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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bloomingdale's comes up
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
- ▶ 43:01 Joey Shamah She said, I just got an email that you're being bought by Bloomingdale's and that all your cosmetics are going up in price. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:02 Joey Shamah I didn't manufacture that Bloomingdale's email, but I could have tried to, but it doesn't mean I would have been successful.
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 9:15 Gregg Renfrew You know, again, remember, I'm in my mid to late twenties at this point, and I'm going to millions of weddings, and I'm looking at the process by which people are attaining their wedding gifts, and I'm thinking people are standing with the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:44 Gregg Renfrew We immediately garnered press in the U.S., and the couples really liked it because unlike walking around Bloomingdale's on a Saturday afternoon, just scanning something, you were actually met by a consultant who said, okay, tell me about…
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 24:40 Daniel Lubetzky I think it's all about grit, and I think about, I need to get this product in every store, and in my mind, that means that product belongs in Whole Foods, but it also belongs in the convenience store in the corner, and it also belongs in…
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
- ▶ 40:14 Kristen Rude So we do about 70% direct on our website, and then we also sell through Masonette, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, um, Janie and Jack, and then we're in a handful of kind of ski shops and outdoor stores across the country.
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 3:56 Alex and Mike Faherty And I was like, there's something, I'm into this, I'm into walking into Bloomingdale's by myself after school and going to the Ralph Lauren store, and then you get to high school, and you're like, trying to create my own style, and
- ▶ 39:12 Guy Raz We want to be in Nordstrom's and Bloomingdale's and, uh, we want to do both or we want, you know, because the margins on direct to consumer are higher, they're better.
- ▶ 43:12 Guy Raz And if you, and if me, uh, or anybody walks into a Bloomingdale's and I just need a pair of trousers, 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
- ▶ 22:10 Catherine Shaw We want to be in natural channel grocery stores like Whole Foods and Sprouts, but we also want to be in specialty retailers like Airports, Total Wine, Nordstrom's, and Bloomingdale's, where we've launched this year.
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Advice Line with Richard Branson of Virgin
- ▶ 11:30 Lola Banjo Yeah, we are also partnered with Nordstrom, Stacks, and the Summer Macy's Bloomingdale's as well, so, um, definitely building, and we just launched five years ago, so
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori
Advice Line with Sarah Kauss of S'well
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- ▶ 20:32 Isaac Larian He was, I think, 22, 23, and we went to Bloomingdale to buy suits, and I picked two, and he picked one, and I told him, go ask the guy for a discount. 3 times in the scene
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
- ▶ 1:00:26 Paige Mycoskie Like I looked at like orders I had for Bloomingdale's that I knew were going to get canceled.
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 38:58 Lyndon Cormack Bloomingdale's or Nordstrom or a little sneaker shop.
Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
Tory Burch: Tory Burch
Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- ▶ 9:59 Polina Veksler So what she ended up doing was she said, let's go to Bloomingdale's, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Polina Veksler So yeah, what we actually did was we went back to Bloomingdale's
- ▶ 45:03 Guy Raz I mean, do you see it on the racks at Bloomingdale's?
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
- ▶ 7:32 Charlie Clifford There was a reasonable amount of enthusiasm, particularly in the gift store market, but in the northeast, I was able to sell to Bam Burgers in New Jersey and Bloomingdale's in New York to their gift departments, and we, we enjoyed a pretty…
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 2:49 Guy Raz Places like Bloomingdale's and Lane.
- ▶ 11:23 Guy Raz And, and, and as for you, Mitchell, I think out of college, one of, like, one of your very first jobs was with Bloomingdale's, right?
- ▶ 11:46 Mitchell Gold He said, you should be in retail because he used to work at Bloomingdale's, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Mitchell Gold Well, first of all, as a buyer at Bloomingdale's, you went to Furniture Factory,
- ▶ 17:08 Guy Raz When you met, Bob, were you still at Bloomingdale's?
