May.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

And while people like yogurt — apparently, a lot — until very recently, it was not a product anyone really thought much about or tried to innovate. It was apparently the yogurt innovation the American public didn’t know it needed. yogurt sales in 2013. Innovation-Minded. Considering the average unit of yogurt in the U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Buy online, pick-up in store (BOPIS), according to the brand, has been critical in pushing that boost. Since she joined Nordstrom is 2013, Kim’s main role has been recruiting new customers by making Nordstrom a destination for fashion inspiration and brands that can’t be easily found elsewhere.

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JULY 11, 2018

The fraud happened from 2008 until he was fired in 2013, noted the report. Falkowski was sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison for being the brains behind a $1 million fraud scam. The sentencing comes about a year after QVC snapped up rival HSN for $2,6 billion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When Kohl’s decided to bring Amazon into its store locations about a year ago, many commentators wondered if the brand had made a big mistake. Gass’ hope is to help push the Kohl’s base lower, as she is looking to draw millennial customers to the brand as their new go-to location for merchandise of all kinds.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The brand has dubbed the recycled-luxe aesthetic “rawthentic modernity.”. According to NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business , “50 percent of CPG growth from 2013 to 2018 came from sustainability-marketed products.”. percent in 2013, and delivered nearly $114 billion in sales, up 29 percent from 2013. Of those, 12.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The initiatives will take advantage of Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband tech to not only provide innovative AR products, but content and new ways for people to communicate. Our strategy is to partner with the best brands to ensure our customers have exclusive access to cutting edge technology and services. Fashionable Looks. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As billion in 2013, representing a 2.10 Even if one particular retail chain or another is having trouble keeping its edge amid such changes, apparel as a whole is driving a good amount of merchant innovation.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

. “Our software supports banks and credit unions, often with legacy systems that make true innovation extremely challenging, in bringing brand-new products to market at an unprecedented speed.”. Raisin , which is backed by PayPal, was founded in Berlin in 2013 and has raised about $200 million in funding from investors.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

” The hardest hit brands originate in the U.S. The report estimates that the overall value of global counterfeit goods at $461 billion in 2013. While China is the top provenance of fake goods, its most innovative companies also fall victim to counterfeiters. Yes, that is trillion with a “T.”

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Historically, strong above-the-line advertising and brand-building have kept banks ahead, along with ever increasing focus on the in-branch experience. Banks need to join the battle, and win, if they’re to unite their above-the-line and digital marketing and deliver consistently on their brand promise across all channels.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

But] we’ve been around since 2013 … and we’ve been growing year over year. Innovation By The Boatload. “Because of COVID, it feels like people are discovering [boating] for the first time,” he said. “[But] It’s often said that the two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day she buys the boat and the day she sells it.

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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 28, 2017

Given this addition to the amount of alcohol consumers, there were 485 million people of drinking age in 2013. One area that’s seeing a major boon is the rise of domestic beer brands. From microbreweries to alcohol delivery apps, there is no shortage of India startups that are looking to cash in on the lucrative liquor market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. After doing some research on suppliers, the duo found quite a staggering gap between wholesale and retail prices in watch brands.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Jeff Binder, CEO of Layer3, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “We’re the first cable company in … 10 years to come that’s brand new. Consumers haven’t had a young innovative company to provide [pay TV] services to them since the mid-1990s, when Dish and DirectTV came on the scene.”.

Washington 100

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MARCH 20, 2019

” APEXX CEO Peter Keenan said, according to reports, “There is a huge appetite for international brands in Russia and eCommerce growth is higher there than across the rest of Europe. As a result, it is “possible to route all transactions back to the issuing bank.”

Mobile 108

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Thank Jenna Lyons, the innovator behind the shockingly persistent trend. The New York Times declared Jenna Lyons “ the woman who dresses America ” in 2013, the same year she was named to Time’s 100 Most Influential list. I don’t think my own brand is in the cards. Lyons wasn’t just a mass market phenomenon.

Branding 108

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

I don’t see enough brands that are really breaking boundaries for plus-size fashion, that are actually designing for plus-size bodies, or for a diversity of shapes,” Kat Eves, a Los Angeles-based stylist who works exclusively with plus-size men and women, told The Wall Street Journal. But The Limited didn’t want it.

Marketing 135

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William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Now in its 23 rd year, the conference featured more than 20 technology providers and rallied together innovators from across the globe to discuss how financial institutions can better engage with business customers… and the timing couldn’t be better. The company recently surpassed $1 billion in loan requests since it was established in 2013.

Conference 40

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. 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. May — Aéropostale.

Retail 100

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JANUARY 31, 2019

A collaboration between Aamir Baig, Fraser Hall and twins Sam and Andy Prochazka, the Vancouver-based company launched in May 2013 after the four came up with the idea over pancakes at an IHOP. The brand designs and manufactures furniture which it sells direct to consumers digitally. We started chatting and looking at this industry.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The 2013 holiday season then began to show signs of the shift to online and digital, and away from brick-and-mortar retail. The first three quarters of 2013 showed eCommerce sales growth of 17.4 I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail.

Retail 309

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Travel tech is a well-established category but startups are still bringing innovation to the space and attracting financing. Using CB Insights data, we ranked the most active investors into unique travel tech startups since 2013, including venture capital and corporate venture investors. Car-hailing services are excluded. First Name.

Denver 68

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While Yahoo can’t seem to shake the consequences of its massive data breach, Costco may have finally gotten things right with its co-branded credit card, and IBM is keeping its eye on the blockchain prize. The road to a co-branded credit card has been a bumpy one for Costco. million American Express co-branded cards, “about 7.5

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JANUARY 28, 2019

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. Innovation by Any Other Name. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new. Back here in the U.S.,

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NCR

MAY 9, 2017

But technology innovators and financial institutions have worked together for generations. Bankrate’s conversion of the Quizzle app (purchased from Quicken Loans in 2016) to Score & Report, white-labeled for use by community banks and credit unions, enables a branded and cost effective solution for quick adoption of new technology.

Fintech 75

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

But he didn’t know what exactly he wanted to go into business doing, until a bit of chance snacking put him on the path to his innovation “ah-ha moment.”. The brand stayed on campus for two years building its market and establishing its name.

Rhode Island 129

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. percent in 2013, totaling $308 billion.

Retail 198

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