companyThe Profit · Season 7, Episode 10 · Aired February 11, 2020
LumillaMingus
Los Angeles, California
The trail goes cold here; we could not verify whether it is still open. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2020.
What happened after
Handmade leather handbag brand; most recent citable mention found dates to 2016. The lumillamingus.com domain resolves but returned no visible content on direct fetch (neither confirmable as active nor confirmable as parked).
What happened on the show
LumillaMingus grew out of one woman's drive to build her own handbag line, and while the episode credited her with a quality product, it judged the result bland and overpriced. Marcus's task was to help her become a more creative and more capable businessperson, sharpening both the product and the way she ran the company. It was a recognizable Profit setup, a founder with genuine craft whose output and pricing were out of step with what the market wanted. The work centered on pushing her design in a more distinctive direction, rethinking the pricing, and building the business skills a handmade goods brand needs to be more than a passion project. The quality of the leatherwork was not in question, which made the creativity and the commercial instincts the areas the episode set out to develop for her.
After the cameras left
We could not verify the company's status. The most recent citable mention we found dates to 2016, and while the lumillamingus.com domain resolves, it returned no visible content on a direct fetch, leaving it neither confirmable as active nor as parked. There is a possible lead worth flagging but not treating as proof, the founder also runs a separate everyday luxury jewelry and fragrance brand under a similar name, but the product category differs enough that we did not treat it as a confirmed successor. LumillaMingus ships as unverifiable pending a follow up check.
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