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  "company": "Ermenegildo Zegna Group",
  "headline": "Double-digit Q2 2026 revenue growth with accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · DTC acceleration at scale · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nDouble-digit Q2 2026 revenue growth with accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum.\n\nZegna is not a startup; it's a 100-year-old house. The fact that a brand at that scale and price point is talking about DTC momentum as a growth driver tells you the playbook has fully migrated. It's not contrarian anymore. The game is how fast you can shift without breaking wholesale relationships—and Zegna's numbers say the answer is: fast.\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-2026-08-09t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-09t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-09t21-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · DTC acceleration at scale · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nDouble-digit Q2 2026 revenue growth with accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum.\n\nZegna is not a startup; it's a 100-year-old house. The fact that a brand at that scale and price point is talking about DTC momentum as a growth driver tells you the playbook has fully migrated. It's not contrarian anymore. The game is how fast you can shift without breaking wholesale relationships—and Zegna's numbers say the answer is: fast.\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-2026-08-09t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-09t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-09t21-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · DTC acceleration at scale · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nDouble-digit Q2 2026 revenue growth with accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-09t21-2",
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      "title": "Double-digit Q2 2026 revenue growth with accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum.",
      "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 👇\nPer reporting on Ermenegildo Zegna Group's Q2 2026 results, the luxury menswear house recorded double-digit revenue growth with DTC momentum outpacing wholesale.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): at scale, every percentage point of DTC mix is recaptured margin. A 10% shift from wholesale to DTC at a $500M revenue house is $50M in recaptured gross profit before overhead. The mechanism is discipline: map your wholesale partners by margin contribution, then test pulling the highest-margin SKUs into DTC-first drops. Let wholesale get the tail; keep the head for yourself. This compounds year on year.\nWhat that means for you: Zegna is not a startup; it's a 100-year-old house. The fact that a brand at that scale and price point is talking about DTC momentum as a growth driver tells you the playbook has fully migrated. It's not contrarian anymore. The game is how fast you can shift without breaking wholesale relationships—and Zegna's numbers say the answer is: fast.\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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