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APRIL 4, 2018

For thredUP’s brick-and-mortar stores, the inventory is designed to match regional tastes and, when shoppers visit fitting rooms, they can turn to an iPad for recommendations. In 2013, it opened the doors of its first retail store in New York to meet customer demand for a place to try on their glasses. Pop-Up Shops.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that. The office grew organically out of the startup’s decision to hire new employees based on talent, not location,” GeekWire wrote in a report.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

John Culver, Starbucks president of international channel development and global coffee & tea , noted on the call with investors that, with nearly two decades of successful and growing operations under its belt, Starbucks is confident it can “navigate any fluctuation that may take place” in the Chinese market. As of Tuesday (Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A highly regional grocery store chain, it’s only known in the six states where it actually operates. In 2015, Safeway took over three Albertsons stores and poured $30 million in bringing the West Coast brand to Publix country. Among those who do know Publix, the affinity is incredibly strong. The experiment crashed and burned.”.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

toy retailer Hamleys , for instance, is eyeing a potential New York City location for a flagship store. Ripco Real Estate Principal and Chief Operating Officer Mark Kaplan told CNBC that retailers can attract shoppers from online retailers “if the in-store experience offers something more.” In the U.K.,

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JULY 5, 2017

Think of it as an extension of brand and payment types and technology, and to some minds it is a natural fit. attention on Europe, with the desire to gain a post, or perhaps outpost, in payments processing in the region. Adyen operates in the Netherlands, which means that it has roots in the region.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. The operative word is control. “I [Few] would argue that these services make life easy for the consumer.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

According to The New York Times , Holt Renfrew has invested $300 million in redesigning its nine outlets, and La Maison Simons is opening new locations after 175 years of operating only in Quebec. Unfortunately, Nordstrom cannot simply supply its new stores from warehouses in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Amazon is hoping that the wider focus combined with its own in-house talent and content from brands developed in the Amazon Live Creator will find a wider and more engaged audience than its last attempt. The timing of this release highlights the new head-to-head nature of the face-0ff. Creating a live stream is easy.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Rue21’s new strategy includes opening 40 new stores, giving 100 current stores a facelift and focusing on branding. According to McDonough: “It is important to note that, as rue21 implements these new, customer-focused initiatives, the company has no term loan debt maturities until Oct. to a buyer through the auction.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Acronym of the Year. Has to be M-O-E.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Today Fairway operates 15 stores in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area, as well as four liquor stores. But it is also aiming to develop into newer and more frictionless version of that brand. According to Fairway Market, the move is a first of its kind for grocers in the region.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Lots of brands include exotic-sounding ingredients, the report notes, not in such small amounts that they likely have no nutritional impact. They are very careful about the brands they select to work with, and we felt like they would do a great job at helping protect our brand.”. within two days for ground shipping.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sweet Deal for the Acquiree) Award –Goes to Honey Science Corporation for its $4 billion acquisition by PayPal with Honey keeping its brand and HQ. Go-Where-the-People-Are Award – Goes to Webster Five AVP/Marketing Manager Holly Deslauriers at Financial Brand Forum with “Our demographic is age 40s and 50s and Facebook is WHERE THEY’RE AT.”.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. Table of contents. The disruption of the IPO.

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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. Next Level Burger.

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MARCH 27, 2019

And because it’s so valuable — and not well understood — the scope of exactly what the big tech brands have been collecting is only recently being recognized by the general public. Amazon hasn’t had nearly the problems with data breaches that have hit some of the other big tech brands. Source: The Smart Audio Report.

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MARCH 11, 2017

New York City Mayor Bill DiBlasio allowed himself to be seen in public eating a piece of pizza with a fork and knife — and caused an outrage among his constituents. Domino’s is already a recognized industry leader in digital innovation,” said Robert Schwarz, managing director for Nuance Enterprise in Australia and New Zealand.

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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 city also limited the number of scooters each company could operate, with a cap of 625 scooters per fleet.

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MAY 20, 2016

But Amazon is the A-Rod of retail baseball — usually does well, often accused of cheating and makes almost no one happy when it succeeds (other than New York Yankees fans, which for the purposes of this metaphor are Amazon Prime customers). ” Walmart says the good news is that development in the U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Yet, as 2018 was coming to a close, Facebook was hit with just a bit more bad news. According to a report in The New York Times , citing hundreds of pages of internal Facebook documents, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users. Sears Signs Off After 125 Years.

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MAY 23, 2019

The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Demonstrating sales is a necessity for retail startups, especially those operating in the intensely competitive food vertical. Hampton Creek busted buying its own merchandise. Total Funding: $240M.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Benson Porter, Boeing Employees CreditUnion – Porter led BECU through an amazing streak of growth in the Pacific Northwest, all while building an innovative, stakeholder-driven brand respected nationally. Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank. The Authors of the Year Award.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella referred to chat as the “third run-time” — an indispensable piece of operating a platform, second only to the operating system and the web browser. Chatbots could help mitigate some of these problems by streamlining patient engagement and increasing access to care in underserved regions.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Many millennial consumers are looking beyond older, legacy coffee brands to blends from boutique “third-wave” coffee roasters. Many Gen Y consumers are at least somewhat knowledgeable about their coffee, favoring brands committed to fair trade and environmentally sustainable growing practices. Source: Burst/Pexels.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Meanwhile, brands that were already virtual-first have seen dramatic increases in adoption during the crisis. Sales of the interactive at-home fitness brand Mirror doubled in the weeks following Covid-19’s arrival in the US. VR has also helped businesses across industries keep operations running.

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MAY 15, 2019

Key people: Chris Curtin, Chief Brand & Innovation Marketing Officer; Shiv Singh, Senior Vice President of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships. DBS leaders expect to see more than 5,000 people actively innovating DBS’ services and operations at DAX each year. Visa — One Market Center. Founded: 2013. Founded: 2016.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

In Southeast Asia in particular, an influx of smartphones has created a new set of consumers with the ability to stream content directly to their devices. Given the region’s combined population of 650 million and this largely untapped market, Southeast Asia is attracting plenty of attention — and not only from Netflix.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

But why then, you might ask, are so many pure-play eTailers, whose target audience is the millennial — like The RealReal and Rent The Runway , new marketplaces like OfferUp , deal aggregators like Groupon , alt lenders like SoFi and alt lending platforms like LendingTree — buying pricey blocks of airtime on CNN and CNBC to promote their brands?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While this deal was announced late last year, the heavy lifting was done in 2016 as BBCN Bancorp and Wilshire Bancorp came together under a new brand to create the largest Korean American bank. Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While this deal was announced late last year, the heavy lifting was done in 2016 as BBCN Bancorp and Wilshire Bancorp came together under a new brand to create the largest Korean American bank. Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The economics of the carts gracing shopping centers and busy hallways were simple: Merchants could set up a cart that they could operate for as short a time as a week or two and not have to deal with the long-term investment of opening up a brick-and-mortar store. “The industry has not kept pace with modern retail.

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