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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Robinhood , the investment app that upended its market by elimination of commissions on stock trades is bringing its brand of disruption to the United Kingdom. It chiefly attracts millennials interested in trading stocks and cryptocurrency. As they grow and that comes to an end, they will just become another brokerage.”.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

The funding will be used for growth initiatives, with an eye on millennials, and a launch of nine new localized sites across the U.S., and select European markets — undertakings that will see hiring accelerate at the company. Our bottom-line results are moving toward profitability exactly as planned.”.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Earlier this week, Hong Kong-listed luxury cosmetics firm L’Occitane International SA announced its intended $900 million acquisition of British beauty and skincare brand Elemis. The deal is the latest in a spate of acquisitions of high-end skincare brands. There are also the efforts of mass market retailers. billion). .

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MARCH 5, 2019

Amid a double-digit increase in digital sales and a focus on omnichannel efforts, Kohl’s Corporation beat analysts’ top-line revenue and earnings estimates for the fourth-quarter of 2018. Rewards and Millennials. The department store retailer reported revenues of $6.8 billion and earnings per share of $2.24 billion and $2.18

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

To match the scale of the Nike effort, marketing and tech updates are important. The brand has dubbed the recycled-luxe aesthetic “rawthentic modernity.”. Nike’s competitors haven’t yet introduced entire new lines, but they have focused on sustainability in marketing and product development. Of those, 12.4

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APRIL 3, 2019

Do millennials cook? One study indicates that the answer is not really — millennials cook two fewer meals per week than their baby boomer counterparts and choose pre-packaged/pre-prepared foods 18 percent of the time, compared to 5 percent for baby boomers. But the data is a bit more complicated that this.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The no-interest, no-fee nature of these solutions intrigues consumers — especially the millennial and Generation Z demographics — searching for alternative payment methods that can grant them further flexibility and convenience while shopping. Around The Buy Now, Pay Later World.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Millennials, on average, are less brand-loyal than their parents or older siblings. They tend to like quality, have a strong preference for shopping online and enjoy a good bargain – but when it comes to buying from a specific brand? Not so much. They are packaged to limit waste and labeled for maximum transparency.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. Unlike her competitor for the title of Generations X’s Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teigen has built a brand around being accessibly aspirational.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

When Gap bought Athleta in 2008 for $150 million, the move didn’t cause much of a stir — beyond being considered a hedge play by the retailer against the exploding popularity of Canadian athleisure brand lululemon , which debuted its initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. We’re not like, ‘Oh, it’s all about millennials.’

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Until recently there was “a consumer” who industry felt it understood, and whose tastes it knew well enough to gauge the market of new products and services. This means that the share of consumers making purchases who do so via voice assistant is up 42 percent since 2018 and up 10 percent since 2019.”.

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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. The explanations given for why vary.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Between 2018 and 2019, there was a 162 percent increase in buy now, pay later (BNPL) downloads – rising to roughly six million – of the most popular new “layaway” apps by the close of last year. Many are leaving credit behind, with approximately 40 percent of millennials fearing credit card debt,” the report states.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

In fact, interest in such games “has soared in the past year, with some companies aggressively targeting collectors from more established markets,” according to the report. No doubt millennials will be blamed for some of this, as they have been scapegoated for the decline of diamonds and certain fast-casual restaurant chains.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

The goal is not to wholly replace credit but to find methods that connect with credit- or debt-shy consumers during the holidays, noted Nick Kaplan, president of fashion brand Fashion To Figure. Fashion To Figure caters to the $21 billion plus size women’s clothing market. Cutting through the holiday buzz .

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MAY 28, 2019

billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 IC3 Chief Donna Gregory said in an announcement, according to reports , “The 2018 report shows how prevalent these crimes are. Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018. Just under $3 billion – or $2.7

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

The brand largely focuses on (and sells to) younger shoppers — particularly millennials and Gen Z. The site in total offers 500 brands for consumers to choose from, of which only 19 are its own label (a little over 4 percent). million unique visitors come to shop its wares each month — and make a move on the public markets.

