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Eight years ago, Nadia Boujarwah launched fashion styling and e-commerce company Dia & Co to cater to women wearing sizes 10-32. This customer segment has long been neglected, but according to Boujarwah, brand interest in serving the demo is at its height. “The social calls for inclusivity have never been more pronounced,” she said on the latest Glossy Podcast. “Inclusivity has really moved into the limelight in the last two years." She added, "We're hopeful we're at the beginning of the next renaissance of plus-size fashion, where both the social imperative and the inventory availability finally meet”. Old Navy recently laid the foundation for such a renaissance by launching inclusive sizing, pricing and merchandising across its women's product portfolio. Of course, not every brand can afford to make such an investment in the category -- but doing so isn't needed to forward progress, Boujarwah said. “Our advice to brands is to just start [offering plus-size options],” Boujarwah said. “As long as the customer knows they're on a journey with you – where things are going to get better, and that is communicated clearly – the endpoint doesn't have to be today.” In addition, Boujarwah discussed Dia & Co.'s strategic use of data, approach to fundraising and evolving business model.

Online apparel marketplace Dia&Co is trying to tap into the $21 billion inclusive sizing market. Within the last few years, more brands have begun introducing a wider range of sizes. But according to co-founder and CEO Nadia Boujarwah, most businesses are only scratching the surface. Boujarwah joined the Modern Retail Podcast this week and spoke about Dia&Co, as well as the current state of plus-size apparel. Dia&Co has been around for six years, and has witnessed big shifts in brands' plus-size strategies. “If you look at what the supply side of the [plus-size] equation is doing, it is remarkably anemic,” Boujarwah said. “About less than 20% of apparel dollars that are spent in the U.S. each year are spent in those sizes.” Her company has been trying to change that. Inclusive apparel has had its ups and downs over the last few years. Between 2018 and 2019, more brands were entering into the space than ever before, Boujarwah explained. But the coronavirus changed a lot of product roadmaps. Throughout that time, Dia&Co was focused on bringing a platform that women could trust to provide clothing choices in many sizes. Now, said Boujarwah, more brands are once again doubling down on plus-size options, which is giving Dia&Co a helpful boost. What's more, there's a large and growing group of plus-size influencers that Dia&Co has been tapping. Currently, the company partners with upwards of 500 influencers every month. Though Dia&Co has dabbled in building its own brands, Boujarwah said the company is primarily focused on connecting customers with other apparel giants like Madewell and Wacoal -- as well as helping those brands better market their plus-sized offerings. With that, Dia&Co has a huge opportunity at its fingertips, said Boujarwah. “We have always been a multi-branded retailer and a multi-category retailer. So our audience is broad,” she said. “Within that, we can serve different price-points.”

Hey peaches! Welcome to another episode of the Peach, Please! Podcast! This week I have such a special treat for you! I am talking to Nadia Bourjarwah, the Co-Founder and CEO of Dia & Co, the leading clothing and lifestyle brand for style in sizes 10-32. Nadia Boujarwah is the Co-Founder & CEO of Dia & Co. Growing up, Nadia struggled to find stylish clothing in her size. She knew she wasn't alone, so she teamed up with her Harvard Business School classmate Lydia Gilbert to transform the shopping experience for the 100 million plus-size women in America. Dia & Co stylists work with top brands — from industry staples to up-and-coming young designers — to provide each customer with curated looks to suit her unique style and shape. Dia has a dedicated and diverse customer base crossing all 50 states and more than 80 percent of ZIP codes. Prior to founding Dia & Co, Nadia worked as an investment banker at Perella Weinberg Partners, and most recently served as COO and CFO of New York-based jewelry brand Frieda and Nellie. With a Cuban mother and a Kuwaiti father, Nadia hails from both Miami and the Middle East, and is currently based in New York. Check out Dia & Co at www.dia.com and on Instagram @diaandco And you can connect with me in the following ways: IG, TikTok and Twitter @katieiswinnen Email me! peachpleasepodcast@gmail.com Bye peaches!

