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  "headline": "UPF 50+ sun-protection brand enters U.S. wholesale with certified apparel focus.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Wholesale channel expansion · Solbari\n\nUPF 50+ sun-protection brand enters U.S. wholesale with certified apparel focus.\n\nMost brands chase Target first. Solbari is smarter: start in specialty retail where the customer is already convinced that certified protection is worth paying for. That's a whole different negotiation. You walk in with a product that educates, not a product that competes on price. The head of sales hire is the real move—they own the buyer relationships, not you.\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-2026-06-24t03-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/solbari-2026-06-24t03-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/solbari-2026-06-24t03-2",
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      "title": "UPF 50+ sun-protection brand enters U.S. wholesale with certified apparel focus.",
      "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 Morningstar, Australian brand Solbari appointed a head of sales and launched U.S. wholesale expansion targeting specialty retail as demand for certified daily sun-safe apparel grows.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): enter wholesale through specialty retail, not big-box. Specialty buyers are hunting for certifications they can tell their customers about. Solbari's play is positioning UPF as a \"daily\" category, not seasonal. Find the small-format retail partners (Ulta Beauty, specialty sporting goods, dermatology-adjacent retailers) that have permission to charge a premium and already educate their buyers on function. Your certification becomes their sales-training talking point. Hire a head of sales who knows those buyers, not DTC.\nWhat that means for you: Most brands chase Target first. Solbari is smarter: start in specialty retail where the customer is already convinced that certified protection is worth paying for. That's a whole different negotiation. You walk in with a product that educates, not a product that competes on price. The head of sales hire is the real move—they own the buyer relationships, not you.\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 — Morningstar: 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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