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MAY 4, 2017

Brands (YUM) beat out earnings and revenue estimates for Q1, though numbers were still down year-on-year. Revenues for Q1 2017 hit $1.42 Brands is already well underway, helping us deliver a solid start to 2017 with core operating profit growth of 9% in the first quarter,” said CEO Greg Creed in the release.

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MAY 29, 2018

Brands from L Brands — which counts Victoria’s Secret in its portfolio — and Ralph Lauren , as well as Starbucks , are bullish on China. Here are their executives on how they plan to build their brands in the country. For Ralph Lauren, expanding on the brand’s digital and international presence is a “key initiative.”

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Barneys became the latest brand to rise from the dead recently when the retailer reopened as “ Barneys at Saks ,” a store within a store at the flagship Manhattan site of its former rival, Saks Fifth Avenue. The launch of Barneys at Saks is a seminal moment to reignite the brand for the future.”.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

To bring higher-end products to its website, Walmart had courted brands like water-filtration company Katadyn for months. As part of its efforts, the retailer gave some brands the opportunity to determine how outside sellers on the its website price and display their products. These brands are objecting because of pricing.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. Yum operates the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC chains, and the company’s fourth-quarter results, released Thursday (Feb. It’s an impressive achievement, considering we rolled out the program in the second half of 2017.”.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ridesharing company Gett, which operates under the name Juno in New York City, is shuttering its operations there and entering into a partnership with Lyft to take on its accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch. We are focusing on reaching operational profitability globally already next month in December,” he said.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Although Apple will operate the playlist, a relatively young label called UnitedMasters , which was founded in 2017, will provide much of the music. As Bloomberg put it, the label “connects about 190,000 independent artists to audiences through direct partnerships with brands.”. More Digital Services Wins Needed.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

We believe that the critical mass of our transformational challenges is behind us, and we remain sharply focused on operational improvements and financial discipline to accelerate strategies to create sustainable, long-term growth for the Under Armour brand and our shareholders,” Frisk said in the statement.

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JULY 23, 2019

One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new brand of sunscreen. Enough, in fact, that it propelled the firm’s second big pivot — bringing in Dior retail strategy veteran Amanda Baldwin to run the operations of the company as president.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Foley has worked with SPAC mergers in the finance sector before, with one of his private ventures working with Blackstone in 2017 to buy insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life. It operates through brands like Income Access, Paysafecard, Skrill and Neteller, Bloomberg reported. II SPAC raised $1.47 with a market value of $1.95

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in retail innovation, Indonesia’s Blibli.com has opened a cashierless brick-and-mortar store location for its BlibliMart brand. s program for dockless electric vehicle operators. 2017: The year D.C All this, Today in Data. Data: 10K: Maximum number of scooters that would be permitted in 2020 with D.C.’s

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APRIL 14, 2020

Premium jeans brand True Religion has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in three years, according to court filings. True Religion was acquired for $824 million in 2013 by London-based capital investment firm TowerBrook Investment Partners, and ended up filing for bankruptcy in 2017.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

ModCloth offers exclusive indie and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35-year-old women, while Go Global Retail is a brand investment platform for strategic investors in the consumer sector. Walmart acquired the assets and operations of ModCloth in March 2017 for an undisclosed amount.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

A security researcher notified Panera of the vulnerability in August of 2017, at which time the company acknowledged the issue, saying it was working on a fix; but eight months later, the flaws were still there, which is when the researcher took the information to Krebs. Some experts are saying the breach was ongoing for a year. Under Armour.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The company was founded by Portuguese fashion entrepreneur José Neves in 2008 with the goal of creating an online marketplace for luxury boutiques and brands. “We The average age of Farfetch’s luxury shopper is 36 — somewhat younger than usual, which explains why brands like Harvey Nichols were enthusiastic to sign on. million in 2017.

