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With a round led by ACA Investments, comparison shopping platform iPrice Group has notched $10 million in Series B funding. The round also came with participation from Daiwa PI Partners as well as returning investors Asia Growth Fund, Mirae Asset-Naver, and Line Ventures, according to reports.

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JUNE 8, 2018

After news surfaced in May that Golden Gate Capital was considering a merger of Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear of California , the private equity firm has created a new operating company comprised of the two retailers. Both brands have made great progress in the past 24 months and have generated strong performance.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

JD.com and the biggest retailer in Thailand, Central Group, have launched a financial services app called Dolfin to help connect with local banks and increase the companies’ online presence, according to a report by Reuters. The app has e-wallet capabilities, digital lending services and wealth and insurance management.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

McCrary noted that consumers are looking for ways to manage price volatility. The only thing that wasn’t price-related in the top five priority issues for drivers was the group of consumers who stated a preference for apps that could provide them with directions to the nearest gas station — with the best prices. More than half (57.4

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JULY 31, 2020

Authentic Brands Group ( ABG ), the New York-based brand management company, could be the latest potential buyer of Ascena Retail Group , the recently bankrupt parent firm of Ann Taylor, Footwear News reported. The New Jersey-based company operates about 3,000 stores, mostly at malls.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Sequoia Capital has agreed to invest around 6 billion euros in Auto1 Group before the online car trading platform's initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. The company plans to put three-quarters of the money it raises back into its business, including the Autohero brand. 18), citing anonymous sources.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Too often, however, the reconciliation becomes an afterthought in the spend management process, and can be even more difficult for a company’s accounting department to address if paper receipts get lost. Those headaches could become a thing of the past, as new solutions integrate spend management solutions directly into company operations.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

billion deal went through, shareholders and the public are learning more about what will come of the 30 brands and more than 5,700 properties. Earlier this month, he released that all Starwood-managed hotels were adopting Avendra, which is a the purchasing platform that Marriott had been using prior to the merger. After the $13.3

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The banking group has started reaching out to possible bidders, but still hasn’t made a definitive decision as to whether it will actually sell the unit, which specializes in store-branded credit cards, according to a Bloomberg report. Others are operating in a less constrained way.”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Answear.com sells brands including Levi's, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Jeans, according to its website. MCI management team member Maciej Kowalski told Bloomberg the shift of Poles to digital commerce has accelerated so much because of the pandemic that the “process can't be stopped now.”.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Berlin-based Auto1 Group said on Wednesday (Jan. Auto1 said it would put about three-quarters of that back into its business, which includes its Autohero website brand. Auto1 said it would put about three-quarters of that back into its business, which includes its Autohero website brand. Auto1 serves both consumers and dealers.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Citi executives asked for the money back, saying it was paid inadvertently due to an operational error, sources said. District Court in New York accused Revlon of moving valuable brand assets beyond the reach of lenders in order to use them as collateral for other creditors. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Founded in 1984, BinDawood operates 73 stores across Saudi Arabia with 10,000 employees. Bloomberg reported that BinDawood is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., If the IPO is successful, it would come on the heels of a February offering by Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Services Group Co., a hospital operator that raised 2.63

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

“While the unprecedented business disruption caused by COVID-19 has presented many challenges, it has also given us the opportunity to reimagine our platform and improve our business,” said Neiman Marcus Group CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck in a statement. “We The plan was approved by the U.S.

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MAY 1, 2020

The executive will have a “supervisory role” in its service and will offer advice to the founder and management on important business decisions, according to a post on OYO’s blog. OYO Hotels & Homes Founder and Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal said in the post, “We are delighted to welcome Troy to OYO’s board of directors.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Automotive brands are taking control of digital buying platforms by unveiling new experiences for the leasing, financing or purchasing of new vehicles amid the pandemic. The brand’s Monogram technology offers a connected experience throughout Lexus.com, the dealership website and the brick-and-mortar dealership. 1) announcement. "Our

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A group of 165 companies and industry associations — from the U.S. Paytronix has launched Paytronix Subscriptions, a subscription-building product that will allow any restaurant or convenience store to set up and manage a subscription program for its customers. and elsewhere as the BaaS platform grows its global footprint.

