BDNZ welcomes Triumph & Disaster to the site

When it comes to men’s skincare and grooming it appears that the bar has been raised. With Ultra-luxe scents, technologically advanced skin care products and a new focus on facial hair, the guy’s isle has never look so sophisticated.
Beards, barbers, brands and potions have proliferated to such an extent you could be forgiven for thinking we are in the middle of some kind of urban lumberjack apocalypse. But back in 2010 when the seed of an idea led a former NZ cricketer to cash in his cushy corporate gig and start a range of men’s skincare, the idea was not only novel but some would say risked a certain level of social suicide, so strong was the institutionalised idea that men don’t moisturise. That cricketer was Dion Nash and the brand has turned out to be , both seem to have proved that NZ men are groomers after all.

Today Triumph and Disaster is sold in over five hundred stores globally including some of the most fashionable retail outlets in the world, Selfridges, Paul Smith and the Conran Store in London, Nordstrom & Maxfield’s in the USA, KEDEWE in Berlin, Sephora in Australia and Smith & Caughey’s and the Department store in NZ to name a few. 

Nash says; ‘It’s always a great endorsement when a legendary store like Selfridges agrees to sell your products, but the two people who really helped us get going were Karen Walker from ‘The Department store’ and Lynda Grant at ‘Smith & Caughey’, virtually the first two stores to take us on in NZ, both were super intimidating and but both turned out to be so positive, we are forever grateful for their support’.

Triumph & Disaster’s journey launched in 2011 when they started selling online in NZ.  Humbly at first, just Dion with one staff member, five products and a small office upstairs at the Nash residence, Triumph & Disaster has come a long way. Now five years young and having banked an endless number of tradeshows, international flights, cold calls and hustle, Triumph & Disaster can say that every five minutes someone somewhere in the world buys a T&D product.

Triumph & Disaster has coined the phrase ‘derived from nature engineered with science’ to describe their products, Nash says, 'Making high performing products that are as natural as possible is important, we start from the premise that synthetic chemicals are bad for your health and the environment and totally unnecessary for your skin'. 

The ethos seems to be working, T&D recently won two product awards via the ‘Beauty Shortlist’, the largest and most influential independent UK Beauty site, along with the Export NZ Award for E-Commerce Exporter of the Year for 2016.n Nash puts this success down to great relationships with his suppliers and the chemists that assist in formulating T&D’s bespoke recipes and perhaps an awareness from his cricket days of the importance of building a strong team.

Their products are now available for high res download through BDNZ here.