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...Merchants are currently able to charge an extra fee for consumers who use American Express cards, but Visa and Mastercard have blocked sellers from doing so for their users....
...But he also wanted to express his gratitude for the Trump administration’s decision to approve an application allowing him to develop a North Carolina casino with a Native American tribe....
...Graham Day, chief investment officer of Innovator Capital Management — which launched the first buffered product in 2016 and is market leader with $11.7bn of the $23.1bn held in North American funds, according...
...Among the early adopters are IBM, Danone USA and Pirelli Tire North America....
...Citizens Financial, Synchrony Bank, American Express and Capital One are among those that are peddling accounts that pay out annual percentage yields of 3.5 per cent and above....
...Marcus embodies the version of American capitalism modelled by the likes of Andrew Carnegie....
...It argues the agreed sale to licensee American Quality Products violated the terms of its takeover by the UK consumer goods group....
...Halving that would just about cover Amazon’s losses in North American retail over the past year. Though the company’s top line is still growing, in a recession that is no sure thing....
...The sale to Avi Zinger’s American Quality Products brought to an end a year-long dispute over the Ben & Jerry’s policy, which had attracted a lawsuit and a ferocious reaction from the Israeli government...
...Forty per cent of Americans had already purchased holiday gifts in October, a recent survey from The NPD Group revealed....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...Still, Knighthead and Certares, the latter a travel specialist with stakes in TripAdvisor and the American Express travel agency, were leading a deal that would inject $5bn into Hertz....
...But they are now also investigating distributors and pharmacies....
...enough new floorspace each year to occupy the entire store estate of J Sainsbury or Tesco, and its presence threatened to shake up the UK market with the same cut-price efficiency long deployed in its American...
...But that put a floor on the price for HBO Max, due to the network’s valuable contracts with cable distributors....
...Green Common, which distributes North American plant-based products, including Beyond Meat in Asia, is set to enter the Chinese market later this month through Alibaba’s Tmall ecommerce website....
...The sportswear maker’s North American sales barely grew, but gross margins climbed thanks to Nike Direct, its direct-to-consumer business designed specifically to bypass distributors....
...He will be replaced by Michael Graham, head of the fund’s North American private equity programme....
...Dan Schulman recalls that Mr Donohoe flew cross-country to New York to recruit him from American Express to run PayPal, then part of eBay....
...We wind up teaming up with American Eagle, and I sell part of my business to American Eagle. And I got Urban Necessities inside American Eagle....
...Net sales surged 11 per cent in its global segment, which includes Lamb Weston’s top 100 North American restaurant chain customers and its international business....
...Rebates and incentives continued to grow, reflecting the ongoing “rewards war” that also affected American Express earnings earlier this month....
...Its North American business had been declining for some time. Some of its shoe releases have been flat footed and its retail distributors are fighting online disruption....
...As a result, the big companies that dominate it — distributors, pharmacy benefit managers, and retail pharmacies — face limited competition and have opportunities to extract economic rent....
...Costco, the big discount retailer, moved its branded cards from American Express to Citi last year, for example....
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