Direct Selling News celebrated the DSN Global 100 ranking on April 3 at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas, with a dinner and awards ceremony. The event marked the fourth consecutive year that DSN has recognized the achievements of the global direct selling leaders.

Gary Raser has his eye on “the 96 percent,” the huge majority of people who have never been in the direct selling industry. And he’s reaching them.

When Youngevity Essential Life Sciences and Javalution Coffee Co. merged to form AL International in 2011, the executives assumed they were in for some surprises. But the biggest surprise of all was how smoothly everything dovetailed together.

The direct selling industry is home to some of the most generous people on the planet. From distributors all the way up to the founders of the industry’s largest companies, direct selling attracts people who define their success by what they can do for others.

Since 2004 Direct Selling News has been dedicated to telling stories focused on relating the opportunities direct sellers provide to millions of independent business owners around the globe.

In early 2006, two Dallas natives began talking to their friends about ways to capitalize on the growing opportunities presented by energy deregulation in Texas.