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Retail 2020: Looking Back On D2C Brands

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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. The seven-year-old D2C hybrid brand has received $4.7

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Philly Mall Owner Sets The Tone For Digital 3.0

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A Philadelphia-based mall owner is taking a proactive approach to the digital shift and back-to-school shopping. PREIT (Philadelphia Real Estate Investment Trust) is curating its first eCommerce offering in what it says is a unique avenue to engage consumers from a multi-retail perspective.

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Reinventing Retail’s ‘Anchor Store’ For The Omnicommerce Age

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Like the name implies, Anchor Shops try to preserve the bit of the department store experience that is still working — a physical place that consumers go to discover new brands and to examine products before they are purchased — while minimizing the parts of the old model that drag department store profits down such as the wholesale inventory model.

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New Carro Hire Shows How Vehicle Subscriptions Are Growing

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Ernest Chew, who heads the British lender’s capital goods and automotive investment banking team in the region, will join Carro as its chief financial officer in February,” the news service said, citing unnamed sources. The trend is not confined to famous automotive luxury brands, either. Toyota’s Move.

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Tastewise Brings Data To Dining

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Sometime brands hit it lucky, sometimes a very concerted marketing effort makes all the difference — but what flavors define a food trend have heretofore mostly been mysterious. But Tastewise, an Israeli startup, thinks it can fill in the holes here — and actually use data to figure out the consumer palate and possibly where it is going next.

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The Great Grocery Race Shifts Into High Gear

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And — according to Jet — the new app will also be better customized regionally for shoppers, making use of local imagery and messages on the homepage and throughout the site. Jet will also factor in locality when deciding which products are featured in its assortment for that region. Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

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Why would anyone want to listen to a podcast from an accounting firm?

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But “ unsuitable on Rea Radio ” isn’t your typical accounting podcast, which is why it has been so successful for our firm, Rea & Associates – a regional accounting and business consulting firm headquartered in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Finding our voice The first step in developing our podcast was to identify the show’s brand.

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