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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Collaborating with Afterpay gives our customers the power of choice when shopping across our family of brands,” John Strain , chief digital and technology officer at Gap, said in a statement on Wednesday (Nov. Participating Gap brands include Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. . “By We are proud to partner with Gap Inc.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. Millennials Were Black Friday’s Big Spenders in 2019. Millennials were the big Black Friday spenders , shelling out an average of $509.50 Top News . operations.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Though it was their grandparents that gave rise to modern American consumer culture, millennials often get dinged for being too obsessed with having the latest and greatest gadgets. The most pressing case for the youth of America’s lack of interest in paper napkins comes from a Mintel survey on household paper product usage for Feb.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

New eco-friendly shopping platform Hive Brands aims to be a Whole Foods of sustainable products. 390 : Minimum number of stores Charming Charlie had at its height in North America, the Middle East and the Philippines. 75% : Share of millennials who are actively changing their consumption habits to help the environment.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America and the traditional banking system is being disrupted across a wide variety of core revenue streams. . Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B. However, both brands have expanded to additional products, such as Venmo’s credit card and Cash App’s stock investing offering. .

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Millennials and Generation Z consumers are embracing buy now, pay later (BNPL) plans as a way to responsibly purchase items without incurring fees or debt in the process. In fact, 93 percent of millennial BNPL app users have not been subjected to late fees. but it plans to expand in both countries. in 2016 and moved all its U.S.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year will not only go down in history as “the year of the pandemic,” but for consumer packaged goods brands, it will also be known as “the year of direct to consumer.”. 1 reason cited involves loyalty to well-known brands. This suggests that D2C does well in areas where consumers have strong brand preferences.

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NCR

JUNE 29, 2016

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. Source: The Millennial Disruption Index.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

Part of this restructuring includes, also according to the release, a new brand-centric structure that focuses on four global brand teams: Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Fragrances and Portfolio Brands. The goal is to optimize and build brand equity while connecting successfully with consumers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. It provides an exhaustive and statistically reliable portrait of the connected consumer in America. consumers shop and pay — today and in the future. This group of 60 million U.S.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

“Nutritional content is a primary concern for new product development in mature markets such as North America and Europe. To add value and give products a health halo, cereal brands incorporate ancient grains, superfoods, probiotics, or seeds and nuts.”. The past few weeks have seen all of these trends – and more – manifest themselves.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

making paying in-store more convenient, secure and contactless,” Nick Molnar, Afterpay co-founder and chief executive for North America, said in a prepared statement. Molnar said: “We see millennial and Gen Z customers absolutely shopping, and the brands that deeply understand them are growing at faster rates than they have ever grown before.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Corelle Brands has been around for a while — like 100 years. By today’s standards, it looks anything like an innovative brand. Corning didn’t invent heat-resistant glass when it rolled out its branded version of Pyrex. Yes, Instant Pot-side chats are the fireside chats of the millennial generation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

million-plus millennials in the country. . Douugh partnered with Mastercard earlier this year and rolled out a co-branded Douugh debit card in the U.S. ”We The Savings Jar component is structured to assist Douugh users with picturing and pursuing their savings goals. There is a waiting list in the U.S.

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FICO

JUNE 9, 2016

Millennials, now the largest demographic group in America, are possibly the most misunderstood, elusive market ever, a notion underscored by The Wall Street Journal ’s article about the existence of $20,000-per-hour “Millennial consultants.” Millennials reward positive fraud outcomes. At least not yet.

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PYMNTS

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. billion), while Unilever snapped up Carver Korea Co. billion euros ($2.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

These are particularly popular among Gen Zers, the up-and-coming generation that is starting to nudge millennials out of the headlines. HSEL connects more than 1,500 high school virtual sports clubs across North America. The lifestyle retailer will donate $10,000 to HSEL’s scholarship prize pool.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

The stores will be located at Minneapolis’ Mall of America, Orlando’s Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort and in Berlin, Germany, Fox Business reported. There is a role brands need to play to bring it to life outside of that aisle , which is why these M&M’s stores are so important.”. and around the world by next year.

