PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?” The list goes on.

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. Here is how different industries are innovating with subscriptions. in Q1 2018 to 64.0 in Q2 2018.The

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

No, the only way you can get your hands on these “exclusive” bad boys is if you follow Warby Parker on Snapchat , where the brand shared a Snapchat story with its followers containing a URL taking users to a page where they could purchase the super-limited edition frames, according to TechCrunch. This is a Snapchat exclusive, after all.)”.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The automotive market is surging during the pandemic, and companies like Carvana are reaping the benefits. The company reported a stellar third quarter as used cars and contactless delivery are driving the market. Fast And Furious: Used Car Sales Surge For Carvana During Pandemic.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. and its subsidiary BofI Federal Bank aspire to be the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to their competitors, branch-based or otherwise. BofI Holding, Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

That enthusiasm for design in general first led Royer to be an early worker for bespoke men’s clothing firm Bonobos — but even back in his clothing days, he held onto a lasting fascination with the furniture market in general, and sofas in particular. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

Realizing the market has not yet come up with a good method to fix the problem, they decide to build their own solution and solve the problem for everyone. And Phillips, on the eve of founding his dessert delivery on-demand business SugarMoo in 2014, had two problems to solve. The products were solid.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

That enthusiasm for design in general first led Royer to be an early worker for bespoke men’s clothing firm Bonobos – but even back in his clothing days, he held onto a lasting fascination with the furniture market in general, and sofas in particular. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. Today, we are seeing other form factors emerging, beyond just the credit card, including the watch, the bracelet, the payment ring and the car one day,” Chris Curtin, chief of brand and innovation marketing officer at Visa, told RCR Wireless News.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

As the temperature of a company can typically be measured by whether it employees marketing professionals, the announcement of the company’s first chief marketing officer shows positive changes for Madison Reed. Madison Reed’s first CMO, Heidi Dorosin, was hired by the hair color company after working at Clorox for the past 20 years.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

They wanted to look nice, but with hundreds and thousands of new products launching on the market annually, only the most interested and invested consumers would ever encounter most of them. Physical makeup powerhouse Sephora has its own subscription line, a legion of dedicated consumers and international brand recognition.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Domino’s was one of the first chains to innovate the space, developing an online tracker that reported order statuses to customers in real time and offered artificial intelligence (AI)-driven voice ordering. Entering the market early meant there were precious few examples to emulate when Domino’s started offering digital ordering.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A lot of millennials don’t even own can openers,” Andy Mecs, the vice president of marketing and innovation for StarKist , told The Wall Street Journal in a story this week. That’s why, according to the CNBC report, “Bumble Bee and StarKist both have premium brands that they market as sustainable.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Domino’s CEO Richard Allison said on a call with analysts that he was pleased with the second-quarter performance, but noting “we are a work-in-progress brand,” he said there have been and will always be many areas where the brand can improve. Digital Innovations. The technology is now in more than 40 company-owned stores.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, Celent recognized mBank’s digital platform redesign and in 2015, Celent recognized mBank’s Bancassurance initiative. 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. Through 2014, mBank has grown to more than 4.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

With companies in the travel industry starting to see payment innovation as a long-term investment instead of a short-term cost, Amadeus IT Group is reportedly in talks to potentially acquire hotel reservation system provider TravelClick. But, at the same time, larger travel companies see stronger benefits from payment innovation.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But Smith was committed, and believed that among outdoor enthusiasts — particularly millennials like himself — a digitally-native brand with a story to tell and a unique way of pursuing its core mission would have an awful lot of appeal. “My Its first offerings for consumers were backpacks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

ContentSquare empowers brands to measure content performance, understand visitor intentions and explain consumer decisions when they do or do not purchase. This funding confirms the relevance and need for a platform like ContentSquare in the market.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Collison brothers had founded Stripe, but it would be a year before it would be in-market. Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India. As we start this new decade and prep for the innovation that will propel it, there are some things we know, for sure, already. eBay was considered Amazon’s biggest competitor.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

According to Bloomberg , the retail group that helped sign multimillion dollar deals with brands selling on Amazon is now being merged with the team that runs the marketplace, an automated platform that lets anyone price, market and sell their products on the site without having to interact with anyone.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

In an effort to better compete in China, H&M has rolled out its core brand on Alibaba ’s Tmall. The move marks the first time H&M has sold its main brand through a third-party retailer, trade publication Business of Fashion reported. The Swedish retailer entered China’s online retail market with its own eCommerce store in 2014.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

“Get your essentials in a flash,” Apple said in a marketing email, according to the outlet. Following Apple Pay ’s 2014 launch, CVS reportedly disabled near-field communication (NFC) terminals. They’re nearly universally recognizable as the brand behind the twin cultural forces of the Slurpee and the Big Gulp.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

For some entrepreneurs, innovative ideas can strike at literally any time – and for Monica + Andy founder Monica Royer , her business concept certainly hit her at an interesting time. I was so surprised when I had my daughter, and I realized there had been no innovation in what your baby wears in the hospital,” Monica Royer told Forbes. “I

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail. Data assembled by ShopperTrak and published by The Wall Street Journal in January of 2014 only quantified the steepness of that decline — starting as early as 2011. It’s Amazon. percent a year earlier, and a 42.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Amazon is on track to become “America’s largest clothing retailer,” surpassing both Macy’s and Nordstrom in total sales, by 2017, according to a new report entitled “Amazon: Fashion Media & Deals” from L2, a firm that specializes in digital brand performance. s largest clothing retailer, too. It will come naturally that way.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

However, one digital marketing agency is pushing that exact point. In 2014, a Knorr food truck equipped with beacons drove around a wintry Stockholm delivering free samples, but instead of trying to get customers to use an app from a food brand, it partnered with a popular newspaper and piggybacked on its reach.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

News last week that Macy’s profits would take an unexpected Q4 nosedive set off a retail stock market shock wave that wiped $34 billion in value from the sector. Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. But consider this.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

As a result of the integration, LoanHero’s team and technology will operate as part of LendingPoint Merchant Solutions, and the LoanHero brand will be retired. Since its founding in 2014, LendingPoint has issued nearly $500 million in consumer loans to more than 70,000 borrowers.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

To be American is to have the freedom to innovate, take risks, create, transform and put in the hard work that has led to the successes – and failures – that define human progress. Many innovators with great ideas and great potential do not begin with great wealth, so they need a great government partner to support their success.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

This is out of touch with the way it should be,” said ItsOn Vice President of Technical Sales and Marketing Robert Oberhofer. Though America’s biggest carriers haven’t cottoned on yet, cloud startup ItsOn has made great inroads in overseas developing markets, with Saudi Arabia leading the charge in customer-centric marketing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. With its Predictive Lifecycle and Marketing Platform, the Durham, N.C.-based

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

News came earlier this week that the department store operator Macy’s – itself no spring chicken or healthy fowl – and Tailored Brands had struck a pact to wind down the operations of a tuxedo retailing agreement. The operating loss on the business, said Tailored Brands, is expected to range from $7 million to $9 million for fiscal year 2017.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Launched in 2014, Amazon Home Services originally offered services related to specific products that were sold on Amazon.com. In 2016, the eCommerce giant announced it had expanded Amazon Home Services into 20 new metropolitan markets around the country. All our services are backed by our happiness guarantee.

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