Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Respondents also indicated a 23% increase in purchase intent for brands and companies with responsible data practices. The privacy of customers’ personal information is at the forefront of every community banker’s decisions, says Steven Estep, ICBA assistant vice president of operational risk. Tom Tollerton, Forvis LLP. Effective Jan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

With several Toys R Us stores on the auction block, several national retailers have shown an interest in the embattled toy retailer’s brick-and-mortar locations. Beyond retailers, real estate investment trusts (REITs) are interested in the stores: Federal Realty and Urstadt Biddle reportedly plan to bid on the same store in California.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

liquidators Gordon Brothers Retail Partners LLC and Hilco Merchant Resources LLC and licensing firm Authentic Brands Group, swooped in at the last minute to win ownership of the struggling retail chain in a bankruptcy auction with a joint offer of $243.3 But a consortium of retail property landlords, including Simon Property Group Inc.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

unemployment rate, even as the nation engages in its annual celebration of workers. Something where you can influence a brand or a product, it's cool, and you feel like these people who interview you actually listen to you,” she said. “It In Meechukant’s case, that was a Thai restaurant in Santa Ana, California.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The latest pop-up developments concern the Hollister apparel brand , which is owned by Abercrombie & Fitch. Those temporary stores also provide a way for eCommerce operators to connect with more customers in the physical real and further their own brick-and-mortar plans. Pop-Up Costs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s no wonder more than three-fourths (78 percent) of operators considered off-premises programs strategic priorities. . While drive-thrus can be a source of retail innovation , traditional operations aren’t what they used to be. and Canada, allying itself with other brands and services. Biometric Kiosks Speed Orders.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

One of the remarkable stories of the meal-kit business has been the success of Plated , whose locally sourced, organic food business took a while to get going, but created national buzz after appearing on Shark Tank. The buzz became so powerful that the Albertsons supermarket chain decided to acquire the firm for $300 million in 2017.

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JUNE 11, 2020

The Irvine, California-based company’s move into its “do it for me” (DIFM) installation solutions for the automotive aftermarket industry led to its highest monthly performance in April. With more than 30 years of experience in the home installation industry, Todd Banhidy , CEO of Buy It Installed Inc.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Under the terms of the deal, FreshDirect will keep its brand name, be supervised by a seven-member board and continue its independent operations in New York City. The funds, according to the firm, will go toward expanding the online grocery business nationally. Online grocer Farmstead has announced that it has picked up $7.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. It started with an announcement that a California Kroger subsidiary — Foods Co — would stop accepting Visa credit cards (but not debit cards) at 21 of its grocery stores and five of its gas stations, effective Aug. 14 of this year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2017

Google and its parent company Alphabet are also ramping up their altruistic activities worldwide, with new investments in African tech, skills, and startups; new languages supported by its speech-to-text technology; and a collaboration with ProPublica on a national Hate Crime Index for the U.S. Android Oreo Confirmed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. All in, Walmart plans to spend $173 upgrading in Florida, $265 million in Texas and $145 million in California. told Adweek. Those remodels will add on to the roughly $2.2

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. Roshan McArthur is a writer in California. We stood this up from zero to fully operational in two weeks,” Goldfeder says.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

times tangible book for the attractive geographic footprint of BBVA weeks before the COVID vaccine starts to ship should spell accretion and strong future strategic positioning for PNC, especially in Texas where a brain drain from California led by Elon Musk will continue. John Beale , longtime CIO of City National Bank. Nicely done!

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What I really want to do is build the biggest brand on the planet,” Plank recently told Bloomberg. “I Facebook moved to its new 430,000 square foot campus in Menlo Park, California 2015, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “the largest open floor plan in the world,” but the company was largely removed from the city itself.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Take the clothing and accessories brand TOMS , for instance. The company operates on a “one-for-one” business model, which means that it donates one pair of shoes or glasses to communities in third-world countries for every pair sold to a first-world consumer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

However, Amazon’s most eye-catching grocery announcement this year was the news that it intends to open a new Amazon-branded grocery store in the near (but unspecified) future in California. The Walmart Health center expands upon the service menu that Walmart offers at the 19 Care Clinics it already operates. “We

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Union has been a stalwart of the California marketplace since the ’50s, and this gives Andy Cecere and team a great expansion into the Golden State and also some nice wholesale banking business. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis.

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CB Insights

JUNE 11, 2018

In many ways, Apollo resembles Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Google’s open software platform for a mobile operating system (OS) that launched in 2007. Additionally, when naming the national champions of AI in November, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology designated Baidu as the leader in autonomous driving.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A chief financial officer and his or her team can not only spend hours managing B2B payment operations, but employees can also introduce risk into every step along the way. It is quite clear that it’s time for the payables operation to take advantage of automation,” said Oren Zeev, founding partner of ?Zeev Sub-Brands.

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CB Insights

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. Next Level Burger (Washington, California).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This was a terrific combination of two education-focused cooperatives across both Southern and Northern California markets. Niche Payments Acquisition Award – Goes to City National Bank for its acquisition of FilmTrak. The Branding Name-Thud Award – Goes to BB&T + Suntrust becoming Truist. Credit Union Merger of the Year.

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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.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

In her first semester at Southwest Minnesota State University, she majored in Computer Science and learned quite a lot about terminals, using Jedit, and also learned about gates and machine languages operating off binary numbers. Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Solyndra intended to use the funding to dramatically expand its manufacturing facilities in Fremont, California, in a move that the company said would create approximately 3,000 new jobs. Coda’s unsold vehicles were later acquired by Mullen Technologies, an electric vehicle company based in California.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Even luxury brands are contributing to this problem. In this report, we examine how fashion brands are leveraging technology to make clothing production and consumption more sustainable, from the use of plant-based textiles and bacteria-based dyes to leveraging a blockchain-based supply chain to increase transparency.

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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. “We’re in a test-and-learn phase as we consider what other investment routes we should explore.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

THE BANKER AWARDS The Bank Acquisition of the Year – goes to the unique PacWest and Banc of California deal. Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank. Expect more deals to be announced in 2024.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Over 1M millennial women are becoming mothers every year, meaning Gen Y now makes up the majority of annual births in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Many millennial consumers are looking beyond older, legacy coffee brands to blends from boutique “third-wave” coffee roasters.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Presenter Profile: How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes. We license the technology to HW vendors and brands. These folks are based in California and have raised at least million in funding.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

One such company is California-based startup Mya. AI is automating different branding and marketing efforts, and creating personalized campaigns, targeted messaging, personalized website experience, and social media sentiment analysis. Its customers include National Instruments, Hitachi, and Comcast. COMPLIANCE OFFICERS.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Behaviosec’s technology recognizes if a conflicting user is operating a device by monitoring the environment, rhythms, and interaction patterns that are unique to each user. Lleida.net, as a telecom operator, acts as a trusted third party. Spreedly APIs minimize the complexity, cost, and risk of PCI compliance and payment integration.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The industry has seen massive consolidation, as companies like Hormel and Brazil-based JBS have grown bigger and bigger through the acquisition of new meat brands and products. Another prominent deal was the 2013 acquisition of US-based Smithfield Foods, which owns brands such as Armour and Farmland.

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