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MARCH 6, 2019

Corelle Brands has been around for a while — like 100 years. By today’s standards, it looks anything like an innovative brand. But then, looks can be deceiving — 100 years ago, Corning Glass Works had just introduced a massive innovation into the lives of home cooks everywhere. A New Kind Of Pothead.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

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. Canada and Brazil. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple. Hackers Go For Gold In Rio.

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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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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Venture capital has hit a plateau, according to some analysts. “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.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It started when Founder Stephen Lease was training for a marathon in 2016. It capitalized on that growth to add new sports, including golf, strength training and biking. Another example of AR working in a retail application can be seen at the direct-to-consumer (D2C) sunglasses retailer goodr.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The corporate venture capital ecosystem is expanding far beyond the likes of Google Ventures and Intel Capital. According to our 2017 CB Insights Corporate Venture Capital Report , the number of new corporate venture capital firms making first-time investments reached record levels in 2017. Intel Capital.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The TouchCR platform was born out of the desire to be able to serve a consumer who is increasingly omnichannel, said Chief Innovation Officer Ritchie Hale. It’s for brands in a $15 to 500 million revenue space who want to go direct-to-consumer, to understand and relate to their customers,” Hale said.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Beyond helping workers and shoppers navigate the grocery aisles more efficiently, the EDGE shelf technology is said to pave the way for new revenue opportunities, as it will enable Kroger to sell digital ads to consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. billion private-brand products in 2016. The Grocery Market. At that rate, U.S.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Sam’s Club Scan & Go app debuted in 2016 and lets shoppers scan barcodes and show staffers digital receipts as they leave stores. There is a rush to capitalize on a digital shift powered by the pandemic, and it isn’t about providing physical a digital channel. Sam’s Club On Bringing The Digital Shift To Warehouse Stores.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2016

To say the least, the lead-up to the 2016 Rio Olympics has been one long and winding (and unevenly paved by subpar contractors) road. It better, too, because after several quarters of poor sales, brands need all eyes on their content whenever they’re not on the athletes.

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APRIL 24, 2017

This week we saw scientists march, the French go to the polls and a $400 high-tech juicer turned out to be an innovation on par with something that everyone already has: their hands. Now reports indicate that BJ’s owners, CVC Capital Partners and Leonard Green & Partners, are looking to sell the company for just north of $4 billion.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Jeff Binder, CEO of Layer3, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “We’re the first cable company in … 10 years to come that’s brand new. Consumers haven’t had a young innovative company to provide [pay TV] services to them since the mid-1990s, when Dish and DirectTV came on the scene.”. and has since rolled out to Chicago.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

In 2016, we formed a range of partnerships to support our development strategy on auto-mobility services and solutions for our customers,” said Gianluca De Ficchy, CEO of RCI Bank and Services, in a statement to TechCrunch. We will also be able to capitalize on this platform as part of our activities for the Alliance brands.”.

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MAY 3, 2019

However, with business owners and entrepreneurs often taking a page out of their personal lives as consumers, the eventual adoption of emerging solutions is an inevitable part of FinTech innovation. “As a business owner, you want to minimize the amount of working capital you have tied up in the business to focus on productive assets.”

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Tefkin

JANUARY 5, 2016

Looking at 2016 with the experience of the past 7 years in financial services. While banks are still experiencing the effect of the crisis notably through restrictive regulation and a continuing string of financial scandals, their public messaging is one of innovation and change. it will be a pivotal year for financial services.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. Now showing how Avoka can integrate with a ton of apps in a matter of days with your company’s brand. Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. It’s seems better to invest in a brand you are more comfortable with an established presence. franchising sector.

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MAY 25, 2018

The tiers look like this: Liquor brands sell alcohol to a distributor, which, in turn, sells the alcohol to a bar. Different beverage brands use different beverage distributors. million round of funding led by Hyde Park Angels, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Sandalphon Capital and others.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

small hotel rooms are the rule, not the exception, and even here in the states the idea has been floating around since 1989 when the Microtel brand began first offering its half-sized, half-priced hotel rooms in Rochester, New York. In that sense it might be hard to pick them out as innovative as first glance.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

For years, banks have enjoyed a low bar on CFO expectations around payment product sophistication and innovation. percent between 2014 and 2016. Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. 2 Accenture Research on S&P Capital IQ data.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

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. Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Last week, Helpshift announced that Cisco Investments had joined its Series B funding round, following previous investors Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Brands in a rapidly growing mobile world needed real-time, intuitive tools in order to solve user problems in-app, in real time,” he said. “My

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Since late 2015, General Mills, Campbell Soup, and Kellogg’s have all launched or invested in venture capital funds to foster startup innovation. Other corporates have made major acquisitions. Danone announced a $12.5B Want the full expert post? Become a CB Insights customer. If you’re already a customer, login here.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. Frank And Oak later expanded, debuting a line of for women in 2016. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”. Omni days to come.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 23, 2017

Jeff Bank A: To our shareholders, Since our inception, we have used the word ‘‘Absolutely’’ as a part of our brand. In 2016, we decided to ask our customers for feedback on their relationship with [Bank A]. We had $xx million of deposit growth in 2016, including $xx million, or x%, growth in transaction deposit accounts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

“Although it’s harnessing the latest innovations in tech, it offers a very simple way to access finance, as well as access to human financial advisors,” explained FSB London Chair Michael Lassman in a statement earlier this month. ” Such transformation won’t happen overnight, however, and the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

A lack of access to funding may have opened the doors for alternative finance, but AltFin’s ability to quickly innovate and provide digital services — often faster than traditional banks could — means that online lending platforms have been able to compete and gain traction. This creates huge brand loyalty and trust.”

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APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

The rise of alternative and marketplace lenders emerged because traditional FIs weren’t agile enough in their innovation and technology adoption to develop the convenience and efficiency new market entrants offered, he added. The bank will win the game, hands down,” the executive declared. Marketplace lenders will eventually disappear.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Last year, it closed a $1 billion venture capital round , according to news reports from Reuters. At the last Olympic games — Rio in 2016 — sales were so strong that Fanatics was often reordering their bestselling products, from caps to t-shirts to jackets, according to Fanatics President of Merchandising Jack Boyle. The Economics.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce. Is it though?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. In fact, according to our recent study, they come in dead last.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

B2B: The trillion dollar industry that gets overshadowed in innovation by consumer gee-wizardry tech, B2B is gaining more attention by the day. Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year. Just sayin’.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Daimler sells both passenger cars and vans under the Mercedes brand and manufactures trucks and buses under a wide range of other marques. From new booking engines to events/activities to person-to-person platforms like Airbnb, there is innovation all over in travel. How is Tech Disrupting the Travel Industry? And no one is safe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

The first section of 2016 has not exactly been smooth sailing for the various innovators and entrepreneurs that decided to jump into the exciting world of becoming the Uber of something or other. The garden is smaller in 2016 but, after weeks of reporting closures, the signs of spring may yet be encouraging. Or are they?

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CB Insights

AUGUST 21, 2017

We used CB Insights data to dig into investment trends, deal share, and geographic trends across the overall fitness ecosystem, from fitness clubs to sports-related innovations to meditation apps. The top deal in Q1’17 went to men’s activewear brand Rhone , in a $12M Series B round from L Catterton. Annual Trends.

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