PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Patrik Frisk, president and CEO of Under Armour, told The Baltimore Sun that the company is focused on returning to profitability and is planning to invest in eCommerce and company-owned retail outlets. . The brand is also making moves to reel-in the number of brick-and-mortar locations that carry the Under Armour line. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

It’s been a week of experimentation in retail, with many big names opening new types of stores to — as the saying goes — see what sticks. It seems more likely that these brands will uncover their key rather than some universal master retail key that can solve the brick-and-mortar challenge across the board.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

Retailers are entering that time of the year where high temperatures settle over just about every part of the continental U.S., brands like apparel retailer Austin Reed, though, the weight of all that financial baggage is too much to crawl out from under. For some U.K. Store Closures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Factual looked a bit more deeply into what the second favorite fast food chain in each state was and discovered that Chick-Fil-A deserved some applause for its regional dominance, garnering the title of No. 2 QSR in every state in the Southeast between Maryland and Alabama.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Bankruptcy claims a marquee name in tyke-focused retailing, as the Amazon effect continues. The slowdown in new businesses being founded in the 1980s and 90s was largely quarantined to certain segments – especially retail, where corner stores and regional brands were falling to larger national chains.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a result, a number of mobility startups have emerged, deploying new transportation models that stand to disrupt personal car ownership in dense urban regions, and potentially in more suburban regions moving forward. The dominant ride-share providers in the US – Uber and Lyft – have already seen rapid adoption.

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