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OCTOBER 7, 2020

is the latest newly-formed special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, seeking a ripe investment, the Nation’s Restaurant News reported. and Andrew Pforzheimer, former CEO of the Barcelona and Bartaco brands. His fund has invested in brands including Sweetgreen, Curry Up Now and The Hummus & Pita Co.

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JULY 29, 2020

billion and intends to combine the iconic retailer with the Belk department store chain, the New York Post reported, citing an unnamed source. JCP is the lifeboat for Belk, which wants to compete with Macy’s nationally,” an unnamed source told the Post. Sycamore Partners is reportedly seeking to buy JCPenney for $1.75

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

We received a response from a subscriber explaining the trick that market researchers use to do this. I’m a long time marketing researcher (35+ years) and I learned this trick in my first job back in the mid-80’s. So we did a national survey about what brand was your favorite breakfast sausage.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon and Italian luxury brand Maison Valentino filed a lawsuit against a retailer Thursday (June 18), alleging the company sold counterfeit goods as the trade in the so-called “gray market” continues to draw attention. It’s run through Homeland Security’s National IP Rights Coordination Center.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

The North Face , for instance, is opening a new experiential retail store in the New York City’s SoHo neighborhood as it plans to make existing stores into “basecamps for exploration.”. News surfaced last year that Canada Goose Holdings Inc. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace, as well as its Seamless brand, will be the national delivery partner of Shake Shack, with direct-to-POS integration for order submission as well as menu syncing, the burger chain said in an announcement.

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JUNE 2, 2020

Banana Republic will use its partnerships to donate clothes through a number of affiliated organizations around the country, including Hour Working Women Program in New York, Central City Neighborhood Partners in Los Angeles, Family Focus Englewood in Chicago and more. ” Mark Breitbard , head of Banana Republic and Gap Inc.

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JULY 27, 2018

All of the items in a Five Below are $5 or less (hence the name), and the customers it draws in are those looking to spare their budget, but still purchase items of a certain branded quality. As of this fall, Five Below is coming to New York ‘s Fifth Avenue, arguably the most expensive street in America.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Real estate trends for retailers are back in the news this week, as the pandemic-driven brick-and-mortar market starts to produce new business models and a fair amount of stability. The new business model involves leasing options for the retail sector. Example: One of the U.K.’s retail portfolio valued at $5.9

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JULY 27, 2020

1 chain Pizza Hut (6,296 stores), it’s a subsidiary of Yum Brands , which will report earnings on Wednesday (July 29). Pizza Hut hasn’t yet announced any new hirings, but that might be due to the company having to play catchup with home delivery (which not all locations offered before the pandemic). As for No. No pivot needed.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Stockwell’s founder maintained at the time that the name was meant as an homage to the small (often immigrant-run) grocery shops and corner stores that dot urban neighborhoods in New York City. But the branding came across somewhat differently. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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APRIL 13, 2020

“People are more interested in news about the spread of the virus than they are about the economic data,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at National Securities, said per a CNBC report. “We That’s ignored because we’re listening to who is plateauing … Is New York actually getting better and we see a peak?

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JULY 21, 2019

T-Mobile and Sprint also sold off assets like Sprint’s Boost, Sprint Prepaid and Virgin Mobile brands. . state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in federal court i n New York to block the merger, arguing that the proposed $26 billion deal would cost consumers more than $4.5 In June, a group of U.S. billion annually.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. Ouai , a hair and body care brand founded by celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, will roll out some of its merchandise in 1,200 Ulta Beauty locations in addition to the retailer’s website on Sunday (Jan.

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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. Mostly recently, New York U.S.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

StyleSnap’s recommendations draw on a number of factors, including brand, price range and customer reviews. Slyce is working with retail partners to embrace events outside the store and developing new kiosk technology to work within the store. For its part, Mann’s company is moving in several directions. percent from 2019 to 2025.

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JULY 1, 2016

The accepted wisdom of the current retail reality is that no formerly brick-and-mortar brand can operate in a vacuum from the destabilizing effects of online sales. It would seem as if the cosmetics industry has found a corner of the retail market that Amazon can’t touch – though it’s not for lack of trying.

