PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

We launched with a dozen luxury brands, and now feature 225 of the world’s best brands,” Boyd said in an interview. Our partnership with the brands is what makes all of this possible.”. The brand also provides links to all of the charity websites, so you can donate directly to any organization.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Beyond 7-Eleven, Retail Business Services (RBS), the services company of Ahold Delhaize , announced in November that it was experimenting with a new frictionless store technology at its Massachusetts office. The company works with around 100 brands in total.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Build-A-Bear Workshop Chief Operations Officer Chris Hurt said in the announcement, “Build-A-Bear is working with some of the best family-focused venues in the country this holiday season and beyond to bring our unforgettable Make-Your-Own experience to even more places people go for fun and entertainment.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

Frank Krasovec, chairman of Domino’s master China franchisee Dash Brands Ltd., said in an announcement , “Not only are we excited to open the 200th Domino’s location in mainland China, but we are thrilled that it marks the brand’s 10,000th store outside of the U.S.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

From QSRs to casual dining operations, restaurants are tapping into mobile ordering to capture busy customers with no time to dine in. The pilot service is currently offered at 19 Massachusetts store locations and two other locations in Rhode Island.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Maile’s appointment recognizes that digital is central to driving revenue growth and to successfully competing in a changing and disrupted environment, where technology and brand are key sources of differentiation,” ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott said in a press release. Data from KPMG estimates that nearly A$27 billion ($19.21

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

With so much potential revenue at stake, there’s little wonder why merchants around the globe want to take their operations to the international stage. The X-Border Receivables Report explores how cross-border trade is impacting a wide array of industries and markets, as well as the customers and workers that operate within them.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dunkin’ Donuts has always been a brand about, well, donuts (or doughnuts, if one is a stickler about proper spelling). Time to make the donuts,” was the brand’s well-known tagline for almost two decades — uttered often and forlornly by long-time company mascot Fred the Baker.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. It will also offer a larger jewelry selection and exclusive brands like Sidney Garber, who has bracelets that sell for $8,600 and up. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

The industry is booming, and consumers who shop for beauty products have no shortage of brand options in stores and online. There are traditional players, and now there are digital native brands and startups, so the cosmetics industry has become a very crowded industry,” he said. “So, Beauty Buyers Go Digital.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We found it fitting to recognize just a few of the many examples of community involvement financial brands dare partaking in to spread cheer this holiday season. Giving can be done a number of ways, here are some examples your brand can emulate next year. . Give Financially. Send us a note now! Email Social Assurance.

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Perficient

JANUARY 7, 2021

I recently interviewed Gary Johnson, a delivery director at Perficient who has worked with various automotive brands. They had to change the way they operate with new social distancing guidelines. For example, some states, such as California and Massachusetts, plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by the year 2035.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Take the Uber -branded delivery service, Uber Eats , which recently expanded its services in Canada. still debating exactly where and how cannabis dispensaries can operate. The nascent cannabis industry, for instance, is still in its infant phase, with states across the U.S.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

College-bound high school students in Massachusetts were asked to complete essays about the intrinsic value of community banks for a chance to win a scholarship from North Easton Savings Bank. North Easton Savings Bank president and CEO Rich Spencer (left) with recipients of the bank’s annual college scholarships. By Paul Sisolak.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

bankruptcy court, Massachusetts’ New England Confectionery Co. We started as a family-owned candy company back in 1847, [and] we’re thrilled to work with a fourth-generation candy company that brings new stewardship to our brands,” Necco Chief Executive Michael McGee told the Globe. “We Following an auction in a U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

According to a consultant hired by Total Hockey to help it right the ship, comparable same-store sales for the brand, which runs about 27 locations spread across the Midwest, were positive for every quarter up until Q4 2015, when they took an 8 percent dive. Not every brand that closes its doors did so last week in infamy, though.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In 2016, Welles launched American Rhino , a fair-trade apparel brand supporting conservation efforts to protect the critically endangered rhinos and other threatened African wildlife. For American Rhino, what started as a made-in-America operation quickly evolved into a cross-border affair. Tackling cross-border sourcing. Welles said.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? They can be a strategic shift of your franchise, a new product line, or a new operating environment. or Idea Killers? More talk about fintech, dinosaur bankers, and flavors of the month. Today there are less than 5,700.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Across the US, well-funded companies are rethinking how the financial system operates. Inked Brands. $ Massachusetts. We excluded companies that have not raised equity funding since 2015 and excluded funding from debt as well as lines of credit. . Allied Payment Network. $ Regent Education. Bright Health. D3 Technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

