June 3, 2019
Author Steve Jamieson is the Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of WorkingSocial, offering innovate and transformational business, sales, marketing and digital strategies to network marketing companies at every stage of success. Steve has a 20+ year career in direct sales that included working as the CEO at three prominent network marketing companies and as […]
Read MoreMay 27, 2019
Jeffrey A. Babener, of Portland, Oregon, is the principal attorney in the law firm of Babener & Associates. For more than 30 years, he has advised leading U.S. and foreign companies in the direct selling industry, including many members of the U.S. Direct Selling Association. He has served as legal advisor to various major direct selling companies, […]
Read MoreMay 13, 2019
This quarterly analysis focuses on the seven largest public direct sellers. The period covering the first three months was generally not so good for this group of companies. Only one company reported a solid growth. Two of them came up with almost flat performances, but the remaining four announced quite negative numbers. AVON Avon’s global […]
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2019
As we have their 2018 4Q reports at hand, the time has come to take a look at how the industry’s major players did last quarter and eventually, closed the year. The review focuses on the largest seven publicly-owned direct sellers: Avon, Herbalife, Natura, Nu Skin, Oriflame, Tupperware and USANA. AVON Avon’s total revenue in […]
Read MoreNovember 12, 2018
Having received the quarterly results, we can now review and compare companies’ growth performances as of end-third quarter. We also now have a better idea as to how these direct selling giants will close this year. This analysis will focus on the public direct selling companies, Avon, Herbalife, Natura, Nu Skin, Oriflame, Tupperware and USANA, […]
Read MoreNovember 5, 2018
Mark Hughes was born in 1956, in California. Mark began living with his mother after his parents divorced when he was 14. His mother at the time was fighting with obesity and was heavily on various pills. Mark dropped out of school in the ninth grade. He started using drugs. “I was a little delinquent. I […]
Read MoreAugust 13, 2018
This article is a review of the first-half 2018 performances of seven major public direct selling companies from a revenue growth perspective. You will see there were both impressive and unsatisfactory performances in the second quarter. AVON Avon’s second quarter global revenue was down 3% from last year previous quarter ($1.352 b vs. $1.396 b). […]
Read MoreMay 14, 2018
Having received their first quarter reports, the time has come to review how the industry’s giants did in the first three months. The analysis covers the seven largest public (e.g. whose shares are traded on the stock exchanges) direct sellers: Avon, Herbalife, Natura, Nu Skin, Oriflame, Tupperware, and USANA. Once again, the article will […]
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2018
This week’s article will be a review of six of the largest public direct sales companies’ 2017 growth figures. Although they cannot represent the whole global industry, how these “biggies” have been doing surely gives an idea: AVON Avon’s Q4 2017 sales was at par with its previous year same period sales: Approximately $1.6 billion. […]
Read MoreDecember 4, 2017
Guest author Jeffrey A. Babener, of Portland, Oregon, is the principal attorney in the law firm of Babener & Associates. For more than 30 years, he has advised leading U.S. and foreign companies in the direct selling industry, including many members of the U.S. Direct Selling Association. He has served as legal advisor to various major direct selling […]
Read MoreNovember 27, 2017
Last week we covered seven of the largest direct selling firms’ third quarter performances from a growth perspective. This time, we will be looking into how they did in costs and consequently, in profits. Before going into individual company numbers, a few general observations: * All seven companies report profits for the third quarter. All […]
Read MoreNovember 20, 2017
Having received their periodical financial reports, we now have the opportunity to review companies’ growth performances as of end-third quarter. We also now have a better idea as to how some of the giants will close the year. This analysis will focus on the public direct selling companies, Avon, Herbalife, Natura, Nu Skin, Oriflame, Tupperware, […]
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