PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Shoppers can pick out a gift box to send to a relative in Florida, for example. The company carries brands such as the Detroit Spice Company and Lush Gourmet (Nuts). While local products can be amazing, it can be challenging for small brands to gain traction.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Bank of America is taking a closer to look at its clients that make guns after the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida that killed 17 people. “We This statement comes as many have called for a boycott of companies that do business with the National Rifle Association (NRA).

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

In addition to New York, the program is now available for SNAP recipients in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Oregon and Washington. brand, is accepting online EBT payment at select locations. ShopRite, a Wakefern Food Corp.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Instead, the retailer is directing customers to liquidation sales at its brick-and-mortar stores for both its namesake and Babies R Us brands, industry news source Chain St ore Age reported. The news comes as several national retailers have shown an interest in the toy retailer’s brick-and-mortar locations.

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The Financial Brand

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A small Florida bank seeks to fill a niche by serving riskier businesses — nationally — that other financial institutions shy away from. The post Why (and How) a Community Bank Cultivates Crypto & Cannabis Clients appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

For the entire nation. That is not a typo,” our coverage reassured readers, while adding the equally bizarre fact that “all of those ticket sales came from just one place” – the Ocala Drive-In of Ocala, Florida. Brand-New Competitors, Same Old Pricing Pressures. Welcome to movie-going in the age of the novel coronavirus.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“Bud” Paxson, the owner of a radio station in Florida, had a challenge one day in the 1970s: He was short on money and payday was approaching. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Arthur Tek recalled in a 1995 Florida Trend article, “He sold them all out the same day … he said, ‘There’s something to this.’”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. It launched the first executive education course focused on direct selling last week in Winter Park, Florida.

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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. In Florida, for example, Target and Aldi are considering a store located near college campuses. Just under 60 “qualified bids” are under consideration, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

“You had a seismic shift in spending patterns, where a lot of card-present transactions all of a sudden moved to eCommerce,” Carlos Mejia, chief digital executive at Florida-based Pacific National Bank (PNB), said in a recent PYMNTS interview. You’re really wanting to start with almost a brand new transaction history.” .

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Fraud Cards Tools Florida 180

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

24), Krispy Kreme is the latest brand to announce home delivery capabilities. The brand will send boxed coffee as well as doughnuts by the dozen. Krispy Kreme first began testing online ordering and delivery in 2018, and will now roll out the program nationally. As reported by PYMNTS on Monday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

We have a significant level of awareness,” said Andrew Louie, brand manager of refreshment beverages at Kool-Aid’s modern corporate parent company, Kraft. The brand continues to be extremely popular, even though it’s over 50 years old.”. Louis, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Jacksonville, Florida. 11 through Aug.

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Nebraska Jacksonville Oklahoma Florida 131

PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

The National Restaurant Association recently reported that the industry lost $120 billion during the pandemic’s first three months and that these losses could total $240 billion by the end of the year. The Tampa, Florida-based chain was publicly held until 2017, when it was purchased by Oak Hill Capital Partners for $525 million.

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Mobile Tampa Study Florida 143

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Local jurisdictions impose their own taxes on domestic cigar sales, with tax levels currently ranging from 0 percent in Pennsylvania and Florida to 95 percent in Minnesota and Washington state. Sales taxes are “pretty devastating” in this industry, Rogers admitted. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

If I’m a brand, I’m trying to figure out: How can I expose my brand” across marquee names, such as Nordstrom, Macy’s or even Louis Vuitton, “that they know who I am obviously, and they have the ability to spend?”. Many of those travelers are beginning to explore what Badran termed “Middle America,” with stops at national parks.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Sure, the craftsmanship might not be quite so fine, the material somewhat less than the finest on the market, and the label and branding marks just ever so slightly askew, but the reality is, that while some people can spot a fake from far off, the vast majority of people just aren’t looking that closely. The longer story?

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Arguments that were thrust back into the spotlight last week after Tesla revealed that a driver using the Autopilot feature on its Model S was killed on a Florida highway in May after the vehicle drove into a tractor-trailer. drivers were “afraid” to ride in a self-driving car.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

travelers looking to step into the once-forbidden country, and Florida-based Stonegate Bank amplified the chatter with news this month that it would become the first U.S. brand, Four Points by Sheraton, since 1959. Since, financial services restrictions have also eased, and finserv players are slowly trickling into Cuba.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Benson Porter, Boeing Employees CreditUnion – Porter led BECU through an amazing streak of growth in the Pacific Northwest, all while building an innovative, stakeholder-driven brand respected nationally. Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank.

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Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

All in, Walmart plans to spend $173 upgrading in Florida, $265 million in Texas and $145 million in California. Walmart has also expanded its private-label brand offerings in apparel, with Terra & Sky, Wonder Nation and Time and Tru, among others. Walmart announced plans this week to revamp 500 of its U.S. The Drama Pt.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

But in some cases, backlash, Stack said, is worth it — and in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, DICK’S management team said they’re ready to withstand it. “As And DICK’S wasn’t the only big brand looking to change its role in this story. “The hunt business is an important part of the business, no doubt about it.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 7, 2015

EverBank figures include acquisition of Bank of Florida deposits of $1.5 The national powerhouses are proving that the “Occupy Wall Street” mood from several years back did not stop these national brands from scaling, and it’s clear that players like Chase, Wells and Bank of America are scaling their digital customer base very effectively.

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Digital Banking Industry Capital Strategy 60

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The companies below were selected based on the recency and size of their disclosed funding and their Mosaic score, CB Insights’ National Science Foundation-backed algorithm that uses financial and non-financial signals to predict private company health. Headquarters: Tampa, Florida. Research Briefing: Fitness Tech.

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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. per month,” said Stephenie Landry, VP of Amazon’s grocery delivery.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Once the 24 competitors (tributes) get to the games, they then battle to the death for a national audience that is required by law to watch the games. When linked to the Amazon Chase card, the cash-back makes the experience even more of a win, in addition to serving as a natural pull toward card/brand share shift. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Speaking of disjointed, McCall said there have been two major fragmentations that keep brands from reaching consumers as effectively as they could. If a brand wanted to reach most of America, McCall said, it went to those three mediums. Because it’s National Pancake Day. flock to Panama City, Florida to party it up.

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Data social media Branding Florida 117

PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

Investor optimism in spite of the news perhaps indicates faith in the cost-cutting measures Whole Foods has pursued, along with boosting its less-expensive 365 brand. based brands, and less dramatic than Whole Foods’ rise. The National Association of Convenience recently reported that non-gasoline sales at U.S.

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Texas Louisiana Oklahoma Retail 101

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. Americans dine out more than ever before.

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CB Insights

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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Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But why then, you might ask, are so many pure-play eTailers, whose target audience is the millennial — like The RealReal and Rent The Runway , new marketplaces like OfferUp , deal aggregators like Groupon , alt lenders like SoFi and alt lending platforms like LendingTree — buying pricey blocks of airtime on CNN and CNBC to promote their brands?

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