Dia and Co. founder and CEO Nadia Boujarwah knows a little bit — okay, a lotta bit — about plus size clothing, bathing suits, and wedding dresses. Plus collagen in her coffee, GrandeLash on her eyelashes and much more.Follow along with recs (and share your own via DM) on the “Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!” Instagram: www.instagram.com/geethanksjustboughtitpod and shop all of our recs here: https://shoplist.us/geethanksjustboughtit and here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/geethanksjustboughtit Mentioned on the show:Dia and Co bathing suits: https://fave.co/3oZRuSYVital Proteins Collagen: https://amzn.to/3wJ6bfNGrandeLash Serum: https://myshlf.us/p-88830GrandeLash Brow Serum: https://myshlf.us/p-88831 Top 8 Best Selling Products in the Gee Thanks! Community in 2020!8. The Hot Tub ($529): https://amzn.to/3aYP1TO7. Digit for saving: https://digit.co/r/GeeThanks?ab6. Rakuten for cash back while you shop: https://www.rakuten.com/r/CAROLI33174?eeid=281875. Universal Standard: https://fave.co/3l5KtN74. LED Lights: https://amzn.to/2WZO9WG3. Home Comforts: https://bookshop.org/a/9875/97807432728652. The Revlon One Step: https://amzn.to/3o96cFO1. The Garden Witch Overalls (Size up!): https://amzn.to/383oGltSubscribe to Hotline Skin, a twice monthly newsletter about skincare product recs from Jolie: https://www.geethanksjustboughtit.com/hotline-skin Subscribe to Flavor of the Week, a weekly newsletter featuring one product we love, why we love it, and where you can get it. It’s free! https://geethanks.substack.com/p/hello-flavor-of-the-week As always, reach me at Caroline@geethanksjustboughtit.com, @geethanksjustboughtitpod on Instagram, or leave me a message at 424-245-0736. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nadia Boujarwah is the Co-Founder & CEO of Dia&Co. Growing up, Boujarwah struggled to find stylish clothing in her size. She knew she wasn't alone, so she teamed up with her Harvard Business School classmate Lydia Gilbert to transform the shopping experience for the 100 million plus-size women in America. Dia&Co stylists work with top brands — from industry staples to up-and-coming young designers — to provide each customer with curated looks to suit her unique style and shape. Dia has a dedicated and diverse customer base crossing all 50 states and more than 80 percent of ZIP codes. Prior to founding Dia&Co, Boujarwah worked as an investment banker at Perella Weinberg Partners, and most recently served as COO and CFO of New York-based jewelry brand Frieda and Nellie. With a Cuban mother and a Kuwaiti father, Boujarwah hails from both Miami and the Middle East, and is currently based in New York.

When underdogs not only win, but become game changers in a space that's long (long) overdue for a new normal, I not only rejoice -- I bring conversations back to the Spirit of 608 podcast. In this week's #s0608 recycle, we hear from a founder who's company is creating seismic shifts in apparel by changing how clothing in sizes 14 and up looks in women's lives and in their closets. When we first spoke with this founder, she was on her way to proving that plus size fashion made not only logical, rational sense, but also whip-smart business sense. With a reported $95M in venture funding to date and the recent release of her brand's collaboration with iconic designer Betsey Johnson, she's showing that big name labels are ready to offer clothing in sizes that represent the real range of the U.S. population -- and not simply the minority whose bodies align with an industry's outdated, psychologically damaging and discriminatory marketing tactics. Listen in for a conversation that will inspire you to keep going in pursuit of what you believe in. Meet this week's guest, Nadia Boujarwah, CEO of Dia & Co. Sign up for the PressDope weekly email to get DIY PR tips and The Dope List of media opps, calls for pitches, FEST events and more ways to raise your visibility.  

Panel on Female Entrepreneurship with Nadia Boujarwah, co-founder/CEO of Dia&Co, Brit Morin, co-founder/CEO of Brit + Co and Katia Beauchamp, co-founder/CEO of Birchbox In this panel discussion about how female entrepreneurs can empower themselves while also building and scaling their businesses, these CEOs offer insights rooted in their own ups and downs.

Nadia Boujarwah is the co-founder and CEO of Dia&Co, the leading plus-size retail service. Dia&Co has incredible company culture and fans who love what Dia brings to the community. Nadia talks openly about her journey from the very beginning of how she went about building her business.

Nadia Boujarwah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dia&Co -- a shopping and styling resource for plus-sized fashion. Nadia and I talked about how she took her career from investment banking analyst to starting her own business, and all the hurdles in between.

Nadia Boujarwah went from not being able to find a prom dress for her high school prom, to being the CEO and Co-Founder of Dia & Co. Zach sits down with this incredible entrepreneur to talk about plus fashion, body positivity, and Dia & Co.'s rise to be an industry leader.

Nadia Boujarwah is the Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co, the startup that provides premier plus size clothing and styling for women. To date they have raised over $20m in funding from some of the best in the business including the likes of Alfred Lin @ Sequoia and the team @ NextView Ventures. Prior to Dia&Co Nadia was the CFO and COO @ Frieda and Nellie and also enjoyed time in the marketing and strategy team @ Diane von Furstenberg. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Nadia made her way from HBS grad to founding one of the hottest e-commerce companies of the day backed by Sequoia, Dia&Co? 2.) Why does Nadia believe that the biggest opportunity for value creation is through category creation? What does Nadia mean when she discusses category re-architecture? How does she think of the inherent cons (CAC, consumer education, distribution etc.) 3.) Despite the likes of Sequoia being invested now, the first year of Dia gained no institutional money. Why does Nadia think this is? What was the inflection point for VC interest? Is there anything that Nadia would change about how she has run the fundraising process? 4.) What does Nadia suggest as some core solutions to ensuring that more females become VCs? How does Nadia believe this will impact the types of companies that are being funded and built? What remain the core issues today? 5.) How does Nadia differentiate between customer centricity and customer devotion? Why is this so crucial in today's proliferated world of e-commerce? How does Nadi and Dia determine with data, the extent to which they achieve their customer devotion targets? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Nadia's Fave Book: Competing Against Luck As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Nadia on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Cooley are the global law firm built around startups and venture capital.  Since forming the first venture fund in Silicon Valley, Cooley has formed more venture capital funds than any other law firm in the world, with 50+ years working with VCs. They help VCs form and manage funds, make investments and handle the myriad issues that arise through a fund’s lifetime. So to learn more about the #1 most active law firm representing VC-backed companies going public. Head over to cooley.com and also at cooleygo.com. Zoom, fastest growing video and web conferencing service, providing one consistent enterprise experience that allows you to engage in an array of activities including video meetings and webinars, collaboration-enabled conference rooms, and persistent chat all in one easy platform. Plus, it is the easiest solution to manage, scale, and use, and has the most straightforward, affordable pricing. Don’t take our word for it. Zoom is the top rated conferencing app across various user review sites including G2Crowd and Trust Radius. And you can sign up for a free account (not a trial!). Just visit Zoom.us.

