New Beginnings In Retail And Digital Payments

Charming Charlie

New eco-friendly shopping platform Hive Brands aims to be a Whole Foods of sustainable products. In brick-and-mortar retail, women’s clothing and accessories company Charming Charlie aims to have a big comeback this year, while JCPenney is beginning the new year with a post-Chapter 11 reboot, with new owners, new financing and soon a new chief executive. And in banking, more than a year has passed since the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) has rolled out the Cobro Digital (CoDi) digital payments platform. All this, Today in Data.

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    Data: 

    2014: The year that healthy pet food company Freshpet went public.

    390: Minimum number of stores Charming Charlie had at its height in North America, the Middle East and the Philippines.

    75%: Share of millennials who are actively changing their consumption habits to help the environment.

    5M: Approximate number of Cobro Digital users as of late 2020.

    $1.3B: Amount that JCPenney lost in 2020’s first 10 months.