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JULY 6, 2016

From an economic standpoint , James’ departure, which he announced in a highly controversial one-hour primetime special broadcast on ESPN entitled “The Decision,” was immediately felt in Cleveland and to the value of James’ own brand. That said, minimal backlash to the KD brand. It will only help his brand.”.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. The paper reported that “Costco will be targeting China’s affluent growing middle class, who know the brand from traveling abroad.”. As well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path Costco seems to be taking in China.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. Kirwan had been in charge of the Gap brand since December 2014. s head of Global Talent and Sustainability, will oversee the brand until a permanent replacement is found. “I

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APRIL 10, 2020

Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop specializing in digital diabetes diagnosis and treatment – has partnered with vegetarian meal kit purveyor Purple Carrot to add a retail angle to its health advisory service. In fact, the $17 million raised by the company since its founding in 2014 has come strictly from those physicians, not VC funding.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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. Taylor founded Tracksmith in 2014. So Tracksmith was born and now thrives as a D2C brand.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Amazon is replacing some of its retail veterans with software that predicts what shoppers want and how much merchants should charge for it. The shift to automating retail team jobs started several years ago with an initiative called “hands off the wheel.” Brands need to have strategies.”.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Amazon holds the dominant edge in the market for smart speakers, as about 70 percent of people in the U.S. That makes the online retail behemoth the definite leader in that field, and it’s expected to hold that lead through 2021, according to estimates from eMarketer. Some will be going with other speaker brands — there was 31.7

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These are the top stories in retail for Tuesday (Nov. 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. Wayfair, Home Furnishings Sector Looks Past COVID Winter.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Supermarket chains dominated a list of hottest retailers in 2015, according to information released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) STORES magazine. The trend is reflective of “grocers moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach and adopting new practices that focus more on their brands and shoppers,” according to NRF.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

There are many, many retailers and brands trying to outfit the world, and standing out in the crowd is difficult. The brand became the first to launch a website for U.S. The funds from sales generally do not flow back to Cuba, instead paying for marketing, taxes and payment for future printings. With its U.S.

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JULY 18, 2016

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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MARCH 22, 2016

While this early part of 2016 has been some tough sledding for Nordstrom on the sales and revenue front, The Street in many corners continues to look favorably on the high-end retailer. Through a reasonable long game, Nordstrom has positioned itself as the department store du jour for hot young brands in real world commerce.

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MAY 24, 2016

American retailers are showing a voracious appetite for global real estate expansion as they build their footprint overseas. The rapid expansion has a hit a new high with American retailers opening more stores abroad than retailers from any other country, findings from a new CBRE report say. The closest competitor to the U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

is wearing a size 14 or 16 — 35 percent to 60 percent of women depending on whose figures you like — but most mainstream retailers do not carry clothes above a size 14. A fact that people like Tim Gunn and Brian Beitler, chief marketing officer of Lane Bryant , says is true on paper, but overlooks the reality of plus-size women’s fashion.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

A lesson that is particularly true in retail — where merchants’ main and overriding goal is to be one with the will of the people, with people being synonymous with consumers. It also, as it turns out, gives normal people a voice — and with that voice a better shot at influencing outcomes. She’s loud and proud.

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MARCH 7, 2018

To help merchants and other service providers convert more consumers at the point of sale, LendingPoint has unveiled LendingPoint Merchant Solutions, a platform that will provide fully integrated one-stop retail financing, the company said in an announcement.

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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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JULY 22, 2016

So, how can you get your hands on the newest and hottest pair of Warby Parker shades — a “head-turning Haskell in Crystal, now with new silver mirrored lenses” that’s retailing for $95? Nope, you won’t be able to purchase them at WarbyParker.com or anywhere on the hip eyewear purveyor’s burgeoning list of brick-and-mortar retail stores.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Does this online brand have a chance at overtaking Victoria’s Secret? million, and, in 2014, it more than doubled those numbers again, raking in $16.2 In 2015, the company brought in an estimated $43 million, making Victoria’s Secret’s 62 percent market share seem catchable. Experts are starting to say yes. price point.

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JUNE 7, 2018

market, axing plans for new stores in three U.S. The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. The Swedish furniture retailer seems to be making the opposite transition.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. Costco will be targeting China’s affluent growing middle class, who know the brand from travelling abroad,” the newspaper reported. As well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path that Costco seems to be taking in China.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The startup offers software-as-a-service (SaaS) to let brands know how they are performing throughout eCommerce, according to reports. And, instead of going head to head with marketing insight firms IQVIA and Nielsen, it has inked revenue sharing-based strategic partnerships. million in seed funding.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon , the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit $2.25 trillion in market capitalization by 2024. Alexa Growth.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. Disney+ is planning to offer streaming content from brands like Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar. “Re-imagined”

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APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

For example, Rooster was 2017, Monkey was 2016, Goat was 2015, Horse was 2014, etc. If we were to take an informal poll, we suspect most retailers would also like it if it were always the Year of the Dog, especially if that meant shoppers would become a bit more doglike in the loyalty department. A Commerce Environment Full of Cats.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2020

“In this case, it provided a really great opportunity to work closely with their whole team, and to learn about the impact of influence-based businesses on retail.”. An endorsement from the Kardashian media empire is a big deal for any up-and-coming brand. However, for a brand like Afterpay, which launched in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Beyond the Cyber Monday deals from big-box retailers offering deep discounts on TVs, Xboxes and other big-ticket items, there are the smaller retailers trying to have skin in the game. Big retailers are more able to take in those discounts by enticing customers to buy more or other items. So, what do these smaller retailers do?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Google was the only brand in the top five smart speaker space to see sales drop in Q3 2019. . percent of the smart speaker market with 10.4 percent of the market. Xaomi was fifth, with 12 percent of the market share, the report showed. Amazon is the sales leader capturing 36.6 million in Echo sales and 65.9

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

According to a report by Reuters , APG Asset Management and Xander Group are co-investing $450 million in India’s real estate market, which will increase both companies investments there. The $300 million went for the three shopping centers in India, while the remaining $150 million was to buy or build new retail real estate.

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JULY 8, 2016

While the smartphone market is going down, Samsung appears to be one of the few companies still going up, and it appears to be largely thanks to the debut of its new Galaxy S7. That’s Samsung’s biggest quarterly increase since early 2014, when the smartphone market was still booming and products were flying off the shelf left and right.

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APRIL 19, 2019

The Olsen twins’ fashion empire has had a rather twisty and turny path through the world of retail apparel. The Row’s most beloved item of 2011, for example, was an alligator handbag that promptly sold out – even though its retail price was $39,000. ” Will it work?

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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. We see a very big market niche for ready-made meals,” Griesel was quoted as saying to the Rheinische Post newspaper.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In addition to seeking excess discounts and canceling orders, the vendors have revealed delayed payment practices in Transformers' new report, "Ending Unethical Brand and Retailer Behavior: The Denim Supply Chain Speaks Up." In one instance, a brand required 60-day payment terms of a vendor, then filed for bankruptcy 14 days later.

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