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  "company": "Ermenegildo Zegna Group",
  "headline": "Luxury brand posts double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026 on DTC velocity.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Direct-to-consumer expansion · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nLuxury brand posts double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026 on DTC velocity.\n\nluxury brands historically guard wholesale relationships because they move volume fast and abdicate marketing spend to retail partners. Zegna inverted it—they kept the margin, kept the customer, and absorbed the marketing cost themselves. Run this on a smaller scale: if your wholesale partner is taking 50% and you're paying for the ad anyway, that's your signal to test a DTC-first quarter. Take one SKU, sell it direct for three months, and measure the gross margin lift against what you paid in media. The difference is your true wholesale cost.\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-2026-08-10t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-10t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-10t15-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Direct-to-consumer expansion · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nLuxury brand posts double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026 on DTC velocity.\n\nluxury brands historically guard wholesale relationships because they move volume fast and abdicate marketing spend to retail partners. Zegna inverted it—they kept the margin, kept the customer, and absorbed the marketing cost themselves. Run this on a smaller scale: if your wholesale partner is taking 50% and you're paying for the ad anyway, that's your signal to test a DTC-first quarter. Take one SKU, sell it direct for three months, and measure the gross margin lift against what you paid in media. The difference is your true wholesale cost.\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-2026-08-10t15-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-10t15-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-10t15-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Direct-to-consumer expansion · Ermenegildo Zegna Group\n\nLuxury brand posts double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026 on DTC velocity.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ermenegildo-zegna-group-2026-08-10t15-1",
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      "title": "Luxury brand posts double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026 on DTC velocity.",
      "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 Rutland Herald, Ermenegildo Zegna Group recorded double-digit revenue growth in Q2 2026 with accelerating direct-to-consumer momentum as a core driver.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): luxury brands historically guard wholesale relationships because they move volume fast and abdicate marketing spend to retail partners. Zegna inverted it—they kept the margin, kept the customer, and absorbed the marketing cost themselves. Run this on a smaller scale: if your wholesale partner is taking 50% and you're paying for the ad anyway, that's your signal to test a DTC-first quarter. Take one SKU, sell it direct for three months, and measure the gross margin lift against what you paid in media. The difference is your true wholesale cost.\nWhat that means for you: luxury brands historically guard wholesale relationships because they move volume fast and abdicate marketing spend to retail partners. Zegna inverted it—they kept the margin, kept the customer, and absorbed the marketing cost themselves. Run this on a smaller scale: if your wholesale partner is taking 50% and you're paying for the ad anyway, that's your signal to test a DTC-first quarter. Take one SKU, sell it direct for three months, and measure the gross margin lift against what you paid in media. The difference is your true wholesale cost.\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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