Independent Banker

JANUARY 27, 2016

“It’s becoming more and more important for community banks to emphasize that they have the same products and services as large banks.” Eric Morse counters megabanks through judicious marketing and branding. Mental cobwebs of outdated perceptions can sometimes be hard for a community bank to shake off. Boston native.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region. Mayo said it can actually lose those brands customers because the business is not thinking about the food system as a whole. she said — though local food can still be difficult to get.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Google, for instance, has its Midwest headquarters in the former Fulton Market Cold Storage building. Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new offices will be located on the top three floors at 100 Binney St. San Francisco, California.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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APRIL 14, 2020

There’s nothing like being in a class physically with a community and an instructor. Peloton, for example, took the market by storm with its connected fitness bikes that allow members of the greater community to tap into live classes and pre-recorded content with fellow riders from around the world. It’s not the same, right?”

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JULY 19, 2018

.” And while she first encountered the problem of middling to low-quality kids’ clothing in the hospital, Royer quickly realized it was more or less an epidemic issue in the market for baby clothes in general. The brand has expanded in both its digital and physical presence, boasting 250 percent year-over-year growth.

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article Gallery: Priming Your Social Media Strategy for Amazon’s Prime Day appeared first on The Financial Brand. Prime Day is a great marketing opportunity for banks and credit unions. This article Gallery: Priming Your Social Media Strategy for Amazon’s Prime Day appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” sweetgreen. Total Disclosed Funding: $122M.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

There is no shortage of startups that enter the wild world of direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail to address a hole in the market that leaves a massive number of consumers underserved. The first of which, he said, was that all of these big brands weren’t really focused on runners and running as of the early 21st century.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. For the past four-plus years, Chesler has guided Glacier through continued growth and successful acquisitions across the West, all while staying true to Glacier’s local market culture. GonzoBanker of the Year – Credit Union.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Major retailers and brands go local. Target uses community research to effectively stock small stores. For example, a small-format store located in a neighborhood with many young families will stock more family-related and children’s items, while stores in culturally diverse communities may stock a wider variety of food options.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2015.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

“You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International. In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

What’s the market strategy? Branded version is available. ^KT. This is an extension of business services, powered by a local community bank. This certainly adds a lot of technological capacity to the community bank. Malauzai enables the community bank to build their own app, “local mobile wallets.”

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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.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

And because it’s so valuable — and not well understood — the scope of exactly what the big tech brands have been collecting is only recently being recognized by the general public. Its market cap seemed unaffected until July 2018, when Facebook lost around 20% of its value in one day off of news of slowing user growth.

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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.

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JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts).

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APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. And monetize. And the more money they make.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The businesses that we track and profile in our Store Front Index — the home remodelers, salons, spas, small retailers, delis, coffee shops and restaurants that contribute to the health and vitality of the local communities — are not only declining, they’re not even getting off the starting blocks. But maybe that’s the good news.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. Kohl’s can move into smaller markets where a larger store may not fit.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2018

And though Publix has closely guarded its turf – particularly in its home state of Florida – in 2015, Safeway took over three Albertsons stores and poured $30 million in bringing the West Coast brand to Publix country. Instead, it is floating a different type of test balloon in the market by opening one of its Lucky’s Markets in Delray Beach.

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JUNE 29, 2018

JetSmarter applies the same social, sharing economy approach to air travel, enabling travelers to capitalize on available seats on existing flights — or create a flight of their own and crowdsource the seats they don’t need to the rest of the JetSmarter community. We’ll fly out of Boston at 9:00 a.m. At least, that’s the idea.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. Brands will be able to lease space for a relatively short period of time – six months to one year – in a variety of designs, from standard cubes to triangles and receptacles.

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