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  "headline": "Fragrance climbs from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta distribution.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ GOLD · Category expansion + retail velocity · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance climbs from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta distribution.\n\nThis is the kind of move that looks like a pivot in hindsight but starts as a single retail partnership decision. The Nue Co. didn't decide to become a fragrance company — they noticed fragrance moved faster on Ulta and fed that channel. The P&L shifted as a result. Most founders try to force balance across categories. Sometimes the smarter play is to let one category run on one channel and let that channel pull the rest of the business forward.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-18t15-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-18t15-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-18t15-3",
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      "title": "Fragrance climbs from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta distribution.",
      "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 👇\nThe Nue Co. shifted fragrance from 20% of sales two years ago to 85% of total company net sales in 2026, driven by Ulta placement, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): inventory your top-performing category by channel. If one SKU generates 3x the velocity on one retail partner, shift your allocation and marketing budget to that channel-category combination, not across all channels equally. Get Ulta placement for one hero fragrance; the channel will drive the category lift and the category will drive other SKUs. Most brands spread evenly; the winners concentrate.\nWhat that means for you: This is the kind of move that looks like a pivot in hindsight but starts as a single retail partnership decision. The Nue Co. didn't decide to become a fragrance company — they noticed fragrance moved faster on Ulta and fed that channel. The P&L shifted as a result. Most founders try to force balance across categories. Sometimes the smarter play is to let one category run on one channel and let that channel pull the rest of the business forward.\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 — Glossy: https://www.glossy.co/beauty/the-nue-co-ulta-fragrance-growth/?utm_campaign=glossydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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