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Evolus wants more than a wrinkle in Botox’s business
Jeuveau gave Evolus a foothold in cosmetic injections. Fillers, a $49 membership and a growing overseas business are testing whether it can turn that foothold into lasting profits.
Mobily sells phone plans. Its bigger bet is under the surface.
The company that broke Saudi Arabia’s mobile monopoly is building a business in fiber, data centers and cables beneath the Red Sea. Getting there has meant a costly license, an accounting reckoning and a new test of what a telecom operator can sell.
1stDibs Put the Flea Market Online. The Hard Part Was the Checkout.
Rare chairs, real money, and the business of getting strangers to trust each other. How 1stDibs turned a Paris shopping habit into a public marketplace - and why shipping quotes now matter as much as taste.
Fractal Spent 26 Years Learning the Part of AI That Demos Skip
The models get the attention. Fractal built a public company around the less glamorous work - clean data, redesigned workflows and enough trust to let an algorithm influence a real decision.
Progress Software’s $1.3 Billion Bet: Boring Software Still Runs the World
Progress keeps buying the unglamorous tools companies cannot casually rip out. The result is a profitable software cabinet - and a live test of whether disciplined consolidation can outrun integration risk and the damage from one very public security failure.
ATCO’s 15-Trailer Playbook for Building What Everyone Needs - and Surviving What Breaks
ATCO grew from 15 utility trailers into a C$28 billion-asset group by pairing dependable networks with buildings that can move. Its next test is whether that same portfolio logic can absorb grid bottlenecks, policy uncertainty and a C$2.9 billion pipeline bet.
The 116-Year-Old Appliance Company That Quietly Runs Your Kitchen Counter
It designs the blender, licenses the Clorox name, lets a factory in China build it, and sells it to Walmart. A look at how a 116-year-old brand keeps winning the countertop.
Spectrum Brands Sold the Locks for $4.36 Billion. Now Comes the Hard Part.
The company behind FURminator, Tetra, Cutter and Remington made billions by selling a business it had improved. Its next trick is harder: proving that a smaller portfolio can grow without losing the scale that made the collection useful.
The $671 Billion Machine Built on Private Credit
Ares grew from a Los Angeles credit shop into a sprawling private-markets platform by learning to lend where banks pulled back - then carrying that playbook into property, infrastructure, secondaries and insurance.
Keel Infrastructure Is Betting the AI Boom Will Be Won Before the Servers Arrive
The company formerly known as Bitfarms has traded Bitcoin mines for a 2.2-gigawatt pipeline of powered sites. Now it has to turn scarce megawatts into long-term tenants.
The Outdoor Portfolio Hiding Inside Your Fishing Boat
Johnson Outdoors owns a collection of century-old names and sensor-rich new gear. Its advantage is clearest on the water, where motors, sonar, maps and kayaks are becoming one connected system.
The $6.7 Billion Company Hiding in Your Cleaning Closet
Clorox began with five men, $500 and a bottle of industrial bleach. More than a century later, its real product is a portfolio of small, repeatable solutions to messy everyday life - now with Purell at the center of a sharper health-and-hygiene bet.
The 36-Year-Old Engineer Behind the AI Everyone Else Is Pitching
Persistent Systems spent decades doing the unglamorous engineering beneath other companies' software. Now that AI has made architecture fashionable, its old habit of building what must actually work looks newly valuable.
The 168-Year-Old Island Bank Making a $10 Billion Leap
First Hawaiian Bank has spent 168 years learning how to be local. Its proposed TriCo deal asks whether that advantage can cross the Pacific without losing what made the bank valuable in the first place.
The Company Behind Your Coffee Break Is Preparing to Split in Two
Keurig Dr Pepper built an unusual empire by pairing supermarket coolers with kitchen counters. Now, after buying JDE Peet's, it is integrating a global coffee business while preparing to turn one sprawling beverage company into two focused ones.
The $1.8 Billion Company Hiding in Your Cabinets
You may never shop for Helen of Troy. You may already own three of its products. The company behind OXO, Hydro Flask, Osprey and a crowded bathroom shelf has spent five decades mastering the art of being everywhere without being obvious.
The Diet That Invented Group Therapy Now Writes Prescriptions
It taught a generation to count points and lean on each other. Then a weekly shot changed the math - so WeightWatchers went to the doctor.
The $4.50 Cleaning Bet That Now Runs 6 Billion Square Feet a Day
ABM began with a bucket, a sponge, a mop and $4.50. Today it sells something far more complicated: the promise that airports depart, data centers stay awake and ballparks are ready before the gates open.
The Strange, Useful Machine Behind a $200 Pawn Loan
EZCORP has built a continent-spanning business around a simple exchange: bring in something valuable, leave with cash. The same counter also feeds a secondhand retail network - one object, two businesses, and a revealing view of the modern household budget.
Amentum Is the $14 Billion Company Behind the Missions You Rarely See
It helps launch spacecraft, secure data, sustain military fleets and clean up nuclear legacies. Amentum's real product is the ability to make high-consequence systems work for years at a time.
Reddit, Inc.
The self-described front page of the internet spent nineteen years as a scrappy forum before going public. Now its archive of human argument has become one of the most valuable training grounds in artificial intelligence.
Group 1 Automotive
Group 1 Automotive built a $22.6 billion business by treating the dealership as the beginning of a relationship, not the end of a sale. Its real engine sits behind the showroom door: service bays, parts counters, finance desks and a digital platform designed to keep drivers in the network.
LGI Homes
LGI Homes turned the intimidating business of buying a first house into a repeatable system. Its wager is that fewer choices, finished homes and a guided sales process can put ownership within reach - while keeping a national builder disciplined on cost.
Arcos Dorados
Behind Latin America’s Big Macs sits a Montevideo company running 2,520 restaurants, a 115-million-user data engine and one of the region’s largest first-job machines. Its real product is consistency at continental scale.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings sells the same scarce commodity three ways: a week away. Its three-brand portfolio, growing fleet and private destinations reveal how a cruise company turns beds at sea into a $9.8 billion vacation business.
Mercury Insurance
Mercury built a nearly $6 billion insurance business by pairing disciplined underwriting with thousands of independent agents. Now it is adding apps, telematics and online service without abandoning the human network that still produces most of its premiums.
Goldman Sachs
For 156 years the firm at 200 West Street has been in the room when companies go public, countries borrow, and fortunes change hands. Here is how the deal machine actually works.
Marsh
The 155-year-old professional services firm has turned uncertainty into a $27 billion business. Its real product is neither a policy nor a spreadsheet, but a better-informed decision before the bill comes due.
M/I Homes, Inc.
M/I Homes sells the house, helps personalize it, finances the buyer and stays on the hook after closing. Fifty years in, that unusually complete chain is being tested by the most stubborn problem in American housing: affordability.
Valley Bank
Valley Bank has spent nearly a century getting bigger without wanting to feel big. Now, with about $64 billion in assets and a push into partner banking, it is testing whether a regional lender can offer national-bank machinery with a relationship banker still attached.