- ▶ 24:35 Guy Raz And so what is the idea that you guys would go to your old contacts that you had from Lane and from Bloomingdale's and, and pitch them your products and essentially try to get them into those stores? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:36 Guy Raz The idea was you would be a furniture maker, and you would sell your furniture through these, uh, retail channels, whether it was Levitt's, or Jay Penny's, or, or maybe Bloomingdale's.
- ▶ 1:03:37 Guy Raz When you think about the journey you had, Bloomingdale's and Lane and then moving to North Carolina and starting this little dining room chair business into what it is now, you know, at least three hundred million dollar business a year.
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
- ▶ 1:02:42 Norma Kamali Yes, so, for my entire career, I would put in styles in the store, and then the people from Bloomydale's would come in, and I would see full page ads with my styles, but not with my name on it, but with Bloomydale's, and... 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Daniela Corrente of Reel
Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
- ▶ 15:53 Kenneth Cole My first year in business, I sold Saks, I sold Macy's, I sold Boomingdale's, I sold, uh, Bergdorf's, I think.
- ▶ 27:34 Kenneth Cole So, um, Bloomingdale's gave, gave me my own shoe department on the main floor.
- ▶ 31:47 Guy Raz So essentially, by 1984, you've got this brand, you're in Bloomingdale's, and I'm assuming that now your customers are mainly big department stores, mainly in New York.
- ▶ 50:34 Kenneth Cole Because there's people that wanted to buy from Nordstrom, or from Bloomingdale's, or from Saks, or wherever it was, and they're gonna do that, and I just helped create a cachet and elevate the brand equation on their behalf, so everybody…
The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd
S'well: Sarah Kauss
- ▶ 20:34 Sarah Kauss Oh, I, I wrote that we were going to be the, the water bottle partner to Fashion Week and, and the TED conference and sold in Bloomingdale's and, you know, changing the world.
- ▶ 31:48 Sarah Kauss You know, I, I wrote that manifesto, that, that small business plan, and said, you know, we're gonna be sold in Bloomingdale's, and the buyer said, no way, we don't sell water bottles.
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
EO Products: Susan Griffin-Black & Brad Black
- ▶ 29:19 Susan Griffin Black So, um, in 1995, Bloomingdale's called and said, will you, will you make us 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:50 Guy Raz Little bottles, and it had to look nice, because it's Bloomingdale's. 2 times in the scene
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
- ▶ 7:10 Mei Xu But what's interesting out of all these not so interesting things is that they put me in a hotel, um, next to Bloomingdale's. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:35 Mei Xu So I called Bloomingdale's, and I was um, working with the secretaries, begging and pleading that uh, I have a great product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:17 Mei Xu And I know a lot of teachers of mine who have great taste, who would never be able to buy things that are so expensive at Bloomingdale's. 3 times in the scene
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017)
- ▶ 25:50 Eileen Fisher And, um, I remember that's when, uh, I think it was a buyer, somebody from Bloomingdale's came in, because they'd been looking at the line and curious, and they, um, would say things like, um, you know, you know, great clothes, but, you… 4 times in the scene
Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher
- ▶ 25:51 Eileen Fisher Again, similar experience to that, um, boutique show where, you know, people just stood in line and bought clothes and stacks of clothes, and they were so delighted to find the store, and, um, I remember that's when, uh, I think it was a… 4 times in the scene
Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman
- ▶ 21:16 Jenn Hyman We did real life research, which was, we went to Bloomingdale's, we bought about a hundred dresses, all in our own sizes, so that if this whole experiment didn't work out, we would have an awesome new wardrobe.
Kendra Scott: Kendra Scott
- ▶ 33:18 Kendra Scott Yeah, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's.
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
- ▶ 6:35 Mei Xu But what's interesting out of all these not so interesting things is that they put me in a hotel, um, next to Bloomingdale's. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Mei Xu So I called Bloomingdale's, and I was, um, working with the secretaries, begging and pleading that, uh, I have a great product. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Mei Xu And I know a lot of teachers of mine who have great taste, who would never be able to buy things that are so expensive at Bloomingdale's. 3 times in the scene