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JANUARY 25, 2021

The former CFO of Zalando SE, one of Europe’s most successful eCommerce retailers, Kemper was instrumental in leading the company’s IPO in 2014 on the Frankfurt stock exchange. In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Its most recent valuation was $3.5

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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 NRF released its annual list of Hot 100 Retailers on Aug. domestic sales with sales of at least $300 million based on figures compiled by Kantar Retail.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. The app is a replacement for the previous eBay Motors app, which was discontinued in 2015, and it is available in the U.S. The app is a replacement for the previous eBay Motors app, which was discontinued in 2015, and it is available in the U.S.

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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.”

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In May Munchery said it was planning to focus on its largest market, which was San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable. Munchery came on the scene in 2010 and hit a valuation of $300 million in 2015 after raising $87 million in a venture funding round. That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Semiconductor giant Intel has committed to invest more than $100 million over the course of the next five years in the retail industry to connect the physical and virtual components of retail operations. In retail, though, the advantages are especially profound.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

According to the Eastern Europe B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2019 report, online retail sales in Eastern European countries continue a trend of double-digit growth rates this year, a release said. Alibaba opened its first office in Russia in 2015 and has focused on the country as a key growth market.

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MAY 22, 2017

A new study has found that retail global expansion has lost some steam, and while the United States remains the most active, Europe is now the preferred spot for expanding retailers, according to Chain Store Age. The results found that retailers’ expansion into new markets increased by 2 percent in 2016, down from 3.1

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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. And while those numbers aren’t likely to keep Amazon or H&M up at night, for a small Cuban eCommerce startup operating out of nation where internet access is patchy and from which the company can’t ship goods directly to U.S.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The operation will likely include savings and lending products, and it comes just two years after U.S. Chase has usually not done international operations, preferring to nurture its huge and profitable domestic market. JPMorgan Chase is taking steps to open a digital bank in the U.K. by the end of the year.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Data may be king — as they say — but many retailers may find themselves feeling like an innocent pawn among all that data. And then there’s the challenge of how to use marketing research to reach the right consumer in the right channel and the right time with the right message.

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MARCH 18, 2016

billion in 2015, while net shareholder profit sank 4.6 To his credit, Fung did attempt to assuage concerns about all of his company’s operations. percent more revenue in 2015 than the year before. The changes happening [in] retail are impacting everyone along the value chain,” Fung said, according to FT.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The business of retail apps is booming. In 2015 alone, app sales increased to $59.86 And 303 of the world’s top 500 retailers now have an app. In 2015 alone, 50 those retailers generated $29.46 But what separates a good retail app from a bad one? Groupon topped all retailer apps on the list coming in at 83.0

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JANUARY 15, 2015

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Digital Banking. Cyber vulnerabilities.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

The nationwide chain — which operates about 1,470 retail stores selling pet supplies and professional services like veterinary care — is changing its name to Petco Health and Wellness in conjunction with the listing. This IPO marks Petco’s third foray into the public markets following filings in 1994 and 2000.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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JULY 2, 2019

is Amazon’s next market for Business Prime after rolling out the service in the U.S., That same year, Amazon hit the one million Amazon Business membership mark after launching its B2B operations in 2015. Ahead of Prime Day this year, Amazon is introducing Business Prime in the U.K., according to reports on Monday (July 1).

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JANUARY 7, 2021

As president of AppHarvest, Lee will be in charge of developing strategy and working on managing operations, leading sales, marketing and finance functions as the company continues to grow. Lee said in the release that the company offers a “unique solution to building a more resilient and responsible food system.”. “I

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JULY 5, 2018

As digital technology keeps bringing new efficiencies to transactions, and more consumers around the world turn to eCommerce for retail and other purchases, an accompanying trend is making life interesting for merchants and payment providers. Much of North America remains anchored to major-brand credit cards. The numbers back that up.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Founded in 2010, Sightline has experienced 744 percent revenue growth since 2015. The Sightline platform integrates with the i2c agile processing vehicle and APIs to deliver Play+, a cashless solution that gives gaming operators the ability to move money in real-time between tables, slots, and kiosks.

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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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MARCH 16, 2016

Western retailers are just now starting to see daylight at the end of a long winter of discounting discontent, and many standbys like Macy’s and JCPenney haven’t come out unscathed. 2015 report by Statistics Korea, via eMarketer , found a striking disparity in growth between physical and online retail in South Korea last year.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. Castle, founded in 2015, said it has raised $9.2 Fraud Case Study.

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MAY 11, 2016

Common sense isn’t so common when retail is still experiencing its fair share of upheavals from each new disruptor to make it to market, but the decade-plus of online and in-store retail operating side by side has established a few new ground rules that almost everyone can agree on.

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MAY 18, 2016

Well, there is some joy in retail’s Mudville, as TJX, the long-running champion of off-price sales, posted yet another quarter of solid results. Retail’s most beloved metric, same-store sales, were on the incline, up 7 percent over this time last year, and beating last year’s 5 percent Q1 growth.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Ask a brand, retailer or marketer, and they’ll all probably say the same thing: Brick-and-mortar retail stores are dying thanks to the rise of eCommerce and online shopping. And if brick-and-mortar retail really is dead or dying, then maybe somebody should tell that to the retailers themselves? And DSW’s 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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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It would make sense that the supermarket business might be immune from the cross-currents of retailing in 2020. Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. based natural foods retailer is the third significant U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

With those plans, the eCommerce retailer said it would purchase a fleet of electric vans to begin sending packages to shoppers in 2021. By 2022, 10,000 of the new carbon-neutral vehicles will be reportedly operating. And, by 2030, all 100,000 would reportedly be operating.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Menlo Park-based Enjoy Technology , the eCommerce startup led by Ron Johnson, former VP of retail operations for Apple, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. Enjoy Technology operates in 54-plus U.S. markets and will be offered in 11 U.K. population.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

As they aim to fill eCommerce orders faster, supermarket retailers are piloting micro-fulfillment systems that can be positioned in the back of brick-and-mortar locations or in urban areas. grocery market at approximately 3.5 The firm, which is now based in New York, was started in 2015 in Tel Aviv.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Not that too many major sports retailers are in a joking mood currently, but the easy joke to make — were one so inclined — about the spate of closures and bankruptcies in the space of late would be to attribute it to modern consumers’ laziness and lack of athleticism. A vicious circle if ever there was one.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their shoes are also a bit different, insofar as they are made from merino wool, which is both softer and more renewable than most sneaker materials out there on the market. They released their first product — the Wool Runner — in March 2016, and just about a year later their second shoe came to market: a slip-on called the Wool Lounger.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Everybody likes to talk about the addiction that brick-and-mortar retailers have developed for deep, and often destabilizing, discounts, and they usually point to store closings and executive board shakeups at Macy’s and other chains as clear proof of these practices’ consequences. Still, the label indicates that the $99.99

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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.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

Germany — Amazon’s second-biggest market after the U.S. All told, there are 479 Whole Foods Markets, 11 Amazon Go convenience stores, 18 Amazon Books stores, three Amazon 4-Star outlets, four “Presented by Amazon” mall kiosks, and five Amazon Pop-Up sites, according to Supermarket News. million Amazon Go stores.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 22, 2017

After my blog yesterday, about banks having to move from being control freaks in a proprietary operation building everything to becoming collaborative partners in an open marketplace curating everything, I was asked: “how do you make money out of curation?” It is also doubling year-on-year. billion in total. billion to UK consumers.

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