Founded: 1984 Headquarters: Provo, Utah Top Executive: CEO Ritch Wood 2016 Revenue: $2.208 billion Global 100 Ranking: 11 Products: Beauty and Wellness Nu Skin Enterprises, the skincare and wellness company founded by Blake Roney, Sandie Tillotson and Steve Lund in 1984, has been able to consistently rank among the upper echelon of direct selling companies in the world because it has […]

Any great direct selling organization will tell you that the vision of its founder is the driving force behind its continued success. Think Mary Kay Ash. Or Doris Christopher. Or Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel. Three years after his passing, Harland C. Stonecipher’s pledge to provide middle-income Americans with a product that affords easy […]

Click here to order the September 2017 issue in which this article appeared. ZIJA INTERNATIONAL Founded: 2005 Headquarters: Lehi, Utah Top Executive: Ryan Palmer, President and CEO Products: health and wellness Ryan Palmer As it often is for serial entrepreneurs, Ken Brailsford’s retirement was temporary. Eight years after he closed the books on a 35-year network marketing career—during which he founded […]

  Le-VeL Brands Founded: 2012 Headquarters: Frisco, Texas Top Executives: Jason Camper and Paul Gravette, Co-Owners/Co-Founders and Co-CEOs 2016 Revenue: $449 million Global 100 Ranking: 44 Products: Nutritional/Health and Wellness Products Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Le-Vel Brands is the proverbial train barreling through the direct selling terrain as it picks up speed with new product offerings and a growing base of […]

When Jere Thompson Jr. and Chris Chambless founded Ambit Energy in 2006, they decided that, operationally, their enterprise was going to be a data processing company and not just an energy company. That concept has created a culture where employees do not just think about what customers and Consultants need; they think about how those […]

Twenty years of study on trace minerals had revealed a basic truth to biomedical research pioneer Dr. Joel Wallach: A deficiency in nutrients could, and would over time, greatly affect one’s physical well-being. With that knowledge in hand, the scientist identified a combination of 90 essential minerals, vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids that would […]