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OCTOBER 30, 2020

We believe that the critical mass of our transformational challenges is behind us, and we remain sharply focused on operational improvements and financial discipline to accelerate strategies to create sustainable, long-term growth for the Under Armour brand and our shareholders,” Frisk said in the statement.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reports that the “four-letter” word has been getting the boot from … mall operators. There are 90 regional malls that have renovated in just the past four years and, as calculated by property consultancy JLL, 17 have stripped away the “mall” designation. Call them something else, then, it seems.

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MARCH 10, 2022

The Acquia Partner Awards recognize 17 outstanding partners across four global regions. Since last year’s Partner Awards, we’ve seen how partners, brands, and businesses across the globe have adapted to new ways of operating.

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MAY 4, 2022

In this piece, we highlight Copley Hospital and Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital. In January Copley completed the commissioning of a brand new, state-of-the-art Siemen’s MRI. Patients can watch movies, or listen to music while the machine is operating. It has truly been a game changer for the hospital.

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JULY 1, 2020

That estimate comes from market intelligence company GlobalData, which predicts that total spending in the region will dip to $60.3 GlobalData analysts say the closure of a number of luxury-branded stores across Asia Pacific makes a short-term recovery unlikely. billion in 2020, compared to $62.4 billion in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

"It's gratifying that KKR sees such incredible value in our brand and that they will continue to support us in doing what we do best — delivering the best vision care to consumers with the highest quality customer service,” 1-800 Contacts CEO John Graham said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ridesharing company Gett, which operates under the name Juno in New York City, is shuttering its operations there and entering into a partnership with Lyft to take on its accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch. We are focusing on reaching operational profitability globally already next month in December,” he said.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

regional banks. . The newly-combined company will operate under the Huntington name and brand. We will be a top regional bank, with the scale to compete and the passion to serve. Huntington Bancshares is merging with TCF Financial in a $22 billion deal that will result in the development of one of the top 10 U.S.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Answear.com sells brands including Levi's, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Jeans, according to its website. Transactions like Allegro or ATM show that our fears about the pace of growth in the region had been unfounded,” MCI Founder Tomasz Czechowicz told Bloomberg in an interview, according to the news service.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

Although the startup will be a wholly-owned Uber subsidiary, Careem will continue to operate under its own brand, the news outlet reported. million drivers, and operates in more than 100 cities across 14 countries from Morocco to Pakistan. Careem has 33 million customers and 1.2

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Our execution was strong, we continued to accelerate our strategic initiatives, and all of our regions were in growth.”. Organic net revenue expanded in all four of the global company’s regions, according to management. billion in year-to-date cash provided by operating activities, up $400 million from the past year, and $1.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Even with the liquidation of Toys R Us operations in the U.S., parts of the business in other regions are still active and purchase goods as well as pay royalties to Tru Kids. Now, the company is looking to restart the brand in places such as the U.S. Currently, the company operates more than 550 stores in the region.

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JULY 30, 2020

Zycus Vice President of Corporate Development Richard Waugh said in the announcement, “We saw a perfect fit for our AI expertise in the technologically challenged accounts payable operations and created independent AP bots for multiple use cases in the invoice-to-pay cycle.”

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The company, which operates its own eCommerce marketplace, has built its own supply chain, according to reports, and has recently expanded into the Mumbai and Pune regions, with perishables delivered the same day. The startup also began operations in UAE recently. The total raised to date comes in at $33 million.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

By the numbers, America’s largest mall operator reported net income for the second quarter at $254.2 Funds from operations (FFO) was $746.5 As expected, both domestic and international operations were hit hard by reduced lease income and ancillary property revenues as a result of the pandemic. million compared to $495.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Earlier this week, Hong Kong-listed luxury cosmetics firm L’Occitane International SA announced its intended $900 million acquisition of British beauty and skincare brand Elemis. The deal is the latest in a spate of acquisitions of high-end skincare brands. billion), while Unilever snapped up Carver Korea Co. billion euros ($2.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Popular for its branded green vehicles, in 2019, FlixMobility expanded into Ukraine. FlixMobility is operating in 30 countries. FlixMobility launched in the United States in 2018, challenging popular companies like Greyhound, and now operates with 100 destinations from coast to coast. billion people.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The website is a re-branding of Middle Eastern eCommerce site Souq.com , which was acquired by Amazon in 2017, PYMNTS reported. Last year, the company converted Souq’s website in the United Arab Emirates to an Amazon-branded one, amazon.ae. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime.

