Archives for April 2014
At its annual board meeting held Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the Direct Selling Association (DSA) approved the nomination of several industry executives to its board of directors.
Cookie Lee left the corporate world in 1985 to found her eponymous jewelry company, Cookie Lee Inc. After nearly 23 years at the helm, Lee is handing over the California-based business to Debbie Millar, a founding partner of real estate group HÔM, which reported $1.4 billion in sales for 2013.
For boutique-style jewelry retailer Stella & Dot, the last couple years have focused on scaling operations to keep pace with rapid growth. Now, Founder Jessica Herrin is looking to expand the Stella & Dot family of brands and reach more customers in the U.S. and beyond.
Avon, Herbalife Ltd., Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.,Tupperware Brands Corp., LifeVantage Corp.,
Ancient Chinese herbalism transformed a scrawny Taiwanese youngster named Tei-Fu Chen into a more healthful young man, who eventually mixed his herbalist grandfather’s teachings with Western science and created Sunrider International.
Hitting $1 billion in revenue is a milestone for any business, and the DSN Global 100 list boasts a number of companies that have broken through this barrier. What is it that makes them so successful?
Plexus Worldwide may be the biggest company in the direct sales industry that you’ve never heard of. But Plexus executives don’t expect that to be the case for long: In the last two years, the company’s revenues more than quadrupled.
Foundation 4Life service projects focus on equipping disadvantaged individuals around the world with the tools they need to move beyond bare survival.
For our 2014 DSN Global 100 list, the information is still being processed, and the ranking is almost complete. In a few short weeks we will announce this year’s list during our annual banquet on April 23. It’s been an amazing year with amazing results—true indicators of the role direct selling opportunities have played in the lives of people during 2013.
Traditional supply chains, once only intended to be accessible internally, are coming out of the closet. Companies are being called on to offer complete visibility into their labor practices, energy consumption, waste and carbon emissions measurement, and water supply management.
When Herbalife announced March 12 that it was facing an FTC inquiry, the company said it welcomed the news given the tremendous amount of misinformation in the marketplace.
A company executive tells me they have a “GREAT rep.” He is killing it—making lots of money and bringing lots of people into the organization. Then, in the next sentence, the exec tells me the company just isn’t growing as they would like or have expected, and they can’t figure out why.