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APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. Brands without local inventory can use Darkstore’s storage space to ship same-day. The startup reportedly charges brands 3 percent per item that leaves a Darkstore storage space, up to a maximum of $20.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The services are not currently registered as distinct entities, although they are provided to users in the nation. The news comes as a new Indian equalization measure came into existence in 2020 that puts a 2 percent tax on every digital transaction that foreign online shopping firms conduct.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Food trucks have been around since the 1970s, when taco trucks began making the rounds in New York City, but didn’t become a national sensation until 2008 when two events coincided in such a way as to make a long extant — but largely niche — subsegment of the restaurant game into a mass market phenomenon.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

With upgrades to its mobile app and new product offerings, Dunkin’ Brands grew its digital and delivery platforms while rolling out menu innovations with broader customer appeal in the second quarter. The quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand added 46 net new Dunkin’ locations in the U.S., Dunkin ’s U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, SWIFT and Microsoft have teamed with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to finalize the pilot of the Cloud Connect payments solution. SWIFT and Microsoft have teamed with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to finalize the trial of the Cloud Connect payments solution.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Milan, Paris, New York, London and, in recent years, Beijing. billion) fashion industry, as it could shine a spotlight on local brands that often miss international exposure. The term refers to the sudden spike in sales brands tend to see when Markle is publicly photographed in one of their outfits or products.

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MAY 30, 2020

The summer of love in 1969 saw hippies storm Bethel, New York bedecked in bell-bottoms, shag fringed vests and beaded headbands. All are either already on the market or are available for pre-order and delivery over the next few weeks. The history of American fashion trends is bedecked with some strange entries. A face mask.

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MAY 18, 2017

Appear Here’s online marketplace for short-term retail rentals began in London in 2013, and has since expanded nationally to a number of cities in the U.K as well as internationally, breaking into Paris and more recently New York City. The pop-up store is nothing new in concept.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Beautycounter has retail stores in New York City and Denver, eCommerce capabilities and approximately 45,000 sales consultants across North America. In today's underregulated beauty market, however, doing so is extremely challenging.". In addition to Fast Company, it has been recognized by Allure, Glamour, Refinery29 and WWD.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. A show during New York Fashion Week attracted about 100,000 Chinese viewers and netted about 150 million posts to Chinese social network Weibo.

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JUNE 6, 2019

And that seems likely to create new opportunities for certain types of online merchants. News this week (June 5) from France supports those points. And a new recession, as anticipated by many observers, is certain to make such online activity even more attractive to companies and consumers interested in those discounted goods.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Through a pop-up store in New York City, consumers are able to browse and buy gear from official Olympic sponsors, such as Nike, Swatch and Oakley. In addition to running Team USA’s pop-up shop — and eCommerce site — Fanatics is a major player in the licensed sports apparel market, selling fan merchandise for U.S. The Economics.

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JULY 30, 2020

Putting the “hospital” in Butler Hospitality , the New York-based hotel room service startup found itself this past spring in a city overrun by frontline workers of every description, setting up field hospitals in Manhattan’s most famous greenspaces as medical ships anchored. The concept is just this side of brilliant.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

But Walmart had some tech upgrades of its own to announce, and the company was the source of some of the week’s more interesting speculation as market watchers began to openly wonder if it could be the buyer that GrubHub may (or may not) be looking for. In the home alone, Amazon reported 100,000 smart home products from over 9,500 brands. “It

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APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. Digital orders for local pizzerias is a largely untapped market. But many markets outside those areas are underserved. The Delivery Business.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 23, 2019

The next day they announced they were selling to Valley National Corp. ORIT has historically been a high performing financial institution in a highly concentrated deposit market. Cost savings opportunities, attractiveness of markets, niches or specialties, seller's capitalization, buyers' stock valuations, etc. for $16.29

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JANUARY 21, 2020

The good news, said Carter, fresh off her most recent trip to the National Retail Federation (NRF), is that merchants and are very well aware that retail — and the role of physical retail in it — is changing. However, they do like seeing relevant marketing and personalized curation in the products put in front of them.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There has been no shortage of food fads, dietary crazes and “restaurant of the future” concepts that have played out nationwide, most of which the brand has politely passed on. And that has presented a challenge to the Red Robin brand.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

National Health and Nutrition Survey, which assessed how many Americans are on board with the “principles of healthy living” – a good diet, moderate exercise, not smoking and keeping body fat under control. Instead, it is simply trying to bring the brand to a broader set of customers and get them in touch with the experience.

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