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

billion deal after Uber guaranteed it would abide by a series of commitments designed to sustain competition in the regional market, Reuters reported Sunday (Dec. Careem will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber yet operate independently with regards to branding and management. “We Regulators approved the $3.1

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

US mall vacancies are at 7-year highs, regional grocery chains have faltered, and e-commerce makes people less likely to go out of their way to visit centralized shopping locations. CPG brands need to go to shoppers, rather than waiting around for shoppers to come to them. get the 69-page disrupting cpg report.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, while banks in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. As you set marketing plans and budgets, consider that just this simple act of outreach and branding increases the average life by about 2-4 months. This alone can have a material impact on retention and is inexpensive.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Wholesale clubs and Trader Joe’s themselves have proven there is a huge market for brands that don’t check all of the boxes for a standard supermarket trip. The delivery outsourcing effort by Albertsons, which operates Vons, Pavilions and Safeway stores, will be in full effect by the end of February.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

Late last month the company announced it was expanding its partnership with Visa to include five new regions in 24 markets including Canada, Japan, Singapore and the U.S. As part of the newly expanded partnership, Revolut will primarily issue Visa-branded cards in the global expansion. Revolut’s move for new funding isn’t a surprise.

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MAY 11, 2020

billion in April and brought in $920 million in additional liquidity via amendments to its co-brand credit card agreements in May. Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Southeast Asia’s GrabFood is the latest food delivery service to launch a ghost kitchen accommodating several restaurant brands, turning up the heat on competition, DealStreetAsia reported Tuesday (Jan. The GrabKitchen platform gives restaurant partners an opportunity to introduce different food concepts and new brands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

India-based eCommerce marketplace Paytm Mall wants to work more closely with regional retailers and team up with eCommerce grocery service BigBasket to compete with Flipkart and Amazon, according to recent Reuters reports. We are in the process of integrating BigBasket on our app,” said Amit Sinha, Paytm Mall’s chief operating officer.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The internet platform is also coming to regions of Asia and the Caribbean. The news comes as Zara’s owner, and the world’s largest clothing retailer, Inditex , has announced that it will sell products from all of its brands online, it was reported in September. “We The full online catalog will be operational by 2020.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Latin America showed the strongest growth and offset declines in the Asia Pacific region and in the U.S. We also saw more leading global brands turn to Western Union for our unique cross-border capabilities. domestic market. But, given the restructure, WU did lower its earnings guidance for the year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

By region, Diageo’s Asia sales saw the biggest drop at 16 percent. The company attributed that to the fact that many countries in that region not only shuttered bars and restaurants, but also liquor stores. However, not all regions showed declines: North America bucked the trend and saw its sales rise 2 percent.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

To let financial institutions (FIs) and issuers provide an automated accounts payable (AP) solution with their own branding to their corporate customers, Regal Software has rolled out its RegalPay B2B payments software, according to an announcement. Remaking and restarting the American economy will involve automation for AP.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Other such delivery-related innovations from the eCommerce giant include Amazon-branded vans, a network of contracted Flex drivers and self-driving delivery robots and drones still in the testing phases. The company has opened over 75 new facilities in the U.S. The company has opened over 75 new facilities in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Whether you are B2B, B2C, or a strategic blend of the two operating models, your consumers expect seamless user experiences powered by custom technology solutions. Nearshore software delivery regions boast convenient geographic proximity and time zone alignment to the U.S. The digital world is global, now, more than ever.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

But Wooi Siang Lee, president and COO at Jewel Paymentech , said with growth comes new challenges for the operators of these sites. If a seller spends the night uploading a thousand new products, any operator would be hard-pressed to review them all in the morning, and the problem only gets bigger as the operation scales.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

According to a report in TechCrunch profiling the startup, Flow created a platform that helps brands and retailers sell their products in multiple regions and geographies. Flow takes care of currency, local pricing, payments and shipping to provide the cheapest way for brands to get their products to merchant’s international customers.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

“The inclusion of products from various mall tenants in the program will create a new stream of sales and customers for stores, as well as drive awareness and brand recognition,” said PREIT in a statement. Twenty-eight percent of PREIT’s portfolio consists of local and regional tenants.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The Nigeria-headquartered holding company operates across the West Africa region through multiple luxury retail outlets. Polo is the only authorized retailer in the region for brands including Rolex, Hublot, Cartier, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

We both want to make everyday life more convenient, whether it’s how people move around town in Southeast Asia’s fast-growing urban areas, or making it easier for people to pay and be paid all over the world,” said Visa Regional President Asia Pacific Chris Clark. The company first expanded into Vietnam, then Thailand.

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