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MARCH 29, 2018

We engage people with a brand that they usually wouldn’t,” Zellmer said. “We’re We’re conquesting a target group, and engaging them with a brand, who do not want to commit to a three-year lease. are forecasted to decline more in 2018, noted the report. In March, auto sales in the U.S. are likely to come in up 0.4

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JANUARY 8, 2019

By 2016, Chime was in the market with the full suite of features that digital banks offer today. As a pure-play digital bank, Chime offers as its primary product an entirely mobile/digital banking application that gives customers access to a network-branded debit card and a savings account. ”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017. Consequently, some of Home Depot’s strength came from the overall strength of the market. billion investment in improvements across the brand. Since it was real estate that had tanked the economy, the market more or less froze solid for all but the well-capitalized.

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MAY 25, 2018

Following the quarterly check-in with parent firm L Brands , which also owns Bath & Body Works and the youth-oriented PINK lingerie brand, the reviews have not been kind. L Brands slashed its earnings estimates by 8 percent. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70

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MAY 23, 2019

Millennials, Bridge Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z consumers mostly prefer digital banking as their go-to when they interact. For credit unions alone [in] 2015 and 2018, credit union market share of personal lending went from 31 percent to 22 percent. That result, Chambers noted, is just an average.

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JULY 6, 2018

Though millennial parents were hit with nostalgia, when it comes to the world of toy sales going forward, market watchers of all kinds have been asking themselves the same question for weeks: Now what? Geoffrey the Giraffe is, sadly, no more. Even in its declining days, Toys R Us represented some 12 percent of the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. 31, 2018, with a year-end goal of 300 million.) P2P Numbers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

As of 2019 when someone is talking about “whole paychecks” and Amazon, it’s not a joke so much as an explanation of the firm’s approach to the market. The War For Market Share. Today, based on brand-new PYMNTS proprietary analysis, Walmart accounts for roughly 8.9 And that is just the Walmart-centric stuff.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

That was on top of news that Walmart’s increased profit-margin pressure was pushing an annual revenue estimate for 2018 that missed investor expectations. McMillon assured investors that 2018 should see an average eCommerce sales growth rate of 40 percent. This issue, among others, is on Walmart’s priority list for 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. This is revenue drain on brands and has the potential to damage their public image, as well. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Social Media.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As we enter 2018, we are working diligently to improve execution with a focus on conversion, gross margin and inventory management,” CEO Robert Niblock said in a statement. housing market and the increasing transition of the millennial generation into home ownership mode. percent, again ahead of the 3.1 tax reform.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The new features from Instagram (described below) come at a time when mobile is becoming increasingly important to both consumers and retailers — providing opportunity for platforms such as Instagram that can put those two parties together, and do so in ways that more precisely match what consumers might be in the market for.

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APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth. Signs of Traction.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It’s no secret: Millennials are saddled with student loan debt, and they’re facing more expensive rent. We’re focused on giving people the products they need to go have the experiences that they want,” Cameron Hendrick, head of Marketing at Joymode, told PYMNTS. In the future, Joymode could work with brands to promote their products.

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JULY 25, 2019

market as an example of the co-existence and collision of cash and digital payments. Consumers may still champion cash as their preferred method of payment, but its use declined 3 percent as measured between 2015 and 2018. That’s especially true among younger users such as millennials. Ives pointed to the U.S. Firms in the U.S.,

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MAY 24, 2018

Catering to the demands of millennials and Gen Z, brands are putting more emphasis on values such as authenticity, community and supporting social causes. In general, 2018 is on track to break records with the amount of retail real estate going back on the market as failing retailers vacate their claims.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition of LevelUp. Over that time, Grubhub grew both organically — market by market — as well as through a series of acquisitions to gather more hyperlocal restaurant inventory for their platform.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. That’s been the case in markets such as the U.K. The year is 2039. By then, it might be. Sure, more terminals in the U.S.

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