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APRIL 25, 2019

In 2016, eGaming was a $493 million industry, and in 2017 (the last year for which data was available), that had jumped to $655 million. These are particularly popular among Gen Zers, the up-and-coming generation that is starting to nudge millennials out of the headlines. Most estimates for 2018 are around $900 million.

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APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. A lot has been written in recent years about everything that has gone wrong at Macy’s.

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JULY 23, 2018

And IKEA is making other moves in international markets: To reach more consumers and foster more eco-friendly operations, for example, the brand is testing out renting its furniture offerings in Japan, Curbed reported in January. “India is an opportunity to make the next 75 years of IKEA.”.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. percent in 2017, Taco Bell has been drawing in customers with new food items, a Live Más marketing campaign and new nacho fries for $1. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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MAY 28, 2019

million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. billion in 2017. That marked an increase from 2017’s $1.4 Mallzee created a digital mall where consumers can compare many different retail brands. Just under $3 billion – or $2.7

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. percent CAGR since 2017, according to one recent estimate. The company owns 458 stores in the U.S.,

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JULY 30, 2018

With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Blue Apron’s 2017 IPO largely flopped on Wall Street, and the company made a number of high profile changes like expanding into Costco. million customers and 39.5 million meals delivered.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While much of physical retail struggled in 2017 from rapidly realigning consumer shopping habits, the team at Home Depot had an incredibly solid year, with same-store sales growing each quarter and a stock price that surged 42 percent. Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017. A Stumbling Start to 2018.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers. The reach is considerable, touching 335,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) across 3,200 brands. Total value of goods sold through the site was up 55 percent in 2017, over 2016, to $910 million.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Discogs operates as an online, crowdsourced avenue through which individuals can list their popular and rare audio recordings for sale. million records in the first half of 2017, generating an estimated $100 million in sales the previous year, according to Billboard. Each new listing adds to the overall database. Current Climate.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Despite the concern – and a corresponding 9 percent drop in Walmart’s stock price that shaved some $29 billion from its market cap – CEO Doug McMillon told analysts he remains confident that 2018 digital sales performance will be in parity to its 2017 performance. We had a few operational issues from an inventory replenishment perspective.”.

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JUNE 22, 2018

And those improvements are attracting millennial and Generation X consumers. At the end of 2017, right before the debut of the redesign, the app had attracted 30 customer reviews and an overall rating of 2.5 They want to co-brand with you, embed our offer within their offer,” he told Webster. stars, Jarrett told Webster.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Stresses in the retail sector have weighed on the operating earnings of department stores, discount stores and drug stores in particular,” Sharon Ou, a Moody’s senior credit officer, said in the report. But the nine new defaults on the list now go up on the scoreboard with the 13 retail bankruptcies logged in in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Attract higher-income customers by bringing in premium brands. Below, we look 11 startups that might be on Walmart’s radar, divided between: Brands.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Summer in 2017 is quite a different place these days, even if it bears some uncanny resemblance to the summer of 51 years ago. In 2017, Americans take fewer vacation days than previous generations did. Those assistants can also be called upon to tell those consumers a joke if the summertime blues are really, really getting them down.

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JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Wendy’s , for example, planned to roll out self-ordering kiosks at about 1,000 of its retail locations by the end of 2017 in an attempt to both lure younger customers and to battle long lines at peak dining hours. 25 percent is the projected percentage of customer service operations that will use chatbots by 2020. . —

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JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots. Instagram powers digital beauty brands. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. consumers showed that of the 7.75 percent of all retail sales. Share of U.S.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Silvernest’s Ceo and cofounder Wendi Burkhardt spoke to PYMNTS about this growing sector, its role in the sharing economy and why the focus doesn’t always need to be on millennials for the future of the housing market. We’ve been fully operational for just over a year, and we’ve had more than 10,000 people sign up from all 50 states.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Consider that: Half of Indonesia’s population is under the age of 30, with the number of millennials (aged 17-35) in Indonesia currently at 79.5M. In its 2018 report, OVO claimed it had facilitated 1B transactions for the year, or a 75X increase since November 2017. in loans in 2018 vs. $182M in 2017. in 2013 to 15.8%

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JANUARY 14, 2019

To save physical retail, anyone who wants to operate a physical store must convince consumers that it’s worth their time to—how’s this for an insight?—go Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. go there to shop. But consider this.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

US consumers aged 18+ make an average of 70 payments per month, with debit cards accounting for 32% of those purchases, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Fed. PayPal subsidiary Venmo’s forthcoming Venmo Card operates in a similar fashion. Transactions made with the card will be funded solely by a Venmo account balance.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

We have brand-new data that reveals how much change is happening. People of all stripes — from millennials to baby boomers, from Generation X to the Greatest Generation — are increasingly swapping the friction of shopping in a store for the convenience of using one of the many connected devices they now own to shop and buy from instead.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. All others operate under special regulatory licenses and/or partner with financial institutions and some, like Revolut, are in the process of obtaining a charter. Millennials. why profitability won’t come easy.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Apart from its well-known namesake brand, Billabong is also the parent behind a host of surf and beach-lifestyle related firms: RVCA, Element, Kustom, Palmers Surf, Xcel, Honolua Surf Co. and Von Zipper are all Billabong brands (Billabrands). million, while $518,000 was cut from the value of the Honolua brand. Revenue dropped 8.8

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. By 2017, it had much of this codified in its own internal software.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Table of Contents.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS had previous covered, way back in 2017, cloud-based travel and expense report management solution Certify bought nuTravel in a deal designed to enable Certify to launch a new solution using nuTravel technology. But millennials are hardly the only force for change in the broader travel industry. That’s not all.

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JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” This approach to marketing is enabling a new wave of specialized fast-casual brands to take root.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Also this week, Bank of America demo’d its smart chatbot, Erica , said to be coming in “late 2017.” The payments giant also announced partnerships with GM and IBM ( FD16 ) this week to launch Masterpass payment functionality on OnStar Go, a digital platform that will be embedded in 2 million GM vehicles by the end of 2017.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Getting on board with this new technology is key for banks and financial institutions as they look for ways to attract millennial consumers. This year, the Digital Banking Tracker looked at millennials’ financial habits and why younger users favor digital banking solutions over traditional banking models. INTERNET OF THINGS TRACKER.

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