PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

But as ideas about men’s wellness and grooming have risen in prominence and popularity, the markets are changing. Firms like Oars + Alps are gaining a name making the types of products normally marketed to women — facial moisturizers and cleansers — and repackaging and designing them into a more male-friendly palette.

Startups 43

Startups Advertising Marketing Retail 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their shoes are also a bit different, insofar as they are made from merino wool, which is both softer and more renewable than most sneaker materials out there on the market. They released their first product — the Wool Runner — in March 2016, and just about a year later their second shoe came to market: a slip-on called the Wool Lounger.

Retail 51

Retail Valuation Manufacturing eCommerce 51

PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

In a press release , PayU said the price tag was undisclosed, but that the deal supports PayU’s expansion into high growth markets. PayU , the online payment company owned by Naspers , announced Monday (July 23) the acquisition of payments technology platform ZOOZ.

Investments 40

Investments Leadership Technology Marketing 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 Fidzup’s Programmatic & Analytics Platform was developed to enable brick-and-mortar store managers to intelligently direct their marketing campaigns, while accurately measuring their return on investment in their physical stores.

Marketing 70

Marketing Advertising Retail Investments 70

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

Despite Fitbit sales growth stalling at the end of 2016, Fortune reported, the wearable maker has plans to move up the market this year with new product releases that are expected to include more smartwatch-like features. “As Fitbit did not disclose the price of the Vector purchase. Pebble’s hardware will cease to exist with the deal.

Leadership 40

Leadership Sales Technology Planning 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

“We have always been committed to delivering an exceptional customer experience no matter how consumers choose to shop,” noted Ed Macri, chief product and marketing officer at Wayfair. “We have seen Apple Pay for web tagged as “coming this fall.”

Marketing 40

Marketing 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Kroger also said the experiment “will guide expansion plans in 2019 and beyond.”.

Entertainment 54

Entertainment Advertising Retail Technology 54

PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Its bigger vision is to add its fresh food convenience stores to “several” Asian countries by the end of the year, although they offered no specifics on which countries those might be — or when that expansion will be underway. BingoBox has a somewhat lower-tech approach to the market than Amazon.

Retail 41

Retail Startups Planning Investments 41

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Alphabet’s current estimated market cap sat over $591.4 The funding round will be put toward Currencycloud’s continued global expansion. Currencycloud recently went stateside and has also seen interest coming from Asian markets, CEO Mike Laven told Reuters. At the time of writing, one GOOG share was worth $843.12, down 0.30

Startups 40

Startups Leadership Marketing Investments 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

Kroger is seeking to bring new customer experiences to market faster, drive personalization with insights and help store associates become more productive. At the same time, Kroger said the experiment “will guide expansion plans in 2019 and beyond.”. The Grocery Market. The experiment is also said to include other technologies.

Analyzing Data 43

Analyzing Data Technology Advertising Retail 43

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

There are also digital price tags for every item, and Prime members can pay the discounted online price for their selections at the store. High rents from an aggressive physical expansion also have posed a problem. The used-fashion market in the U.S. is expected to reach $64 billion by 2028, per GlobalData.

Retail 43

Retail eCommerce Investments Numbers 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. We inspect materials, workmanship, details, any tags, labels, logos, hologram stickers, date and/or serial codes, and identify the time period of each item. Items that don’t pass muster don’t make it onto the site. “We

Sales 40

Sales eCommerce Retail Technology 40

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

The company has some enviable market share in its home base of Britain, where it processes about 40 percent of all retail transactions, The New York Times reported Wednesday – and in total processes about 36 million transactions daily. Well, consider the fact that if nothing else, Brexit is refocusing U.S.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Currencies Valuation Forecasting 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

.” That tax, she noted, encompasses marketing, retailer margins and other expenses that can typically push up prices on brand-name products by as much as 30 percent. The price point is particularly impressive, observers have noted, because Brandless is not known to sell down market goods.

Construction 41

Construction eCommerce Retail Marketing 41

PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. Some think it’s the overly large physical footprint — particularly in malls — in an era where customers are shopping in-store less.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Securities Numbers 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

We examine the findings from several market reports on small business access to capital, lending, growth and employment. Researchers pointed to pressure on supermarkets to reduce prices amid a highly competitive market, which, in turn, has these sellers imposing extended payment terms on their food suppliers.

