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Founded in 2014 by Ariel Kaye, Parachute set out to make premium, thoughtfully designed home essentials for everyone. JBC ran the press office for nearly a decade — a 6,000-hit editorial program tuned to retail expansion, designer collaborations, and the cultural moments that made the brand inevitable.
Six thousand press hits, twenty-six store openings, and a partnership that scaled with every retail milestone — told as a coordinated editorial program rather than a campaign calendar.
Press hits across the partnership.
Retail openings supported with national and regional press.
Towel sales lift after the 2023 Good Morning America segment.
How does a digitally native home brand earn the editorial credibility — and the cultural reach — that legacy retailers built over generations?
Parachute had the product and the brand. What it needed was a press engine that could match retail expansion — covering store openings, designer drops, and seasonal moments without losing the bigger story of what a modern home brand looks like.
The challenge was running an always-on press office that could move at the speed of new-store launches and cultural moments simultaneously — while keeping a coherent narrative about why Parachute mattered to home, design, and business press.
We embedded with the team in 2016 and built an integrated program designed to compound. Strategic narrative work in business and design press created the credibility that retail openings could borrow from. Cultural moments fed back into the brand story. Every lane reinforced the next.
Founder Ariel Kaye in business and design press; brand vision, growth, and category leadership coverage as the steady backbone.
A press playbook for every new store opening, tuned to the local market and timed to drive traffic — 150+ regional placements across 26 launches.
KITH, Jake Arnold, le FLEUR*, Madewell. Every drop converted into editorial coverage — 14+ features for the 2020 Madewell collab alone.
Real-time press readiness. From the And Just Like That down-pillow moment to a Good Morning America segment on towels, screen time turned into sell-through.
KITH, Jake Arnold, le FLEUR*, Madewell. Each collaboration was treated as a press story in its own right — a way to put Parachute next to the cultural references that define modern home design.
The 2020 Madewell collaboration alone earned 14+ feature placements across home, fashion, and lifestyle press — building the kind of cross-category coverage you can't buy with paid media.
When Carrie's down pillow had its on-screen moment, JBC had Parachute in PEOPLE within hours. The feature drove a 30% lift in down-pillow sales — the kind of sell-through that only happens when the press office is ready before the cultural moment hits.
Press readiness before the moment lands. That's the difference between a trend report and traction at the register.
A selection of the moments and outlets that defined the partnership — home, design, business, and culture, in tandem.
Plus 6,000+ additional placements across home, design, business, and culture.
A great press office turns retail expansion into a story — and turns the story into traffic at every store opening.
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