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  "headline": "UPF sun-protection apparel enters U.S. wholesale, appoints head of sales to scale retail.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Wholesale channel expansion + dedicated sales hire · Solbari\n\nUPF sun-protection apparel enters U.S. wholesale, appoints head of sales to scale retail.\n\nMost D2C brands try to sell wholesale themselves while running DTC. It doesn't work because buyers can tell you're not committed. Solbari reversed it: they hired the specialist first. Now the person in the room with retail partners wakes up every day thinking about that channel. That person becomes the relationship.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/solbari-2026-06-09t12-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/solbari-2026-06-09t12-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/solbari-2026-06-09t12-2",
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      "title": "UPF sun-protection apparel enters U.S. wholesale, appoints head of sales to scale retail.",
      "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 👇\nSolbari, an Australian UPF 50+ sun-protection brand, launched U.S. wholesale expansion and appointed Grayson Davis as head of sales to lead retail growth strategy, per Business Wire.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): hire the sales lead before you announce the wholesale program. That person becomes your proof to retail that you're serious, and your proof to the market that this channel is a priority. A single hire turns a press release into a signal. When you walk into a buyer's office, you're not a brand testing wholesale — you have a head of sales in the room.\nWhat that means for you: Most D2C brands try to sell wholesale themselves while running DTC. It doesn't work because buyers can tell you're not committed. Solbari reversed it: they hired the specialist first. Now the person in the room with retail partners wakes up every day thinking about that channel. That person becomes the relationship.\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 — Business Wire: https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20260429488136/solbari-launches-us-wholesale-expansion-and-appoints-grayson-davis-as-head-of-sales-to-lead-retail-growth-strategy.)\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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