James Le Compte is the CEO at To’ak Chocolate. A luxury chocolate brand, where sharing the origin story is everything. Founded in 2013, with their first product available in 2014 they are a Shopify merchant and are growing DTC at 50% year on year.
[Read more…]390: Discover the perfect DTC Playbook with DTC veteran Mike Stevens
Mike Stevens is the author of the brand new book “The Direct to Consumer Playbook: The Stories and Strategies of the Brands that Wrote the DTC Rules”. And one could say he was one of the DTC pioneers with 8 years at Innocent Drinks back in the 2000s, and then founding good-for-you confectionery brand Peppersmith which over 10 years he scaled all the way to exit in 2018.
Mike now helps start-ups and challenger brands scale through various mentoring schemes, as a consultant via Stevens.Earth and via his brand new book!
[Read more…]389: Growing a swimwear brand to over 7 figures with Charys Caldarella from Styelle Swim
Charys Caldarella is the CEO and founder of Styelle Swim, a sustainable swimwear fashion brand. Founded in 2016 they are now on track to hit 1million euros this year.
[Read more…]388: Taking a sustainable, money saving brand to £5m a year with Helen Rankin from Cheeky Wipes
Helen Rankin is the founder and general dogsbody at Cheeky Wipes, a simple reusables brand who’s been leading the charge since 2008. Selling reusable baby wipes, period products, nappies, and more. They’re now a multi-awarding winning business with 35 staff and sales of over £5m a year.
[Read more…]386: Going from ZERO to £200k sales on Shopify in 8 weeks with Rob from The Moon Phase Studio
Rob Harrison-Plastow is the Chief Marketing Officer of the Moon Phase Studio. The studio exists to empower its customers to become more attuned to the moon through art, books, and rituals. It was founded in November 2020 they went from zero to £200k in 8 just weeks!
[Read more…]385: Building a sustainable loungewear brand with PR and Community – it’s Krisha Kotak from Tula+Tye
Krisha Kotak is the founder of Tula + Tye, a loungewear brand responsibly made from recycled and organic materials, hand-dyed with eco-friendly dyes, and packaged in recycled and reusable bags. Founded in 2020 it attracted over 600 customers in the first year.
[Read more…]382: Launching a luxury sustainable fashion brand with funding and a kickstarter! It’s VENIM
Leslie Fong has been in eCommerce since 2009, and in 2018 took the leap into founding her own fashion brand. VENIM launched with a super successful kickstarter in 2019, has been awarded grants by Spanx, SIA Scotch, and Facebook, AND been nominated in FGI’s Rising Star Awards.
[Read more…]381: The Fashion Business Model of the Future? This is Unfolded with Cally Russell
Cally Russell is a Forbes 30 under 30, a Drapers 30 under 30, has been on Dragons Den (that’s the UK’s shark tank). Since 2013 Cally has been changing the fashion industry, and since 2020 that change has been highly focused on using data to remove waste and change lives. His current project is This is Unfolded, a fashion brand doing amazing things on many fronts! I’m going to let Cally explain all about it in a moment.
[Read more…]377: Taking a Sustainable Products brand to 2million+ customers with Jennie Perry from Grove Collaborative
Jennie Perry is the Chief Marketing Officer at Grove Collaborative, an eCommerce store that crafts and curates earth-changing products for the home with over 2 million customers. Jennie’s been marketing products and retailer stores (on and offline) for over 25 years including Old Navy, Stride Rite, Amazon Fashion & Amazon Prime.
[Read more…]373: How Sustainability and Community are super-powering this fashion brand with Katie McCourt from Pantee
Katie McCourt is the co-founder of Shopify Fashion store Pantee, a range of sustainable underwear made from deadstock. Launched with a very successful Kickstarter in Nov 2020 they’ve had a phenomenal start with a growing tribe of happy customers, they’ve just completed another successful round of fundraising, and amazing press coverage including being named one of the ‘9 best sustainable lingerie brands you need to know about’ AND being one of this year’s Drapers 30 under 30! (for non-UK listeners, Drapers Magazine is the beating heart of the UK fashion industry).
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