Rachel Roy's eponymous founder and Dia&Co CEO Nadia Boujarwah talk with Recode's Edmund Lee and Racked's Tiffany Yannetta about designing and selling clothes for plus-sized women, an addressable market of 100 million. To reach modern consumers, they match their companies' clothes with social media tastemakers who have big followings and a unique point of view. Plus-size consumers were among the first to make the jump to the internet, Roy and Boujarwah say, because they weren't served well by most brick-and-mortar stores.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the 32nd episode of the Loose Threads Podcast, a show about the intersection of consumer, retail and commerce, I talk with Nadia Boujarwah, a co-founder of Dia&Co, a company built with an exacting focus on serving the plus size market, which remains one of the largest growth opportunities in apparel today. Nadia founded the company as plus-size shopper herself, as few players were taking the category seriously and delivering the experience that its shoppers wanted and deserved. Dia&Co has made significant progress in the last few years, rebuilding the shopping experience from the ground up, launching labels in house, and working with a new crop of influencers that are highly relevant to the market. As I’m sure you can tell, Dia & Co is a very rare company in that its authenticity is on par with the size of the market. Also, persistence matters. I’m really excited to see where this company goes as it brings a new approach to a market desperately in need of it. — Show Notes — Dia&Co http://dia.com Edited by George Drake Jr. — About Loose Threads — http://LooseThreads.com Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/buLQY9 Twitter: http://twitter.com/loosethreadscom The Loose Threads Podcast explores the intersection of consumer, retail and commerce. Hosted by Richie Siegel, the founder of Loose Threads, each episode features an in-depth conversation with one guest about their founding story and how it fits into the current state of the industry. Guests come from all different backgrounds, spanning the consumer goods, fashion, retail and technology industries. The unifying thread is always the rapid change facing the industry and how entrepreneurs are responding. You can listen to the podcast on any player of your choice, in addition to on LooseThreads.com.

Since we last talked with Nadia, Dia&Co has quadrupled in size, raised $25 million, and moved into a new massive warehouse! Dia&Co is as dedicated as ever to connecting with an underserved market and challenging fashion designers to create for the plus size consumer. Check out our follow up interview with Nadia Boujarwah. and hear more about the #movefashionfoward campaign!

On the next Chenese Lewis Show – Nadia Boujarwah, the Co-Founder and CEO of Dia&Co, a body-positive shopping experience for women who wear sizes 14 and up. Dia&Co stylists work with top brands – from industry staples to up-and-coming young designers – to provide each customer with curated looks to suit their unique style and shape. Tune in to learn more about the premier personal styling service for plus size women!

Startups are exciting for any number of reasons, not least of which are all the fresh new ideas for products and various approaches to doing the work. But we forget that building successful startups is not actually about coming up with ideas. Instead, it's about finding problems, figuring out whether they truly matter (and to how many people), and working hard to solve them.   So what happens when you're obsessed with solving a problem? What does that do to your work, your team, your product, your success? Nadia Boujarwah, co-founder of Dia&Co, shares her story to answer those questions and more.   Plus, 3 special announcements about the future of the show.   SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE CONTENT FROM NEXTVIEW: bit.ly/nvsubscribe   GO BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Follow Jay on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/jayacunzo

Nadia Boujarwah went to Harvard Business school with the express goal of starting her own company. When she dove into the plus size market for women and saw how underserved this market was, she knew she had discovered her customer. After surveying hundreds of influential bloggers, Nadia co-founded Dia&Co, a company that, based on an online style survey, mails each subscriber a hand-picked box of garments to try on in the comfort of her own home. Today, Dia&Co has over 50 employees and has raised over $6 million. Listen to this week's episode to find out how Nadia and her team are inspiring radical self-acceptance through style and transforming the shopping experience for plus sized women.

Join Ken as he sits down with two retail extraordinaires, Gary Sheinbaum, CEO of Ashley Stewart, and Nadia Boujarwah, Co-Founder and CEO at Dia&Co. Discover how they're taking the plus-size industry by storm with their dynamic strategies and cutting-edge insights.From fashion to empowerment, learn how these industry leaders are changing the game and making a difference.