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  "company": "The Nue Co.",
  "headline": "Fragrance category swelled from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail distribution shift · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance category swelled from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta.\n\nEvery founder I talk to wants to be everywhere. Amazon, DTC, Whole Foods, Target, Sephora, TikTok Shop — the full stack. The Nue Co. picked ONE retailer and owned a category inside it. That concentration is not a compromise. It's the win. You grow 65 percentage points when you're not splitting your inventory and marketing budget across six channels and eight customer expectations. Pick the retail door your buyer already walks through. Put your best SKU there. Let their machine do what it's built to do.\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-2026-07-19t12-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t12-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t12-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Retail distribution shift · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance category swelled from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta.\n\nEvery founder I talk to wants to be everywhere. Amazon, DTC, Whole Foods, Target, Sephora, TikTok Shop — the full stack. The Nue Co. picked ONE retailer and owned a category inside it. That concentration is not a compromise. It's the win. You grow 65 percentage points when you're not splitting your inventory and marketing budget across six channels and eight customer expectations. Pick the retail door your buyer already walks through. Put your best SKU there. Let their machine do what it's built to do.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t12-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t12-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t12-2",
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      "title": "Fragrance category swelled from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta",
      "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. saw fragrance grow from approximately 20% of sales two years ago to an expected 85% of total net sales this year, driven by expanded shelf presence at Ulta.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not chase omnichannel complexity. Find the ONE retailer where your customer already shops for adjacent categories, place your biggest SKU there, and let their traffic carry you. The Nue Co. sells beauty and wellness; Ulta sells beauty and wellness to the same person. The brand did not have to build audience or awareness. It had to be where the audience already went. Fragrance is a category Ulta's customer buys. The Nue Co. made sure they saw it there first.\nWhat that means for you: Every founder I talk to wants to be everywhere. Amazon, DTC, Whole Foods, Target, Sephora, TikTok Shop — the full stack. The Nue Co. picked ONE retailer and owned a category inside it. That concentration is not a compromise. It's the win. You grow 65 percentage points when you're not splitting your inventory and marketing budget across six channels and eight customer expectations. Pick the retail door your buyer already walks through. Put your best SKU there. Let their machine do what it's built to do.\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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