True Food Innovations, which already was competing in the meal kit space with a long shelf life retail brand called True Chef, quickly scooped up the assets and announced that it would focus on selling through retail channels. “We The firm, which has mainly operated in the Western U.S., Holding Out.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

When people want coffee or tea, they want it now, and we want their orders to be ready when they are,” Aidan Hay, SVP of Operations at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, said in a press release announcing a mobile order-ahead feature for their app. The Coffee Bean & Tea Life is hardly alone.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Massachusetts securities regulators recently sued the company , alleging that it exposes investors to “unnecessary trading risks” and prompts inexperienced investors to trade frequently through the “gamification” of stock-market investing. In addition to operating some 1,500 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

When its first Massachusetts store opened last year, 2,000 people lined up to get inside. Consumers have been known to write open love letters to Wegmans imploring them to open up operations in their state or town. Wegmans — a 92-store chain based out of Rochester, N.Y., however — is a very different sort of grocery animal.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

9) Brand Matters: SVB had one of the best brands in banking. Unfortunately, in this case, the brand couldn’t overcome the sizable liquidity risk on the balance sheet. However, we note that had the banking crisis been less severe, this bank’s brand would have helped extend the duration of its liabilities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over 100 restaurant and retail brands attended the meeting to offer feedback and make suggestions about future platform developments. . Our clients are doing remarkable things with the platform — the high-impact results, growth, and brand enhancements are amazing.”. President Andrew Robbins.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

To reach more consumers, Massachusetts-based restaurant chain Wahlburgers is taking its hamburgers to the grocery aisle. But, in the future, the company is considering rolling out other branded products. It also listed Wahlburgers-branded items on Hy-Vee’s in-store restaurant menu.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Massachusetts-based eTailer 1620 Workwear sells heavy-duty clothing for construction workers, carpenters, plumbers, EMTs and others who work outdoors or in demanding environments, and recently began deploying installment payment options from BNPL provider Afterpay. Customers are going to] have to finance everything they need,” he explained.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

About a week after that conversation, the state of Massachusetts closed up tight and the Legendary Restaurant Group had a lot of quick pivots to make and some tough triaging to do. And what I heard was ‘Oh, you’re crazy. You’re crazy,’ this is going to be nothing.’”. Unfortunately, Damian was right. Rewriting The Business Plan In Real Time .

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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. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts).

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Take, for instance, that nearly 100 years post-Prohibition, there are still eight towns in Massachusetts where the sale of alcohol is still illegal. . And that’s before you throw in the esoteric requirements of state and local jurisdiction.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Bain, which has helped hundreds of similar businesses undergo their “digital transformation,” has that deep operator expertise.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

By leveraging the mobile phone and existing platforms, such as the Apple and Android mobile operating systems and the payments rails, the cloud, a variety of technologies like GPS and apps like Maps in 2009, Uber’s platform is totally transforming the transportation sector. The story of Uber is, by now, well-trodden turf.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Bitcoin itself, Evans said, the currency built on blockchain, has had problems operating via the high-maintenance blockchain network. In April , PYMNTS caught up with Ayr Muir, founder of Massachusetts-based QSR and food truck Clover Food Lab. UNATTENDED RETAIL TRACKER. Vending machines got a serious facelift in 2016.

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CB Insights

JULY 30, 2017

Audi VP of brand strategy and digital business Sven Schuwirth has predicted that 20 years from now , many of these motel customers will instead choose to sleep in their driverless cars. Airlines. As a result of decreased collisions, the healthcare industry could lose approximately $500B annually. Driving schools. Traffic Enforcement.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Cool name and branding. I checked out their web site and they are promoting their IOS/Google Play mobile apps (no surprise) and I found this: This website is operated and maintained by Collective Returns, Inc. I like their branding. They are based in Massachusetts so I bet they came out of MIT. They have raised.83

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