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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg reported this week that Boston-based home décor eCommerce giant Wayfair turned in strong third quarter financials, noting that the firm’s quarterly results “exceeded analysts’ estimates, suggesting the wave of home improvement inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic is lingering.”. percent of overall orders in Q3 2020 in contrast to 67.3

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, Ohio and North Carolina are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020. CVS rolled out three HealthHUB concept stores in Texas close to the conclusion of 2018 and grew the offering to 50 locations in four markets by the end of last year. Pat Carroll, M.D.,

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In its March 2020 brief “Developments in Open Banking and APIs: Where Does the U.S. the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said, “To date, U.S. It’s part of that “stand back” posture the Boston Fed noted in its March brief. isn’t in the lead here, which is okay.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg reported this week that Boston-based home décor eCommerce giant Wayfair turned in strong Q3 financials, noting that the firm’s quarterly results “exceeded analysts’ estimates, suggesting the wave of home improvement inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic is lingering.”. percent of overall orders in Q3 2020 in contrast to 67.3

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tide, the laundry brand owned by CPG Detergent, is introducing a service called Tide Cleaners, an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, at 1,000 locations in cities across the country, according to reports. The company’s goal is to have Tide Cleaners at more than 2,000 spots across the United States by the latter part of 2020.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Saving Main Street.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

For those who operate restaurants or simply enjoy them, 2020 has been a nightmare. Drive-thrus have proven to be exceptionally popular, with visits to them increasing by 26 percent in Q2 2020 and accounting for 42 percent of all restaurant trips during this period. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Bonobos, the men’s clothing brand that began life online and has now pushed into the physical realm, is betting on the tactile experience to boost sales. The first standalone location was in Boston in 2012. With the firm’s founding in 2007, the first Guideshop was at the company’s headquarters in the Flatiron District.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers. That’s caused the sector to balloon in 2020’s first half, and that growth is showing plenty of momentum. We’re talking about the strengths of virtual teams right now, but this is the current landscape.”.

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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. 23-25, 2020. 23-25, 2020. consumers showed that of the 7.75

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JUNE 20, 2019

And rapid growth is expected to boost the market’s value to $38 billion by 2020. At the same time, he noted that they increase speed of service, access, and convenience for the restaurant’s guests while also driving digital sales and building more love for the brand.

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JULY 30, 2019

in early 2020 through an agreement with Uber Eats.”. This rapid growth is expected to boost the market’s value to $38 billion by 2020. Need more evidence of the rise of mobile-order ahead offerings as 2019 gives way to 2020? Mobile represents roughly 60 percent of all digital restaurant orders today. Just look to Google.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. As a high-profile American brand, Subway may have some luck with its plans for international expansion — it plans to open more than 1,000 locations abroad this year — but it appears that America has already moved on. It’s about growing the business.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

In the past two years alone, there have been 650 venture capital investments for artificial intelligence technologies — totaling more than $5 billion — and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is predicting that figure will reach a market value of $70 billion by the year 2020.

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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. The stores are part of the retailer’s strategy to have up to 1,500 locations operating throughout the country by the conclusion of next year.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The internet “and its many apps, online reviews, and socially viral communication speeds will continue to disrupt restaurant industry traffic, revenues, brands, and survivability even more over the next decade,” Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting, told Modern Restaurant Management. Fahmy doesn’t see DineVite competing with other apps.

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MARCH 25, 2019

In fact, she noted, their behavior at the turnstile will much more closely resemble their familiar everyday payments experiences – they will just take out their Mastercard-branded plastic card and, quite literally, tap and go at the turnstile. of our total volume – that they are going to start issuing by the end of 2020.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers, it seems, need additional incentives to get the vaccine, above and beyond immunity to the virus that locked us all indoors all year and seems to be making a concerted effort to cancel Christmas in 2020. Brand-name medications will be priced at 40 percent off, and generics will be discounted by 80 percent. percentage points.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

How will we shop in 2020? MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Follain is a healthy beauty store with locations in Boston, Washington DC, and Nantucket. Funding and investor information is as of 9/6/17. . New Frontiers in Retail Tech. RESTAURANTS.

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Articles via USA Today, Payments Today, The Financial Brand and Bloomberg.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019. of investment banking revenues in 2020, per IBIS World. Biotech firms saw most of the best IPO performances in 2019, but conditions appear to be favoring large software platforms and tech companies once again in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Major retailers and brands go local. According to CEO Brian Cornell: “In urban markets like New York or Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and D.C., While Adidas doesn’t plan to stop manufacturing shoes in Asia, the company aims to produce 1 million pairs of shoes per year between its two Speedfactories by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

For example, a new report from consulting firm Boston Retail Partners states 85% of retailers say that ‘unified commerce’ is a top priority for the year ahead, and many merchants are well on their way. The regular drumbeat of stories about data breaches at brand-name retail chains probably doesn’t help.).

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Loyalty programs will also keep increasing in importance in the coming months, and into 2020. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. Investing in AI technology that really makes a difference to the brand,” Ridgely said. The main problem?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It was a cray cray year for mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in 2021 coming out of COVID slowdown in 2020. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Before getting into banking, he started two tech companies in Asia and was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

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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.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. There were more than 460 data breaches with confirmed data disclosures in the financial industry between Fall 2019 and Fall 2020, according to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations report. It’s in their DNA. fashioned customer service.

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APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

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