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The Last Word: Brooke Hart Jones on Getting Her HBCyoU Dolls Into Top Retailer Brands

by | Nov 30, 2023
After Brooke Hart Jones graduated from Dallas' Kimball High School, she became the third generation in her family to attend an historically black college or university (HBCU), getting a finance degree from Hampton University in Virginia. Now she's putting that degree to use—and inspiring a new generation of future HBCU hopefuls—with her line of HBCyoU Dolls.
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On a Mission to ‘Revolutionize and Disrupt the Candy Industry,’ Sow Good Taps Private Capital for Expansion
With Target and Cracker Barrel joining current retailers Hy-Vee, FYE, Big Lots, and Five Below, Irving-based Sow Good's freeze-dried candy sales continue to find sweet success. Next up: A new freeze-dried ice cream line is slated to launch in Q4 2023.
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The Last Word: Retail Expert Steve Dennis On the AI-Led Demise of ‘Mediocre Middle’
“The potential shifts made possible by generative AI (and related technologies) do seem fundamentally more game-changing, while illustrating that disruption continues to happen more exponentially than linearly," Steve Dennis said in an email promoting his "Retail Apocalypse" podcast.
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The Last Word: Hillwood’s Reid Goetz on 1.7M SF of New Industrial in AllianceTexas

Dallas-based Hillwood has broken ground on two spec industrial buildings in its AllianceTexas development in Fort Worth. The two buildings will total around 1.7 million square feet with cross-dock configurations and 40-foot clear heights. In total, industrial development at AllianceTexas will add nearly 4 million square feet this year, Hillwood says.
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Clockwork Nails It at Target: Now You Can Get a Robot ‘Minicure’ in DFW
by | Jun 7, 2022
The startup's nail painting robot provides a "fast-casual" version of a manicure.
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He Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft to the Moon—Now His Flytrex Drones Will Deliver Burgers to DFW Back Yards
by | Feb 1, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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Dallas-Fort Worth Companies Share Their Advice on Reopening with Public School Districts

by | Jul 21, 2020
As Texas schools get ready to start the school year, companies such as DART, NEC Corporation of America, Target, and the YMCA share the lessons they've learned from reopening during a pandemic.
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Discovery: Neuro Rehab VR Teams Up With Schools for Robotic Glove; UTD Explores Roots of Chronic Pain
by | Mar 29, 2019
You'll also find out about Caris Life Sciences' data that shows a novel pathway to treating Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Dallas Entrepreneurs Launch Cooking App, Enter Techstars Retail Program With Target
by | Jul 18, 2018
Cooklist, a new app launched this week allowing users to see recipes they can cook with the food in their home, has already caught the attention of the global seed accelerator Techstars, which is aligned with Target.
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JPMorgan Chase Aims to Use 100 Percent Renewable Energy
by | Aug 1, 2017
In Texas, JPMorgan Chase has 584 branches covering 8 million square feet of space that includes its new 1.2 million-square-foot campus in Plano.
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Target, KaBOOM! Challenge Offers $720K for City Redevelopment Designs

by | Jul 20, 2017
The grants are to transform unconventional city spaces such as sidewalks, bus stops, and even laundromats into kid-friendly, playable "PLAces."
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