PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Private equity-backed Inspire Brands will be buying Dunkin' Donuts and bringing it private for a whopping $11.3 Dunkin’ Brands CEO Dave Hoffmann noted the acquisition was a testament to the progress Dunkin’s had made and maintained during the global pandemic leaving the brand “stronger than ever.”. “We Inspire’s Many Brands .

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Major retailers are pitching premium baby care products at a less-than-premium price tag with the help of exclusive brands: Walmart is offering Hello Bello exclusively at its stores and its website (and that of the brand). It is also reportedly the inaugural brand rolled out under a platform called Launched.LA.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, Inspire Brands is buying Dunkin’ for $11.3 That Its Brands Can Run on Dunkin’. After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3 After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 29, 2019

New York City commuters this week will have their first exposure to European banking brand N26 through ads posted on subway cars. customers this summer, and it’s using a traditional ad campaign — on subways, taxis and buses — to build brand recognition among U.S. […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

CBD products may be “everywhere,” Green Growth Brands CEO Peter Horvath told PYMNTS, but knowing what one is getting, how it was made and whether or not one is even allowed to have it pose more complex questions in a market like the U.S. Because the market is indeed growing in the U.S. – Will it be enough to save the mall ?

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

BANK MARKETING Since you probably spent time today discussing the Super Bowl ads (Smaht Pahk, Google, and Snickers were our favorites), we wanted to highlight an all-too-common mistake that many banks make. Unfortunately, some brands waste it.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

There are many, many retailers and brands trying to outfit the world, and standing out in the crowd is difficult. The brand became the first to launch a website for U.S. The funds from sales generally do not flow back to Cuba, instead paying for marketing, taxes and payment for future printings. With its U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The company will partner with top fashion and beauty brands and retailers for the event, which offers its two million U.S. market just over a year ago and is now signed with over 6,500 U.S. Customers can shop a record amount of amazing deals from the most loved fashion and beauty brands. customers access to special promotions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

But you might be forgiven for a big longing for the industry’s prodigal son: Toys R Us. Because Toys R Us is back. That unburdens Toys R Us from shipping, marketing and fulfillment costs. No one expects Toys R Us to steal its market share back from Walmart, Target and Amazon.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Alibaba Group Holding have announced the launch of a Boots flagship store on Tmall Global , Alibaba’s B2C platform for international brands and retailers. The partnership will offer Boots beauty brands to more than half a billion consumers in China, including No7, Soap & Glory and Boots Cucumber.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal . Williform said he conceived BlackCool as a brand inspired by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that brings about a positive change for Black culture. This is a win-win.” .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The second flavor were the brands that had seen traction before the pandemic and flourished during it with innovative marketing, fresh business models and cool packaging. When those markets sparked a fan base and reorders, the company was born.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Integrated marketing campaigns can be challenging to execute, however, when they are done well, these synergies can lead to marketing success. Here’s Why digital marketing video series,?Brian Brian Weiss explains why and how integrated marketing campaigns can be superior to single-channel efforts. ? ? ?. Eric: Sure.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Today (June 17) Visa is announcing that their sensory branding suite is in over two dozen countries care of a dozen new partnerships. Visa’s sensory branding suite of products includes a sound, animation and haptic cues for consumers and merchants when a Visa transaction is completed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

In multiple large metropolitan areas of the United States, market share data indicates that Kroger is gaining traction. The grocer operates Kroger stores along with regional brands such as Fry’s, King Soopers and Harris Teeter, Cincinnati.com reported. Kelly added that “Kroger is used to this type of warfare.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

As Gen Z is projected to soon become the largest consumer segment, Target is rolling out three new house brands geared toward the retailer’s teen and young adult customers. Two brands will focus on clothing, while another will focus on electronics, retail news source Chain Store Age reported.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Today, she noted, things are quite good, as she is the rare internet celebrity who has turned a social brand into a bankable retail venture. Today, throwing digital marketing dollars at influencers seems like such a common and obvious move for a brand trying to tap into millennial consumers that it’s barely a news event at this point.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Amazon is now promoting its own products inside the listings of competitive brands. According to CNBC , some users searching for various products in beauty, health and household and baby items have reported seeing the link “Similar item from Our Brands” show up at the bottom of the listing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2020

Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Also last year, Walmart shuttered its Jet.com eCommerce website and phased out the brand.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Amazon holds the dominant edge in the market for smart speakers, as about 70 percent of people in the U.S. who use the devices are using an Amazon Echo, according to a report Monday (Feb. Some will be going with other speaker brands — there was 31.7 percent of users who said they’ll be using a Google device.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer mattress brands as mattress sales move from brick-and-mortar retail to eCommerce. One brand, though, saw a market opportunity as brands like Casper and Leesa took off. But the brands currently on the market were a useful learning experience for Nectar.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Our Paid Search team earned some well-deserved recognition last week when their paid search campaigns for long-time client Lake Champlain Chocolates won Best Use of Search – Retail/Ecommerce (PPC) at the US Search Awards. It was a well-executed campaign with a great outcome for the brand. It was amazing work.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The automotive market continues to fire on all cylinders despite the pandemic as online and offline sales have either remained flat or trending up for Q3. It also announced that it will increase its ad spend during the fourth quarter with its branding campaign that will be driven by heavier broadcasting.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

The software-driven platform Life House said the investment will support its growth into new markets and its drive for profitability by 2021. Among the fastest-growing hotel brands, Life House has over 800 beds and 25 hotels that are expected to be operational by early next year. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

On Monday (April 9), American Express unveiled a new global brand platform and marketing campaign dubbed “Powerful Backing: Don’t Do Business / Don’t Live Life Without It.”. While we have always been known as a relationship company, many people have considered us as only a consumer brand.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

QuadPay’s market leading virtual card offering was one of the first to launch in its category, and the company has an unrivalled track record on customer innovation and delivering an exceptional experience for merchants.”. competitors in the booming consumer finance market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When the brand is a well-known luxury provider like Dolce Gabbana, it can charge whatever it wants for a T-shirt, since the customer is arguably not purchasing the shirt so much as the cache of the logo on it. And Raf noted, for the founders, it was important that their brand felt good to wear in ways that went beyond the physical.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. The locations will also include interactive components with new activities and events with brand stations. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

“We started by aggregating suppliers — this was relatively easy because there was an intrinsic value for suppliers to display their brands online, specially, for those that didn’t have an online presence before joining us,” Pham told PYMNTS. Subsequent markets will include Poland and Slovakia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Never underestimate the value of the “Contact Us” form that every merchant and service provider places somewhere on its website — because no one knows who is going to end up on the other side of it. An endorsement from the Kardashian media empire is a big deal for any up-and-coming brand. There is an assumption that the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

In the case of the massive Toys R Us bankruptcy, children’s apparel retailer The Children’s Place could end up unexpectedly on the winner’s list. In particular, the hole in the market coincides with the brand’s launch of a new line of infant products, Bundles Baby Place.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Matt Taylor, co-founder and CEO of running apparel brand Tracksmith has found himself and his company a little slice of Boston’s running history. Taylor said marketing activities reflect his current scale as a small D2C brand. So Tracksmith was born and now thrives as a D2C brand. Yes, we will draw a crowd at the store.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Even with the liquidation of Toys R Us operations in the U.S., Now, the company is looking to restart the brand in places such as the U.S. consumers can engage with Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us again this holiday season.” consumers can engage with Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us again this holiday season.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

More than a store or a brand, The Sharper Image was the traditional mecca of the husbands, fathers and boyfriends along for mall trips they didn’t really want to be on, offering consolation in the form of a session in the vibro-massaging leather recliner and the opportunity to touch a plasma globe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Not the humanoids that are the stuff of science fiction that ostensibly, one day, will do our bidding (and, depending on who you read, perhaps conspire against us). told Karen Webster that retailers and other firms are going to need to consider “cleanliness as a brand value.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

The Irish firm also named a new chief marketing officer, Nils Andén. The Irish firm is looking to make inroads into other avenues of growth, including the United States market, and that would follow plans made at the end of last year to beef up its roster by 50 employees. The funding was led by Octopus Ventures.

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