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MAY 28, 2020

The Pega team consists of a rational, forward thinking, and extremely dynamic group of people who strongly believe in doing the right thing,” Udy Sharma , Director, Automation continues. As a result, you get to know everyone in the group really well and will most likely work with them all at some point. Be Part of an Inclusive Team.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Social-Commerce-as-a-Service app PowerBuy has rolled out its Multi Product PowerBuy group buying functionality, which is now available via the Shopify app store. Retailers on Shopify can now add social group purchasing to their eCommerce storefronts, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 21) announcement.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Home services platform Porch Group is branching out with the acquisition of four digital platforms that will expand its Total Addressable Market (TAM) by almost $100 billion, Porch said in a Friday (Jan. HOA is licensed in 31 states but currently operates in just six. 15) press release.

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JULY 30, 2019

The former president of the global services group at American Express will join Visa as its chief risk officer on September 3, according to a press release. He will also be the main contact person for the regulatory agencies tasked with oversight of Visa in the more than 200 countries in which it operates.

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JULY 21, 2020

Adevinta operates in 15 countries and its portfolio includes nearly three dozen digital products and websites. The San Jose, California-based online selling mega corporation’s classifieds’ platforms include a dozen brands in 13 countries. The combined company expands its reach to 20 nations. “We

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JUNE 10, 2019

Oracle has announced new enhancements for its Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service , which will enable retailers to monitor the integrity of their materials and end products. The biggest names in grocery rely on Oracle Retail Brand Compliance to meet these expectations, while protecting their customers and brands.”

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MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. Currently, there are only a few established national brands processing ERC at scale (CPAs will do it for you on a one-off basis). The largest risk is headline risk.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

FreshDirect will retain its brand name, report to a seven-person board, and continue to independently operate in New York City. Delhaize, founded in 2016 from a merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group, is among the biggest supermarket operators in the U.S. Morgan Asset Management.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Some operations like Chipotle are even rolling out store designs that feature pick-up windows to let order-ahead diners collect their items without having to enter the restaurant. based QSRs draw millennials consumers, with half of this age group reporting that they place more deliveries now than they did two years ago.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Interested parties include Blackstone Group, TPG, Naspers and German publishing company Axel Springer. eBay’s classifieds operate mostly overseas, and it’s similar to a site like Craigslist, where users can post goods for sale. In addition, eBay has started looking into other potential buyers.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

FIS , a global leader in financial services technology, announced that it has connected LVMH Group to the SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi). LVMH Group plans to expand its SWIFT gpi implementation across its full cross-border payment network, which processes more than 1.5 million payments annually.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Simon Property Group Inc. Michigan-based Taubman manages, owns or leases 26 malls in Asia and the U.S., The Taubman family will sell approximately a one-third of its ownership interest in Taubman and will still be a 20 percent owner in the operating subsidiary of its eponymous real estate company. . a competing owner of malls.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, if BaaS is ever going to enhance shareholder value, bankers need to ensure they have the strategic focus, operational savvy, and execution commitment to do it right. infrastructure and the capacity to manage a BaaS strategy to significantly complement the core business. 4: Not every fintech will scale to “white whale” status.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

The friction inherent in the basic operations of many healthcare services — from complex payment processing methods to inconsistent appointment management practices — became more salient against the backdrop of the pandemic. Now, healthcare providers have to work to maintain loyalty just like any other brand.

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MAY 8, 2020

The funds will be managed by Ron Bloom, managing partner and vice chairman of Brookfield’s private equity arm, who said the focus would be on helping small businesses get back on their feet. “We GGP had previously teamed with Simon Property Group, the biggest mall owner in the country, to buy Aeropostale.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Media in China reported that the company told its staff about the news, and that the new research group will be in charge of pushing the company forward in the digital payments ecosphere by using blockchain. Tencent is also currently looking for a leader of the research group.

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MARCH 3, 2020

There are a few large retail companies that could potentially buy eBay Korea, like Lotte Shopping, Shinsegae or Hyundai Department Store Group. Potential interested parties include Blackstone Group, TPG, Naspers and German publishing company Axel Springer, among others. Also, private equity fund MBK could potentially be interested.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The companies said in a statement that in addition to the investment, they will both “explore partnership opportunities in service operations, logistics and digital retailing.”. Cox Automotive has quite a few services, including fleet management , digital retailing and logistics.

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