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- Why You Should Use a Credit Card for Airplane Tickets
- If you routinely charge plane tickets to a debit card, stop. The New York Times explains why you should always use a credit card for your flight purchases: Under the federal Fair Credit Billing Act, a credit card company is required to return your money for a service not...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Airlines Expanding Payment Options
- Airlines are always looking for ways to cut costs. Distribution costs have been on the chopping block for years, but it's been only relatively recently that credit card fees have begun to move on to center stage. Credit cards are easily the most convenient way to pay...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Handling Online Payments
- If your business sells its products or services online, it goes without saying that your online payment system must work flawlessly. If not, your credibility will vanish in a heartbeat. Your system must be easy to use and unfailingly secure. Consumers won't tolerate a long, cumbersome purchasing process, and they...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Coke Machines Go Cashless with MasterCard
- Today MasterCard Worldwide and USA Technologies Inc. announced plans to install cashless payment terminals in 7,500 Coca-Cola vending machines within 8 markets (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and Seattle). Customers will be able to use traditional credit cards as well as MasterCard's PayPass. Thacher Worthen, Coca-Cola's...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Thomas Epstein, former First Data vice president of national sales, has formed Franchise Payments Network.(Mergers, Acquisitions, Transactions, New Formations)(Brief article)
- Thomas Epstein, former First Data vice president of national sales, has formed Franchise Payments Network, a credit card processing company dedicated to the franchise ... Thomas Epstein, former First Data vice president of national sales, has formed Franchise Payments Network, a credit card processing company ...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Cards get credit for Target profit in Q1. (Business Today).
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Lifted almost entirely by continued strength in its growing credit card business, first-quarter profits at Target Corp. inched up by 1.3 percent, to $349 million from $345 million last year. Sales at the company's diversified re MINNEAPOLIS...
- Research articles 2003-05-19
- Checking out credit cards: how to get the best deal from credit card companies.
- More and more customers have credit cards in their pockets, just itching to buy. When met with "Cash only, please" at your distributorship, the disappointed customers and their quivering cards often patronize your competitors instead. More and more customers have...
- Research articles 1998-03-01
- Late News; Visa goes beyond BBDO for undisclosed project.(Google Inc., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc. eyeing America Online Inc. acquisition)(General Electric posts increased sales)(Morgan Stanley signs contract with Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide)
- [San Francisco] Visa is again looking outside longtime agency of record BBDO for ideas for undisclosed project work, including talks with Omnicom Group sibling shop TBWA/Chiat/Day, Playa del Rey, Calif. Last month, the credit card marketer, which spe [San Francisco] Visa is again looking outside longtime...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- Target Corporation First Quarter Earnings Per Share $0.63
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) today reported net earnings for the first quarter ended April 29, 2006 of $554 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $494 million, or 55 cents per share in the first quarter ended April 30, 2005. All earnings per share figures refer to diluted...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- Target charges ahead of competition.
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Lifted by a rocket-hot holiday season in its core Target Stores, and continued earnings growth in its new credit card business, Target Corp. said profits in the Christmas quarter raced ahead by 21.1 percent--more than twice as fast a MINNEAPOLIS -- Lifted...
- Research articles 2004-02-23
- Bullseye (almost) for Target 3rd.(Target Corp. sales up)
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Fueled by continued growth at Target Stores and at its increasingly important credit card business, Target Corp. recorded a third-quarter profit of $302.0 million, up 8.7 percent from $277 million. But all of the company's earn ...
- Research articles 2003-11-17
- Chevron tops in credit card sales, Shell leads in card accounts-report. (gasoline marketing)
- Chevron Tops in Credit Card Sales, Shell Leads in Card Accounts--Report Chevron generated more credit card sales dollars in 1985 than any other oil company even though it ranked only second best in the total number of active accounts in operation and tChevron Tops in Credit Card...
- Research articles 1986-03-01
- Charge-a-movie being tested. (MasterCard, Visa and American Express advance ticket sales program) (Brief Article)
- One of America's last cash-only businesses, movie theaters, may soon convert to plastic. MasterCard, Visa and American Express are hoping to lure theater chains into advance ticket sales via credit cards. A test in select markets is being co ...
- Research articles 1991-10-11
- Brazil: Banco do Brasil leads Visa sales.
- Banco do Brasil acquired a 1.08% stake in Visanet from Bradesco for R$18mil last September, and plans to buy 3% more during 1999, which will demand an investment of R$30mil. Banco do Brasil was Visa's leading credit card seller in Brazil in 1998, ...
- Research articles 1999-01-11
- Charge causes big loss at Sears.
- HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. -- Hit by a one-time accounting charge of $839 million tied to pension benefits Sears, Roebuck and Co. recorded a first quarter loss of $859 million. Even without the special charge, the retailer would have posted a $20...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- Stronger credit sales: priceless.(Target Corp. sales data)
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Despite an across-the-board slide in same-store sales in all of its retailing units during the holiday season, Target Corp. managed a modest 4.4 percent increase in fourth-quarter profits, helped by a strong performance in its credit MINNEAPOLIS -- Despite an across-the-board slide...
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- Target soars past competition: credit card business contributes $142 million in profits.(Business)
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Widening the performance gap between itself and its rivals, Target Corp. pushed profits and same-store sales up at a sharply faster pace than its primary competitor, Wal-Mart Stores, during the opening quarter, with earnings climbing MINNEAPOLIS -- Widening the performance gap between...
- Research articles 2005-05-16
- Spiegel still seeks salvation; But long-shot Bauer fix is no cure-all for parent.(News)(Brief Article)
- Byline: SANDRA JONES With no buyer in sight for its troubled credit card business and a stalemate with its banks over restructuring broken credit agreements, catalog retailer Spiegel Inc. is pinning its hopes on Eddie Bauer to save the floundering Byline: SANDRA JONES...
- Research articles 2002-10-07
- Mortgage Approvals Hit 18-mth High
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Mortgage approvals for house purchase rose faster than expected in September to their highest level since March 2008, but borrowing on credit cards fell to its lowest since last December, official data showed on Thursday.The Bank of England said mortgage approvals numbered 56,215 in September, up...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Many Homeowners Upped Debt on Low Rates
- More than 75 per cent of homeowners took advantage of low interest rates to add to their mortgage loan or take on other forms of debt, a new survey has found.The poll by mortgage broker, Loan Market Group, found that 44 per cent of homeowners increased their home loan...
- News items 2009-11-04
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