Dollar Shave Club Sells Out!

I may be a day or two behind, not sure, but this article came out today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/b...club-why-every-company-should-worry.html?_r=0

DSC sells out to Unilver for a cool Billion.

 

Great now their razors will soon be as much as gillette

 

That's the whole point of building a business like DSC, in reality. Get acquired, get retired.

 

Good for them. I hope their clients don't suffer under new mgmt.

Anheuser-Busch did it with the small breweries until small batch became a thing again. They'd block them at the supermarkets via lobbying the state beer boards until they couldn't block them any further by law any longer and then they'd buy them and slowly disappear that company's product. That is crony capitalism.

Unilever is taking a page from AB's playbook.

 

Yeah you have to wonder when the prices will start going up. The current owner is apparently staying on but corporate profit lust has to kick in at some point.

 

Yeah I could take a year or two off if I had a billion.

 

Yes I agree. Plus I've read a few analysts reviews of the purchase that suggest P&G might have been starting to show interest in acquiring them as well. Unilever was smart enough to know that if Gillette's parent company got the first major disrupter to the business as well it could be lights out for everyone else. Now you have to wonder when Harry's will be bought out. Unless they just aren't worth enough yet.

Unilever paid five times the annual revenue for DSC. That's a high price for a company with only 3.2 million customers and that was still considered unprofitable. They clearly wanted the brand.

 

Of course one could just order the razors direct from dorco usa and save even more money.

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Exactly right about Harry's. When they gain enough market share to make a dent, they will be acquired also.

 

I wish I knew how to do something like this, I'd sell in a minute take the money and run!

 

I'm angry at Unilever-they took the "deodorant " out of Lever Soap, and I believe they had something to do with the reason Rise Shaving Cream/Foam isn't the same today as it was in the 50's and 60's. I'll get the Rise story confirmed later.

 

Right, my "DisposeABLES keep going up(Gillette).

 

As far as I know DSC simply buys products, jacks up the price a bit and resells them, typical middleman operation. This hardly sounds like a wise investment for Unilever, they would have done better to buy Weber or some other actual manufacturer.

 

It's the business subscription list they are buying. Deprive your competition of revenue at every chance possible!

 

Steve Miller did that(well, yes and no, lol).

 

Actually Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue did that:

This here's a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
Two young lovers with nothin' better to do
Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose
They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso
That's where they ran into a great big hassle
Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle
Bobbie Sue took the money and run....

 

Right, LOL..

 

Billy Joel....shot a man while robbin his castle.........

 

Don't get radical on us! LOL Yeah, I was a member of DSC for awhile then found out the source. I might have actually started buying direct except the razors kept busting on me. Fortunately I finally read an article somewhere on guys who were going back to DE and here I am.

 

You'd think, except we all know there isn't enough profit in DE blades to justify the expense in their minds. It's the residual revenue they want, not the original razor revenue. That doesn't happen often enough.