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Inspire Bets $11.3B That Its Brands Can Run On Dunkin’

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Private equity-backed Inspire Brands will be buying Dunkin' Donuts and bringing it private for a whopping $11.3 Dunkin’ Brands CEO Dave Hoffmann noted the acquisition was a testament to the progress Dunkin’s had made and maintained during the global pandemic leaving the brand “stronger than ever.”. “We Inspire’s Many Brands .

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Gap Brand CEO Stepping Down

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Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. While I am pleased with our progress in brand health and product quality, we have not achieved the operational excellence and accelerated profit growth that we know is possible at Gap brand,” Gap Inc.’s

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Tracksmith: Taking DTC Running From Heartbreak Hill To The Global Market

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you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world. Matt Taylor, co-founder and CEO of running apparel brand Tracksmith has found himself and his company a little slice of Boston’s running history. Taylor said marketing activities reflect his current scale as a small D2C brand.

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Frugal Consumers Buying More Off-Brand, Off-Price Products

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This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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Buy Now, Pay Later Startup Uplift Notches $68 Million To Advance Travel Payments

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Silicon Valley buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup Uplift has closed a $68 million credit line deal with Atalaya Capital Management. . This additional financing from Atalaya solidifies Uplift's standing as the market leader in buy now, pay later for travel," Uplift CEO Brian Barth said in a Thursday (Jan. 7) press release.

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As Amazon’s Market Cap Takes Hit, Bright Spots Emerge

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trillion in market capitalization by 2024. An MKM analyst said in a research note to clients that AWS may be worth $1 trillion in six years – that would be larger than Amazon’s market cap, which currently stands at $929 billion. After (briefly) hitting $1 trillion in market cap on Sept. percent share in 2014 to the 6.4

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Wells Fargo Seeks Bidders For Private-Label Credit Card Unit

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The banking group has started reaching out to possible bidders, but still hasn’t made a definitive decision as to whether it will actually sell the unit, which specializes in store-branded credit cards, according to a Bloomberg report. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group.

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