Ben & Frank: Mexico's Warby Parker Built a Brand to Undercut Itself
Aaron Alpeter and Casey Armstrong of ShipBob break down Ben & Frank, a profitable Mexican eyewear brand with 100+ stores that copied Warby P...
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DeWalt's Mexico Factory Still Doesn't Qualify for USMCA
DeWalt operates a fully vertically integrated, 500,000-square-foot factory in Reynosa, Mexico, and by the company's own account, less than a...
Mexico Manufacturing: Why "Cheap Labor" Isn't the Real Reason Brands Are Moving | Javier Zarazúa
Kicking off our Mexico season with Javier Zarazúa Ruiz, Managing Partner of JL Nearshoring Mexico and a 25-year veteran of manufacturing ope...
Dr Martens: Durability Isn't an Engineering Problem, it's a Business Model Problem.
Dr. Martens built a boot designed to outlive its owner. So why did a company built on permanence need you to buy five more pairs? This week...
New Balance: The Dad Shoe That Waited for the World to Catch Up
New Balance spent most of its 120-year history as a punchline: the gray suede sneaker your dad wore with white crew socks and a phone holste...
The Shoe Company That Almost Died Three Weeks Before Chinese New Year
Two years ago we recorded an episode on On Running. This week we're re-airing it, and it holds up better than I expected. When we recorded i...
Veja: The Sneaker Brand That Spent Its Marketing Budget on the Supply Chain
Veja is usually filed under "sustainable sneaker brand." That label is true and far too small. In this footwear-season episode of Ecommerce...
Why Rothy's Built the Factory Before They Built the Shoe
Rothy's is known for sustainable shoes made from recycled plastic bottles. But that's not actually what they built. In this episode, Aaron a...
How Birkenstock Built a $1.6 Billion Footwear Empire
Birkenstock is one of the most recognizable footwear brands in the world. But what most people don't realize is that the company spent over...
How Hoka Built a Billion-Dollar Shoe Brand
Why did a strange-looking running shoe with giant foam soles become a billion-dollar brand? This week on Ecommerce on Tap, Aaron Alpeter and...
Why Footwear Is Secretly One of the Hardest Industries in Consumer
In this kickoff episode of the new Ecommerce on Tap footwear season, Aaron Alpeter sits down with footwear founder Daniella to unpack the hi...
Why Unilever Bought Grüns for $1.2B
Grüns didn’t just build a supplement brand — they redefined how people consume greens. In less than 3 years, they went from launch to a $1.2...
The Future of Fragrance: From Luxury to Daily Ritual
Fragrance is no longer just a luxury — it’s becoming a daily ritual. In this episode of Ecommerce on Tap, Aaron Alpeter sits down with 5 SEN...
How Ari by Ariana Grande Made $1B — No Ownership
$1B in sales… and Ari by Ariana Grande barely owns it. • Why Ari by Ariana Grande scaled to $1B through licensing instead of ownership • How...
How Byredo Built a $200M Luxury Brand Without Heritage
Luxury brands used to take centuries to build. But Byredo did it in less than 20 years. In this episode of Ecommerce on Tap, we break down h...
From Huda Beauty to Kayali: The $100M Fragrance Spinout
Prestige fragrance is one of the most structurally gated industries in consumer beauty. Four compounding houses control formulation. Retaile...
The Le Labo Playbook: How a $30M Fragrance Brand Redefined Beauty Acquisitions
Le Labo didn’t scale the way fragrance brands were supposed to — and that’s exactly why it worked. In this episode of Ecommerce On Tap, we b...
Why “Signature Scents” Are Fading and What DedCool Got Right
Fragrance didn’t fail because people wanted fewer options. It failed because it forced certainty in a world that isn’t. In this episode of E...
How Phlur Rebuilt Fragrance for the TikTok Era (And What Every Brand Can Learn)
Fragrance didn’t suddenly work online—it needed a new translator. For decades, fragrance was built around authority, aspiration, and departm...
Everything You Need to Know About Launching and Scaling a Modern Fragrance Brand
Welcome to ECommerce On Tap, where Aaron and Nathan dive deep into the inner workings of the world’s most dynamic consumer categories. This...