The numbers are astronomical and the process is highly secretive. A new missile defense system? The private financing of national elections? No, my topic today is something of much greater concern to everyone in the Gator Nation: the hiring of a new football coach. In announcing his plan for replacing Jim McElwain, Scott Stricklin, the…
One in three Aussies are using rewards credit cards to help pay for Christmas gifts: Citi
Aussies are giving their plastic a workout this Christmas, with 38% of people looking to their credit card reward schemes to help with gift shopping, according to research from Citi. Citi’s finding show that credit card rewards are still a major consideration for Aussies, despite a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the value on offer…
Best Western’s Plans for Loyalty, Tech & Expansion: Business Travel News
Best Western Hotels & Resorts intends to grow its existing presence in the industry and embrace updated and new technologies, both consumer facing and on the back end. Executives outlined plans at the company’s recent annual North American convention. BWR Loyalty Experiences Best Western Rewards, which underwent a revamp in 2016 to make it easier…
Samsung Loyalty Rewards Program Sees Growth
Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email In a company news release published Tuesday (Nov. 14), Samsung, Inc. revealed its loyalty rewards program, Samsung Rewards, has achieved above-projected growth. It also previewed several of its plans for the year ahead. “We created Samsung Rewards to give back to consumers who use Samsung services, such as…
sbe Appoints Martin Heierling as Chief Culinary Officer
NEW YORK, Nov. 14,2017 /PRNewswire/ sbe, the leading lifestyle hospitality company, today announces that it has appointed Martin Heierling as its first ever Chief Culinary Officer. Martin will lead sbe and subsidiary company Disruptive Restaurant Group’s culinary strategy across its current brand portfolio, overseeing collaboration with sbe’s concept chefs and more than 112 venues globally,…
Phone payments to overtake cash and kill off cards, say young people
As the recently launched iPhone X makes mobile payments even easier with Face ID, MoneySuperMarket reveals that a quarter (23%) of Generation Z predicts physical cards will soon be obsolete as mobile payments reign supreme. The new report by the price comparison website shows that contactless payments have doubled since last year, as we increasingly lose contact…
Marriott International rolls out Club Marriott in India
Marriott International has launched the new Club Marriott in India, a leading dining loyalty program that integrates three powerful dining loyalty programs – Club Marriott, Eat Drink & More, and Star Privilege into a single paid membership program. The newly combined Club Marriott provides members with more choices and benefits whenever they dine out in…
Earn Qantas Points for recycling coffee cups
The airline has partnered with Simply Cups to reward small businesses when they recycle. To celebrate and raise awareness for National Recycling Week, Qantas is rewarding its business frequent flyers with points every time they recycle their coffee cups. Qantas Business Rewards has partnered with Simply Cups to drive the initiative. There aren’t any recycling…
Sprint to expand its credit card offering nationwide this week: Wave7
Sprint will take its branded credit card offering nationwide later this week, according to Wave7 Research. Sprint Credit Card launched two years ago after the carrier announced a joint venture with Home Credit, a financial institution based in Amsterdam. It is currently offered in more than 500 Sprint retail locations, Wave7 said. Sprint plans to…
Points Intl Ltd (NASDAQ:PCOM) Moving Aggressively – Down $0.03
Advertisement Points Intl Ltd (NASDAQ:PCOM) last traded at $11.55 with shares with a low of $11.50 and a high of $11.71. The swing makes the stock one of the most volatile of the day. It is one of the market’s biggest gainers. Short Interest Investors are a little more bullish of late if you look…