Direct Selling Australia (DSA) and Direct Selling New Zealand (DSNZ) announced a formal agreement that official forms a new structure for the entities, with DSA providing support services for DSNZ. With this agreement, DSNZ will now operate with a newly appointed board of directors that is supported by DSA through shared administration, resources and member services.

As part of this year’s DSU Europe event, I was privileged to co-host the DSA Associations Summit with my counterparts from France, the United Kingdom and the US. We dubbed it the “Grand Slam Workshop,” an apt name for an afternoon that brought together approximately 30 DSA CEOs and Association board members from across the globe.

Our current cover story A World in Motion takes an in-depth look at the current state of direct selling across the globe. We utilized the latest World Federation of Direct Selling’s Global Statistical Data Report as well as insights provided from Direct Selling Associations around the world. We are incredibly grateful for the candor and thoughtfulness of the responses we received. While we couldn’t include the totality of their insights in the article, we wanted to make sure we provided access to this valuable information to our readers. So, we’ve shared their full comments as an online exclusive.