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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 company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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MAY 19, 2017

rose some 4 percent in after-hours trading following the company’s earnings release for the first quarter of fiscal 2017. In Q1 2017, Gap Inc. Across brands, Gap Inc. reported comparable sales up 2 percent in Q1 2017, a significant improvement over the 5 percent loss the company posted in the same period last year.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

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. billion into Snap since it started in 2012, and its IPO in March of 2017 raised $3.4 Investors put $2.65 billion more.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

There is no word on how much the retailer — which connects nearly 900 boutiques and luxury brands to 2 million affluent and luxury-enthused consumers — plans to raise, but it placed a $100 million marker in the filing. Revenue for 2017 was $386 million, a 59.4 percent increase over 2016, and its operating profit was $136.9

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Some brands, like Solimo , are in use by Amazon globally,” TJI said.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

When Stockwell launched in September of 2017, it went by a different name: Bodega. But the branding came across somewhat differently. The brand was widely accused of being culturally insensitive and appropriating the name of the very shops they were hoping to push out of business with their full-service vending machines.

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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.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

These decisions are not taken lightly, but we believe they are necessary to set the brand and business up for long term success,” a spokeswoman said. Walmart bought Bonobos for $310 million in 2017. In 2017, the retail giant bought ModCloth and Moosejaw, and outdoor retail company.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In the long list of startup finalists competing at South by Southwest 2017 hides a brand new personal finance management app. Hip Money – a new app by Hip Pocket – adapts the millennial habit of “swiping” to help them save and pay down debt through a mobile app. Nebraska-based software Read More.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For its three years in operation, Brandless generated no shortage of buzz with its concept of “private label for less” and the idea that the best brand is no brand at all. Under his leadership, the plan for the brand was to pivot into higher-margin, bigger ticket products such as CBD oil and move Brandless onto store shelves.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Williams-Sonoma announced its operating results for Q4 and fiscal year ended January 29, 2017 on Wednesday (March 15). In 2016, we delivered revenues of over $5 billion, which included another year of double-digit growth across West Elm, our newer businesses Rejuvenation and Mark and Graham, and our company-owned global operations.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Before the announcement, Bon-Ton announced it would shutter 40 out of its 260 brick-and-mortar stores across its various brands. To keep its operations going, the retailer said it had lined up $725 million in debtor-in-possession financing as its case makes its way through bankruptcy court.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The website is a re-branding of Middle Eastern eCommerce site Souq.com , which was acquired by Amazon in 2017, PYMNTS reported. Last year, the company converted Souq’s website in the United Arab Emirates to an Amazon-branded one, amazon.ae. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

I’ve been with the exchange pretty much from the beginning, and I’ve never seen this kind of growth," said Chief Brand Officer Juan Mendez , according to CoinDesk. This is bigger than the 2017 spike on operations and on demand.".

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Approximately 1,300 attendees (including bankers, credit union executives, industry analysts and media representatives American Banker , Banking Exchange and BIG Media ) joined 30 sponsor companies to immerse themselves in all things retail banking at BAI Beacon 2017, held at the Georgia World Congress Center October 4-5. October 10-11.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

brand to enter HelloFresh’s portfolio: HelloFresh, EveryPlate and Green Chef are the other three. We have four high-growth food brands in our group, all benefiting from our strong growth engine, technology and supply chain infrastructure.”. CPG brand Nestlé announced that it has closed a deal to acquire Freshly , a U.S.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

CarGurus is a successful company that went public in 2017, and it’s going to keep Autolist as its own brand and website. PistonHeads also still operates under its own brand name. “We CarGurus, an auto marketplace based in Boston, has acquired car shopping platform startup Autolist, according to reports.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Manheim Logistics will use its Ready Logistics and Central Dispatch brands with DHL's logistics engineering expertise and advanced technology, including advanced routing, to help customers speed up processes, according to the release. And there will be a new integrated user experience portal for use by shipping and operations workers.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 15, 2017

Since 2010, 19 new retail and commercial banking licenses have been issued, with at least eight more pending as at January 2017. To corroborate this statement, PwC with YouGov polled more than 2000 British consumers in January 2017 on their awareness of and preference for different types of banks, banking products and services.

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MAY 15, 2017

The Vancouver, British Columbia–based company already operates a store in the Windy City, at Water Tower Place. At the end of its fiscal year 2017 (February 26, 2017), Aritzia operated 60 stores in Canada and 19 stores in the United States. Canada’s Aritzia Inc.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Also, Farfetch will get a “Level 1” entry point on the JD app, giving the 300 million JD customers access to upwards of 1,000 luxury brands and boutiques. We are delighted to build on our relationship with JD.com, and bring to market an unrivaled solution for luxury brands to succeed in the Chinese market.

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