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JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

That’s why marketers will be leveraging mobile in their holiday shopping strategies this year, with new and creative strategies that focus more on omnichannel solutions and less on generic mobile coupons. EMarketer also found that nearly two-thirds of millennial internet users searched social networks for coupons in the third quarter of 2015.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Now that Apple’s less-than-stellar earnings report has had time to propagate throughout the industry, the commonsense takeaway is that the company has lost a piece of the innovation mojo that has defined the brand for so long. Matsuoka’s hiring is far more than a hollow marketing opportunity, though.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

In 2015 The Guardian advised that we should all take our Thanksgiving turkey and “ throw it in the garbage ,” prompting us to admire the temerity it takes for a group of Englishmen to offer instructions on a holiday they do not actually celebrate. There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. Or is there?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2017

percent annual consumption rate increase over the last six years, India’s liquor market size has become the third largest in the world. Out of India’s overall retail $35 billion market on a yearly basis, the fact that liquor sales has reached $22 billion is astounding. With a steady increase of 8.9

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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?”

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JUNE 15, 2016

.” That’s been a law of the natural retail world for as long as head-to-head competition has been the means by which one brand sinks and another brand swims. And like Walgreens is now painfully aware, sometimes the mad dash to gobble up innovative startup partners can lead merchants down a dark path.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2021

Founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh said in a letter with the filing that the company, founded 11 years ago, has been “committed to providing honest products with great value, and committed to delivering them in an innovative, delightful way.”. “To To do what we did back then took more than wisdom and tenacity, it took courage,” he wrote. “We

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The conference was well attended, with broad representation from all institution sizes and markets. Presentations focused on targeted marketing for “moneyhawks” , new P2P models (e.g. One spoke of the need to market correctly.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Who ever imagined that the ways in which we pay would become so enmeshed in feelings of customer satisfaction, brand loyalty, and the profound commercial affinities now achievable? Nearly 80 percent of FI executives believe these innovations will help them differentiate themselves and compete, the study showed.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2015, Americans ate $7.7 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. market by about seven years. Innovation-Minded.

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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

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

Marketing 110

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PYMNTS

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 once pure play eCommerce business will open 12 new physical locations next year, adding to the 18 existing Fabletics locations that began launching in the Fall of 2015.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Jackie Berg, VP of marketing at Olo, said in the announcement, “Ordering lunch from the car with a push of a button – we’re living in the future!” Portillo’s and Nekter Juice Bar are the first live brands to participate in the in-car ordering pilot. The pilot is available for BMW vehicles from model year 2015 and later.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Take a look at this chart, which lays out grocery chain market share. Walmart has the largest market share at 14.2 In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. This one is particularly amusing. percent, the next biggest player is Kroger at 7.2

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Since opening their first store in Palo Alto, California, in 2015, b8ta has aimed to offer just such an experience: the ability to snap up tech products that might otherwise be hard to find — and buy anyplace but online. Sometimes the product takes 18 months to get to market, or never ships.”.

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JULY 7, 2016

The company, which Deloitte said was the fastest-growing tech startup in the world from 2011 to 2015, expects a bump in its British business as a result of the historic vote to compel the U.K. We have a really strong brand name for them to other countries in the EU where bids are made in euros. Sellers in the U.K. Sellers in the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The funding will be used to expand in Lookiero’s main markets of Spain, France and the U.K. Founded in 2015 by Spanish entrepreneur Oier Urrutia, the company uses algorithms to provide users with a personalized online shopping experience. The customer then decides which items to keep or return.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Goat Group, named for the sports acronym “greatest of all time,” was started in 2015 by college buddies Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano. Foot Locker has lately been investing heavily in online companies, including women’s activewear company Carbon38, children’s brand Super Heroic and Pensole, a footwear design academy. million so far.

Online 122

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO and managing director at Wirecard North America, noted that when it comes to innovation, issuers face challenges in meeting the needs and expectations of a diverse populace of users spanning borders and cultures. market as an example of the co-existence and collision of cash and digital payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Christopher Thomas-Moore, Domino’s vice president of global eCommerce and digital marketing, explained that the availability of these programs can go a long way toward building a company’s brand in the eyes of consumers. Domino’s Piece of the Pie Rewards loyalty program launched in 2015. Customers want to see value,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Easterbrook, who has been the company’s CEO since March 2015, also resigned from McDonald’s board. He first joined McDonald’s in 2015, overseeing global strategy, business development and innovation. As one of the world’s leading brands, McDonald’s makes a difference in the lives of people every day.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

market has changed, framed largely as a competition between Amazon and Walmart , with increasing pressure from discount chains like ALDI. Kroger is committed to maintaining its market share — and not being overrun in the grocery war underway. That, according to Gil Phipps, Kroger VP of Corporate Brands , means customers are adding 1.25

Branding 133

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The topic of conversation was the inevitable consolidation of the payments sector, as scale becomes critical to optimizing the payments experience and innovating new payments flows. I admit that I had high expectations of Amazon Restaurants when it was announced in 2015. Wait, was that four years ago already? Time flies.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

Kraft Heinz has drawn criticism for its food innovations not being, well, innovative enough. The food giant is betting big on its recent Real Mayo launch in the US and Canada, competing with leading brands like Hellman’s. Note: the earning’s calls mentions before the 2015 merger are for H.J. Heinz company.).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Allbirds has always been a somewhat unique company in the world of digitally-native brands attempting to take the world by storm. But what Allbirds co-CEOs Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger had in common when they founded their upstart shoe company in 2015 was a shared vision that was different.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“After $100M+ checks flowed freely to VC-backed companies through much of 2015, the mega-round trend has settled into a lower range through 2016,” concluded KPMG and CB Insights in their Q3 2016 venture capital report. Still, 86 percent said they’re planning to cooperate with those competitors to innovate and grow.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. A number of customer experience submissions this year focus on building out separate digital subsidiary brands within traditional institutions. Brands are similar and products/ services are frequently cross-sold.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The popularity of ordering in is not a new trend, however, with the number of digital food orders rising 23 percent between 2015 and 2019 alone. Fast casuals, quick service restaurants (QSRs) and table service operations all have long been working to innovate their ordering services. Starbucks expanded its ordering services in the U.S.

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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. Imagine BBVA adopting Simple as its global brand.

Branding 100

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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

JULY 1, 2016

Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon planned to roll out a series of private label products, including tea, coffee, baby food and vitamins, in an effort to expand into the lucrative “store brand” market. Store branded items rose to an all-time sales high of $118.4 sales in 2015, which was a $2.2

Branding 100

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JUNE 14, 2016

The Motley Fool has a breakdown of the roller coaster ride Nordstrom’s eCommerce sales have ridden since the early 2000s, when online generated just 5 percent of sales, to 2015, which brought in 20 percent. percent in 2015, Nordstrom’s full-priced online products fell to just 3.1 percent last quarter.

Online 100

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