PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

After turning Taco Bell into a lifestyle brand and introducing breakfast at the quick service restaurant (QSR), CEO Brian Niccol is heading to Chipotle Mexican Grill. Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. He brought mobile ordering and payments to Taco Bell’s 7,000 U.S.

Branding 108

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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. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

Innovation 131

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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.

San Diego 190

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Fast casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill became one of the first major restaurant brands to pioneer the mobile ordering experience in 2008. West recently spoke with PYMNTS about how the chain supports ordering innovations and examines customers’ preferences to improve future experiences. . “In Real Ingredients Meet AI.

Strategy 130

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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. As of 2015, about half of the yogurt sold in the U.S.

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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.

Payments 198

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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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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. What it would look like is a store that is currently doubling its footprint — and hoping to operate coast to coast.

Technology 168

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands.

Innovation 109

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Lower ATM operating revenue in the U.K. ATM operating revenue, meanwhile, declined 15 percent year over year to $329.8 ATM operating revenue, meanwhile, declined 15 percent year over year to $329.8 North American ATM operating revenue increased 3 percent, but was offset by lower revenue in the U.K. Late Thursday (Nov.

ATM 155

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Ordering a cup of joe in the morning is standard practice for many, but customers couldn’t order it from their phones until 2015, when international coffee chain Starbucks launched order-ahead on its mobile app. UX, Payments and App Innovation. We did a lot of operational testing beforehand. Costa needs to innovate continuously.

Mobile 101

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2012, with the launch of MCX and CurrentC merchant-branded, ACH-linked mobile payments products. And what was the product?

Branding 184

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A number of customer experience submissions this year focus on building out separate digital subsidiary brands within traditional institutions. These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. Submissions were a mix of the two approaches.

Customer Experience 100

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2018

The operator of over 2,000 grocery stores nationwide, the company is the second-largest physical retailer in the U.S., That, according to Gil Phipps, Kroger VP of Corporate Brands , means customers are adding 1.25 million Kroger brand products to their carts every hour of every day their stores are open in the U.S.

Branding 133

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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.

Fintech 100

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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. Even back in 2015, the impact was, well, impactful, with a 2.8

Millennials 101

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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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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That includes allowing customers to open accounts completely online,” says Charles Potts, ICBA’s senior vice president and chief innovation officer. The Bank of Idaho integrated online account openings into its website in 2015. In 2019, the two merged brands again under IncredibleBank. A ‘big bang’ for digital account opening.

Idaho 134

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Restaurant operators are aware it’s not just good business to give consumers what they want – it’s also about staying ahead of the competition: 59 percent said they faced disruption from competitors that embraced mobile order-ahead technology. The top four were all branded apps, which makes sense for large chains. Yum Brands!

Mobile 162

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India. Mobile devices, fast cellular networks, the cloud, data and new tech – along with investors with capital and incumbents with an appetite for innovation – gave innovators the tools, ideas and capital to disrupt the then-analog sacred cows. Chip cards didn’t exist in the U.S.

Innovation 176

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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. 23-25, 2020.

Apple 227

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. In the U.S. trillion and $1.5

Online 101

Online Fraud Branding social media 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. By 2015, it had closed its doors. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. There was one wholesaler for every 43 mom-and-pop operations.

Regulation 105

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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. Brands need to have strategies.”.

Software 108

Software Retail Branding Management 108

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The increasing pressure posed to the pizza chain by third-party delivery services — unlike Pizza Hut and other operations, Domino’s has decided to handle its own delivery, and has embarked upon an effort to build more brick-and-mortar locations so that it can be closer to more real and potential customers, reducing its own delivery times.

Industry 101

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Through the EU’s passporting system, the new license enables PingPong to operate throughout the continent, thus better facilitating eCommerce transactions between China and Europe through PingPong’s cross-border eCommerce payments services. PingPong is yet another innovative FinTech player that chose Luxembourg as its EU hub.

Security 129

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2017

Whether a brand is selling athletic apparel globally, or it’s trying to sell parents on letting their kids build their own teddy bears, the bottom line is almost always conversions. Before Deck and his team became a software team, they were consultants, helping athletics brands and retailers design omnichannel commerce strategies.

Software 112

Software Branding Online Retail 112

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

Helping to push retail manufacturers to the next level is the influx of Internet of Things (IoT)-related technologies being inserted throughout operations. While companies like Warby Parker and Everlane have been at the forefront of this trend, brands like Nike and Pepsi are joining in on the DTC avenue — and it’s paying off.

Industry 120

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2017

In 2011, Visa invested in Square and in 2015, Stripe. as a market entered as late as 2015. They really represent, when we think about our own API capabilities, and focus on new token use cases … both a brand and a relationship, and also a platform where several different use case scenarios can be leveraged,” Gajda said.

Regional 100

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. Since taking the reins at MSUFCU in 2015, Clobes has more than doubled the size of the credit union, started a successful service organization (the Reseda Group), built an innovation center (The Lab), and started development of a new digital platform (Nextly).

Community 216

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. The List (2017).

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

million times and led to a 60 percent increase in the brand’s followers on Snapchat. “We wanted to be really engaging and enable them to participate in our brand. The final video was seen 6.7 It’s a great storytelling platform,” Galipeau told Fortune.

Millennials 100

Millennials South Carolina social media Oregon 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

billion in 2015. Klarna is looking to strengthen its global brand in Europe — specifically in Germany —and BillPay gives them a better access point. It is also operational in Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands. Klarna was last valued at $2.25 So which firm gets what?

Marketing 100

Marketing National Payments Branding 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Increasingly, companies like Oculus, which has been owned and operated by social media company Facebook since 2014, are already using it to enhance everything from the way enterprises train their employees to the way customers treat entertainment. Of course, the use of virtual reality as a retail tool isn’t particularly new. The Future of VR.

Tools 136

Tools Training Retail Technology 136

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Physical retail has proven an effective tool for health and beauty brands in recent years, even as other verticals struggle to figure out what it takes to thrive in the changing retail world. In 2015, the French-import and specialty beauty retailer operating in the U.S. Sephora is a good example of this.

Retail 108

Retail Branding social media Mobile 108

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

Open source technology has become critical to companies that need solutions that fit right into their own operations. Or take payments company First Data, which acquired open source storefront platform Spree Commerce in 2015 in a significant show of support for open source technology. Take Oro, for instance.

Analysis 108

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