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  "company": "Ermenegildo Zegna Group",
  "headline": "Luxury group posts double-digit growth on accelerating direct-to-consumer sales.",
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  "source_name": "Rutland Herald",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · DTC channel acceleration · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nLuxury group posts double-digit growth on accelerating direct-to-consumer sales.\n\nEvery brand founder I talk to is still wholesale-first. Zegna made the bet that DTC was the margin play and the speed play, and it's working at scale. You don't need to be Zegna to steal this — you need one category, one channel, and permission to not discount.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · DTC channel acceleration · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nLuxury group posts double-digit growth on accelerating direct-to-consumer sales.\n\nEvery brand founder I talk to is still wholesale-first. Zegna made the bet that DTC was the margin play and the speed play, and it's working at scale. You don't need to be Zegna to steal this — you need one category, one channel, and permission to not discount.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · DTC channel acceleration · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nLuxury group posts double-digit growth on accelerating direct-to-consumer sales.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-08t00-2",
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      "title": "Luxury group posts double-digit growth on accelerating direct-to-consumer sales.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nErmenegildo Zegna Group recorded double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026, driven by accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum, per Rutland Herald.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): luxury wholesale is a margin anchor. DTC channels in luxury move faster and fatter. Zegna's double-digit growth came from owned retail, not licensing or wholesale. The play: if you sell a product with visible margin (apparel, hard goods, accessories), audit your DTC revenue as a percentage of total. If it's under 40%, you're leaving money and speed on the table. Test one owned channel — a pop-up, a branded marketplace shop, or direct email — with one category at full margin. Measure sell-through, not traffic. Repeat what moves.\nWhat that means for you: Every brand founder I talk to is still wholesale-first. Zegna made the bet that DTC was the margin play and the speed play, and it's working at scale. You don't need to be Zegna to steal this — you need one category, one channel, and permission to not discount.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Rutland Herald: https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/business/ermenegildo-zegna-group-records-double-digit-revenue-growth-in-q2-2026-with-accelerating-dtc-momentum1/article_e6af7e99-d419-55cc-8aee-635792844691.html.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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