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APRIL 13, 2017

In a press release , the companies said the combined business will operate under the GSTV brand and deliver 3.3 We celebrate a milestone today as we formally join two leading media organizations in a powerful partnership,” said Joe Mach, president of Verifone North America, in the press release.

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MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., percent over that time frame.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The brand has dubbed the recycled-luxe aesthetic “rawthentic modernity.”. All cartons bought in North America, for example, are made from 100 percent recycled materials.) To match the scale of the Nike effort, marketing and tech updates are important. Of those, 12.4 percent would be willing to spend more than 20 percent, and 40.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In September, Bank of America announced that it would roll out a Premium Rewards credit card that offers customers unlimited points that never expire. The Millennials Cometh. We are talking here, of course, about millennials. In fact, more than half of FIs plan to focus on digital wallets over the next three years.

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MAY 25, 2017

it is also making inroads in America, announcing in April Alipay will be linking with Visa to establish a new payment method targeted to millennials, enabling acceptance at any online merchant that accepts Visa Checkout. While AliPay is expanding outside of the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

This challenge is seen across the spectrum of consumers, but it’s most acutely noticeable among older or bridge millennials — consumers between the ages of 30 and 40 who are buying houses, having children and beginning to settle into their roles as the drivers of commerce in the U.S. So, what’s a brand to do?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The new funding is an outcropping of the Series G round unveiled in August for the firm, which is said to have helped millennials become interested in trading. Trading FinTech Robinhood Markets Inc. has grown the size of its newest investment round to $660 million. FIS, TCH Partner To Connect Small Banks, CUs To RTP.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Several major banks and FIs — including Bank of America, Discover and Wells Fargo, among others — offer cash back rewards on their credit card products to entice customers and encourage brand loyalty. For millennials, these cards simply don’t induce the same debt-based anxieties as credit cards. Winning the millennial market.

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MARCH 29, 2018

Klaus Zellmer, Chief Executive of Porsche North America, told CNBC that the program, which is just live in Atlanta since November, is attracting drivers who wouldn’t typically drive their cars. “We We engage people with a brand that they usually wouldn’t,” Zellmer said. “We’re

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MARCH 1, 2017

Brian Billingsley, CEO North America at Klarna , joined Karen Webster to discuss those partnerships and the benefits that it believes its more streamlined financing options can bring to the consumer purchasing experience.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

With the system, drivers of eligible Buick, GMC, Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles can find gas stations and make payments at 11,000 Shell-branded fuel stations in North America from within their vehicles. Sixty-two percent of bridge millennials say that if an app is convenient, they might use it to pay at a gas station.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Loyalty rewards for shoppers are not new to the Gap , or its associated brands, Banana Republic, Athleta and Old Navy. For those who carry either the branded Gap card, or the Gap Mastercard (or anyone who has ever been part of a retail rewards program), the offerings are fairly familiar. We have a successful Gap, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And yet others have laid cereal at the feet of millennials bent on destroying every American institution – up to and including Captain Crunch. According to one study , about 40 percent of millennials report that preparing cereal is simply too difficult of a process to take on first thing in the morning.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Although some customers ( millennials : cough, cough) may value convenience above all else, that youthful sense of fiscal invincibility does not extend to their elders, who place a higher premium on transaction security. Millennials may be less concerned with risk. Trust is not always based on facts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Almost half – 43 percent of high-income millennials – said they would be more likely to visit a gas station if its app offered them convenience, loyalty and savings, according to the PYMNTS Paying At The Pump report. In a June interview with PYMNTS, GasBuddy CEO Sarah McCrary explained that customers rarely shop by brand.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem. In a discussion with PYMNTS on Wednesday (Feb. billion catalogs were sent to U.S.

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PYMNTS

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. Pop-Up Toy Stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

It looks as though millennials may soon face competition as the generation to watch. According to a new study from HRC Retail Advisory , Generation Z is expected to make up nearly 40 percent of the population of North America by the year 2020 – easily making them the generation retailers must be paying attention to.

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