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Creating A Community For A Niche Outdoor Brand Around

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Apart from online sales, they have brick and mortar stores in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Whistler, British Columbia ( with a 100,000 square foot retail operation under construction in Salt Lake City), an adventure travel business, and an outreach program to local retailers.

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Wildfang Is Building Its Brand With Clicks And Bricks

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More and more, digital-first brands are becoming brick-and-mortar-second brands with an intentional presence in the physical retail world — even if that presence is much smaller than the footprint left by the retailers that fizzled before them. The brand says it intends to keep expanding in the fall, with L.A. next on the list.

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Building A Niche Brand For Outdoor Enthusiasts

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Apart from online sales, they have brick-and-mortar stores (in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Whistler, and British Columbia, with a 100,000-square-foot retail operation under construction in Salt Lake City), an adventure travel business and an outreach program to local retailers.

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Building The Beard Trend Into A Successful eCommerce Portal 

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Beardbrand Founder Eric Bandholz is, perhaps unsurprisingly given his brands’ name, in the former camp. I realized there was a community of individuals like me. The brand has, however, expanded in wholesale partnerships, most notably with Target, which stocks its goods on shelves. . Make the world a better place.

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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Rate Hikes, Dollar Stores And EpiPens

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One minute, you can have the hottest product or store on the block — think Aéropostale about a decade ago — and the next, no one wants to buy the product any longer, the brand is now suddenly considered uncool and nobody’s shopping there any longer ( think Aéropostale today ). Retail’s a tough racket.

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Warby Of X: MiaDonna Delivers Lab-Grown Diamonds

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AP: For more than a decade, we have upheld a tradition of creating fine bridal jewelry that is eco-conscious, conflict-free and affordable for the consumer troubled by the environmental ramifications of mining and the history of violence in native diamond communities. AP: When we opened the doors to our Portland, Ore., AP: Yes, I do.

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Entrepreneurial Upscale Chefs Are Plating Recovery Plans

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It’s also a shrewd, low-overhead way to keep the brand active and foodies engaged until the COVID nightmare blows over. Bon Appetit reported on a variety of restaurant responses to COVID, including that of Portland, Oregon’s popular upscale Russian dining establishment, Kachka.

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