PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

We are always looking for new ways to enhance the shopping experience and bring even more value to our customers,” Ed Macri, chief product and marketing officer for Wayfair, said in a press release. The Boston-based company generated $5.7 billion in net revenue for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2018.

New Jersey 129

New Jersey Massachusetts Boston Maine 129

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Investors were eager to see if the brand’s efforts to streamline its special offerings, and efforts for holiday 2018, had brewed up a merrier picture. There were areas of investor concern, though, particularly the slowing growth in the Chinese market. The brand is also forecasting net income between $2.32

Mobile 162

Mobile Los Angeles San Francisco Miami 162

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

According to previous reports, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020. And news surfaced last year that Walmart was opening a health clinic in Georgia with a deeper move into the market for primary and mental healthcare.

Atlanta 131

Atlanta Houston Fort Worth North Carolina 131

PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

CFO Adam DeWitt stated new markets, year to date, have reached a count of 70. Amid the headline numbers, the company has noted that average order sizes were up 3 percent year over year, with a boost in mix across all brands served. That increase in revenue per order comes absent increased support costs for those orders.

Boston 100

Boston Branding Online Regional 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Digitally native brands, especially those that sell tactile products like footwear, are seeing an offline opportunity in opening flagship stores in major cities. Shoe brand Allbirds , in particular, has brought a large retail space in New York City. cities, such as Boston and Los Angeles, for additional brick-and-mortar locations.

Retail 100

Retail Los Angeles Branding New York City 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That mindset “is becoming increasingly necessary if retailers want to remain competitive in the market,” the index found. Pharmacy operator CVS , for example, experimented with a program in Boston in which shoppers received free delivery on prescriptions and eCommerce purchases as well as other perks.

Innovation 166

Innovation Retail social media Apple 166

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Noto will continue in his role as CEO which he has held for three years since arriving from Twitter in 2018, where he was COO, and prior to that the NFL, where he served as CFO. The FinTech IPO Market. consumers.

Capital 150

Capital Los Angeles Boston Lending 150

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

The sandwich chain will be redirecting its focus to international expansion even as it loses market share in the U.S. Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. We’re focused now on strengthening market share.”. Some experts called the brand “tired” and in need of an update.

Retail 100

Retail Branding Boston Washington 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. And it will be a lot more than just 10 cents.

Regulation 181

Regulation Boston Cards Innovation 181

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. Between 2016 and 2018, for instance, the volume of orders placed through mobile apps grew by 130 percent, according to PYMNTS’ Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker.

Mobile 148

Mobile New York Philadelphia Google 148

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. The two brands first started working together in 2015. In the second quarter of 2018, Walmart sales grew their highest in over 10 years. That aside, whatever drama goes down on the gridiron on Sunday (Feb.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one).

Industry 110

Industry social media New York City Retail 110

PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2018

When planning a large-scale marketing push or publicity stunt, it can be easy to overlook the fact that getting attention is hard, and getting positive attention is even harder. And the summer of 2018 has already featured two flashy mass-market promotions that aimed for it, missed and got to watch things go spectacularly awry.

Boston 101

Boston social media National Marketing 101

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one).

Industry 100

Industry social media New York City Retail 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2018

Boston and the areas surrounding New York didn’t get quite as lucky and were actually buried under more than a foot of snow, but the damage was done. Boston, in its ongoing quest to suffer more than any other American city in the winter, didn’t just have more than a foot of snow and more than 50-mile-an-hour winds. The Expected Costs.

Boston 101

Boston Florida New York South Carolina 101

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. Kroger released its Q2 earnings this week, and the market did not love what it saw. That will start solely in New York City, but is intended to roll out more widely. percent increase.

Metro 122

Metro New York City Nashville Oklahoma 122

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The option to buy Kenmore appliances (both smart and standard) on Amazon rolled out to Southern California first, due to strong brand recognition in the area. Availability is expanding through West Coast and Midwest markets this fall and should go nationwide early in 2018. Miscellaneous. Probably not long at all.

Google 118

Google Course Boston California 118

CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

Whether you call it happy hour, apéro, or aperitivo, the couple of hours right after work and before dinner is a key drinking occasion for major alcohol brands. How will food leaders adapt in 2018? This market map includes private companies only and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space.

Industry 64

Industry Branding Capital Trends 64

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. The brand was built on keeping prices low, and stocking shelves with a variety of merchandise categories that would keep consumers coming back week after week. That’s $62,941.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

Retail 109

Retail Examples Boston Mobile 109

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At the same time, the market caps of the top 20 retailers have lost more than $230 billion over the last two years, and mall operators are sucking wind as overstocked anchor stores shutter underperforming locations, which delivers a death knell for the stores that depend on anchor store foot traffic to lure customers in. percent in 1947.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

It’s also a core tenant that I outlined in my January 2018 annual opus on trends that will drive the payments and commerce ecosystem dynamics this year and in the years to come. On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase.

Google 121

Google Data social media Branding 121

Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

According to JD Power, “Nearly 90% of retail banking customers who are highly satisfied with the advice provided by their financial institution say they “definitely will” reuse their bank or credit union for another product” (The Financial Brand). And those abandonment rates? Power 2019 U.S.

Customer Experience 72

Customer Experience Retail San Diego Study 72

PYMNTS

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. Yet, over the last four years, Amazon has gone from 2.2 percent of all retail sales to 6.4

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

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.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

See the investment trends, top deals, and active investors in Q2 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. Source: Bloomberg , June 2018. Source: PYMNTS , July 2018.

Cards 71

Cards Fintech UX Strategy 71

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Using CB Insights’ Earnings Transcript Search Engine, we identified 13 insurers that mentioned telematics or their specific telematics programs on earnings calls since the start of 2018. “We remain one of the leaders in the young drivers telematics market with strong profitability also.” Carrier. . ” N/A.

West Virginia 54

West Virginia Boston US Mobile 54

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Facebook, for example, disclosed that an unprecedented data breach in September 2018 exposed the social media accounts of up to 90M users — including login credentials — effectively compromising access to any site that lets users log in with their Facebook account. Collectively, FAMGA has poured nearly $2.5B Table of contents.

Google 76

Google Apple Security Data 76

Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

According to JD Power, “Nearly 90% of retail banking customers who are highly satisfied with the advice provided by their financial institution say they “definitely will” reuse their bank or credit union for another product” (The Financial Brand). And those abandonment rates? Power 2019 U.S.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Retail San Diego Study 48

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With Brex’s arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards ( see definition below ). Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand.

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With Brex’s arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards ( see definition below ). Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand.

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Verily has also invested in a handful of deals in 2017 and 2018, most notably a $375M investment to Oscar Health in August. Founded: 2015.

Innovation 73

Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Major retailers and brands go local. The retailer has already opened 7 small stores on college campuses this year, with plans to open 3 more by the end of 2018. According to CEO Brian Cornell: “In urban markets like New York or Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and D.C.,

Retail 64

Retail Los Angeles Strategy Community 64

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Welcome to FinovateSpring 2018. HQ: Boston, MA. Stephen Butler (General Manager), Sid Probstein (CTO & VP Professional Services), Alan Swahn (VP Marketing), Percy Johnson (VP Solutions), Alex Levi (VP Sales). HQ: Boston, MA. We license the technology to HW vendors and brands. Website: projectfinance.io.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78