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  "company": "New Balance",
  "headline": "Forecast lift to $10B in revenue on 19% 2025 growth—footwear momentum.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Financial guidance and retail momentum · New Balance\n\nForecast lift to $10B in revenue on 19% 2025 growth—footwear momentum.\n\nNineteen percent is a number that makes investors sit up, but most brands see it as unachievable. New Balance did it in a category where the last incumbent to move this fast was Adidas a decade ago. That means the work was not product—it was placement. If you are in footwear or hardgoods, your ceiling lives on the shelf, not in the campaign. Own the real estate first.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Financial guidance and retail momentum · New Balance\n\nForecast lift to $10B in revenue on 19% 2025 growth—footwear momentum.\n\nNineteen percent is a number that makes investors sit up, but most brands see it as unachievable. New Balance did it in a category where the last incumbent to move this fast was Adidas a decade ago. That means the work was not product—it was placement. If you are in footwear or hardgoods, your ceiling lives on the shelf, not in the campaign. Own the real estate first.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Retail & Shelf Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Financial guidance and retail momentum · New Balance\n\nForecast lift to $10B in revenue on 19% 2025 growth—footwear momentum.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/new-balance-2026-08-05t03-2",
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      "title": "Forecast lift to $10B in revenue on 19% 2025 growth—footwear 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 👇\nNew Balance reported 19 percent revenue growth in 2025 and eyes $10B in annual revenue, per SGB Media.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when a footwear brand grows 19% in a single year, the machinery is not better marketing—it is better shelf placement and product-retailer alignment. New Balance likely shifted its field strategy to secure front-of-store fixtures and expanded its house-imprinted retail (own-brand stores and DTC). Run this play by auditing your wholesale partners' floor space: if you own less than 30% of your category's linear feet at key doors, your growth cap is already set. Negotiate space before inventory.\nWhat that means for you: Nineteen percent is a number that makes investors sit up, but most brands see it as unachievable. New Balance did it in a category where the last incumbent to move this fast was Adidas a decade ago. That means the work was not product—it was placement. If you are in footwear or hardgoods, your ceiling lives on the shelf, not in the campaign. Own the real estate first.\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 — SGB Media: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxPS3d1X0I4UG1mZUl1SjlzbWRnUkc5eXRCVlNsSXlSYThzQkZ1MzRsZHNLSEhKcXc4Z29vZGNqTE5tMDY3UFNzeERvV2xNckxiTlJKVjNzYVVnRGZ2T3FyVFVHWGNsQmx3Q29PTFVlSHZDWUxrRVJ6TG81SUpOWFR3aHQ3RjhCdmluRE1NQWJlVDRhX2xQaERZX1dMYjR5Zw.)\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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