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  "company": "The Nue Co.",
  "headline": "Fragrance grew from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta partnership.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Category rebalance through retail expansion · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance grew from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta partnership.\n\nThe Nue Co. didn't launch 'new fragrance.' They moved fragrance from their DTC backlog to a front-of-house retail partner, and it became 85% of the business. That's not brand growth, that's distribution leverage. Most small brands pitch their bestseller to retail and hope. The real play is the category your own customers sleep on, the one that's sitting in your warehouse doing fine but not moving like it could. Ulta made it move. Find your Ulta.\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-2026-07-18t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-18t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-18t21-2",
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      "title": "Fragrance grew from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta partnership.",
      "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. expects fragrance to account for 85% of total company net sales in 2026, up from approximately 20% two years prior, driven by growth through Ulta, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): audit your top three SKUs by margin and velocity. Find the retail partner whose customer profile over-indexes on your second-tier (or hidden) category. Pitch them a limited shelf test of that one category, not your full line. Ulta customers came for beauty tools; they bought fragrance at scale because Ulta's merchandising and discovery layer made it visible. Map your inventory against each retail partner's strength, then specialize the pitch. Don't ask for your whole catalog; ask for the category that fits their customer better than it fits yours.\nWhat that means for you: The Nue Co. didn't launch 'new fragrance.' They moved fragrance from their DTC backlog to a front-of-house retail partner, and it became 85% of the business. That's not brand growth, that's distribution leverage. Most small brands pitch their bestseller to retail and hope. The real play is the category your own customers sleep on, the one that's sitting in your warehouse doing fine but not moving like it could. Ulta made it move. Find your Ulta.\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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