Dollar Shave Club

Unilever PLC (NYSE:UL) is acquiring personal care brand Dr. Squatch for $1.5 billion. This is the company’s next big bet on male grooming products after the deal with Dollar Shave Club fell flat in 2023, resulting in its sale to Nexus Capital Management. What Happened: The consumer goods...

Somewhere in the midwest, Brian Sonia-Wallace rides an Amtrak — an antiquated experience suitable for an artist of a dying breed. Typewriter in tow, he’s documenting, in poetry, the lives of characters encountered. Sonia-Wallace won Amtrak’s writer-in-residence contract in 2016...

Pharmaceutical compounder Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: IMMY) first stepped onto the national stage in December 2015, when the company announced its partnership with Express Scripts Holding Company (NASDAQ: ESRX) to distribute a $1 Daraprim alternative following Martin Shkreli and Turing...

Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE: UL), a major U.K.-based conglomerate that oversees approximately 400 brands across the world, paid $1 billion to acquire Dollar Shave Club, a direct-to-consumer seller of shaving razors and other healthcare products. According to the Wall Street Journal, Unilever bought...

Dollar Shave Club's fame and success could be attributed to a viral marketing campaign it produced 2012. The company's founder, Michael Dubin, produced and starred in the video in which he showed a tour of the company's warehouse, explaining why his "blades are f—ing great." The video helped...