B2B 40

B2B Finance Corporate Finance Numbers 40

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

When The Information broke Alibaba’s news Thursday, June 29, insiders had reported that the smart speaker could hit the Chinese market as early as this week. The DingDong smart speaker by Alibaba’s eCommerce rival JD.com has been on the market for two years and understands both Mandarin and Cantonese – with, it reports, 95 percent accuracy.

eCommerce 43

eCommerce Entertainment Planning Technology 43

PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Even with these expansions, tickets sold out within three minutes, although it was possible to get them from resellers — if you were willing to shell out $1,500 per ticket. Here are just a few of the expenses that festivalgoers are tacking on to their weekend price tag (and who’s making money off it).

Numbers 40

Numbers Transportation Sales Planning 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

However, recent job listings suggest that more coverages may soon become available – and, at the very least, that rough sailing is ahead for traditional insurers in the market. That’s on top of the recent expansion that increased the number of used cars for sale on the marketplace.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Securities Sales Technology 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

The new capital will help fund global expansion, with focus, as the name implies, on eCommerce. Every time we run into a situation where the AI isn’t sufficiently confident, humans step in, and we tag that information in a way that allows us to make our system smarter.”. The implied valuation here is $700 million.

Sales 49

Sales Investments Numbers Valuation 49

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The big-box players like Walmart and Target have been eating up an increasing share of market for over decade, while wholesale clubs, predominantly Costco, have been eroding the grocery customer base for closer to two-and-a-half decades. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. Stores wear out and look old.

Concentration 40

Concentration Retail Sales Investments 40

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Initial indications are that the funding will go toward expansion beyond China and also for driverless technology. The same might be seen in the student loan market — where young people are struggling to pay them off. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher. That would outpace the 18 seen in all of 2016.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Startups Technology 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Which basically explains the existence of the vast majority of the other National “…” Days – they are an excellent source of free marketing, particularly in the era of social media. How to celebrate and splurge on man’s best friend when the market is already focused on celebrating and spending on them every day?

Numbers 43

Numbers Technology Sales Marketing 43

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

The expansion was a logical next step in furthering Fitbit’s core mission of enabling healthy lifestyles and broader strategic goals — including commerce, Lindsay Cook, Fitbit’s head of Devices told PYMNTS shortly before the launch of Fitbit Pay on the Ionic in October of last year. Are consumers ready for that enhancement?

Forecasting 49

Forecasting Sales Technology Securities 49

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Love truly has no price tag. But free returns, better fit surveys and shifting preferences toward more simply sized sports bras and bralettes has changed the market and made shoppers a bit more amenable to buying their bra online. Thank you,” on the other hand, does. The good news — or goodish news?

Retail 47

Retail Sales Manufacturing eCommerce 47

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Though not venture capital, the private equity raised for New Jersey-chartered community bank Cross River Bank is noteworthy not only for its impressive price tag of $100 million, but for its reflection of investors’ support for financial institutions that collaborate with the tech startup scene. Cross River Bank. Wise Systems.

B2B 70

B2B Startups Benchmarking Manufacturing 70

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

For it is expansion that is on Ant Financial’s corporate mind. The politics may be enough to make Ant think twice, while the price tag, thrice. It might not be too farfetched to think that scale and reach would be key considerations for a consolation prize on this latter scenario, with MoneyGram having been snapped up.

Treasury 40

Treasury Retail Investments Marketing 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The legislation would levy a moratorium on M&A that involves companies with more than $100 million in revenue or financial institutions (FIs) with more than $100 million in market capitalization. Limits on the lines put certain markets, perhaps, off-limits. The act is unlikely to go make much progress in a Republican-led Senate.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 115

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Startups Marketing 115

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

RITHOLTZ: What did grandma do that she had such market savvy back in the 90s? HAMBURGER: So, there’s no market downturn risk, or I should say very low market downturn risk. RITHOLTZ: Which raises the question, how big is that M&A market for RIAs? Is anyone ever going to have market share here?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 60

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? You go on the road, you see offices, they ask you questions about markets, stocks, things like that. That’s right.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And if this sounds like two old friends just yammering about all sorts of market esoterica, well, that’s because it is. And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. You had a radical expansion of passive. His name is Dave Nadig. NADIG: Yeah.

Finance 107

Finance Investments Math Marketing 107