CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Why the shift?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. And that’s just accessing money itself.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2013. Coda Automotive sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in May 2013, and announced it was restructuring its business as a battery technology company. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Founded: 2009.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

And a set of problems with some very pointed implications for everyone in payments, retail and commerce whose ambition it is to capture the purchasing power of this coveted generation. Chetty and his team did that by gaining access to the anonymized tax returns of people in their mid-30s over a 40-year period between 1940 and 1980.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. The networks are happy because they are the proud recipients of tons of brand new transaction volume.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. In an interview in 2013 , Founder and then-CEO Renaud Laplanche boasted that incumbent banks like Chase were “like Blockbuster Video” in a world in which tech and new lending models like LendingClub’s would bury them. A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2013, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw an opportunity in Nokia, a Finnish phone company that was losing ground to competitors. Date: May 20, 2013. The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology. Yahoo and Tumblr.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Facebook Phone, Facebook (2013). Google Glass, Google (2013-2014). Satisfries, Burger King (2013). State of Innovation Report.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

The Macro was allegedly used from Zenefits’ inception in 2013 until the summer of 2015, when Zenefits’ board was first alerted to its use. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. The Outcome. Total Funding: $240M.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It had a great brand. In 2013, Buffett reported that GEICO had generated $73B for Berkshire Hathaway in one year — a significant single year return for a company that it cost Buffett just $2.3B Companies have both tangible assets (factories, capital, inventory) and intangible assets, which include things like reputation and brand.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As of 2013, 70% of millennials believed that the way that people purchase things would be totally different in 5 years, and 33% believed that one day they won’t need a bank at all. In 2016, Goldman Sachs introduced its own online bank offering, Marcus, with an aesthetic and brand promise very similar to challenger banks.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Built a workflow for the bank so the bank can approve payment and see all compliance and tax information. Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Product Launch: September 2013. Founded: May 2007.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The “traditional M&A” was often driven by a desire to boost EPS (earnings per share), with companies seeking to combine assets with a similar business, merging with a business in a lower-tax jurisdiction, or looking to gain desirable assets owned by other businesses. Michael Bumkeun Cho, portfolio manager at Samsung Asset Management.

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