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Tag Archives: Oriflame


2017 in Growth Numbers: Avon, Herbalife, Nu Skin, Oriflame, Tupperware, USANA

February 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 […]

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Those That Have Made a Huge Impact on the Industry, Part 2

February 5, 2018

Since the beginnings of organized direct selling, many entrepreneurs have left their footprints for others to follow. Among them, there are those who are still strong inspirations with what they had achieved. Following the five pioneers we covered last week, this week’s article features another group of persons of wisdom. Brownie Wise (1913-1992) “The brain […]

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Year in Review: Direct Selling’s 2017 in the News

January 1, 2018

This week’s article includes highlights from the industry news as they appeared on The WDS newsletter throughout 2017. As you scroll down, I am sure you will agree with me that it was most certainly another exciting year for the industry with all the positives and the negatives. Below is a compilation of news pieces […]

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Third Quarter in 7 Companies’ Profit Figures

November 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 […]

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Third Quarter in 7 Companies’ Sales Figures

November 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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Celebrity Endorsements in Direct Selling

October 30, 2017

People’s “fame” has been used for a very long time as a marketing tool to create associations with brands. Such endorsements have proved themselves to be effective in building credibility towards a product. Depending on the company’s overall strategy and on that specific product, the endorsing personality can be a movie star, musician, model, athlete […]

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Oriflame’s Successful Comeback?

September 11, 2017

In an article I wrote back in October 2016 I was discussing if Oriflame was back on track. The reason was that after a period of unsatisfactory results between the years 2010-2016, Oriflame had reported quite positive figures for the second quarter of 2016. As a background information, with an annual sales of EUR 1.2 billion […]

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The First Quarter of 2017 in Growth Figures

May 29, 2017

Following the end of the first quarter, it is now the time to review the performances of some of the largest direct selling companies. This analysis so far has covered Avon, Herbalife, Natura, Nu Skin, Oriflame and Tupperware, the largest public direct sellers. This time, USANA has been added after its year-end report announcing it […]

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Revenues, Costs and Profits

April 3, 2017

Few weeks ago we saw how the industry giants ended 2016 from a growth perspective. This time we will review their and also several others’ year-end cost structures and profits. We will be covering 11 public direct selling companies of various sizes and with different product portfolios: Avon, Herbalife, Mannatech, Natura, Nature’s Sunshine Products, NHT Global, […]

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2016 Growth Performances of Companies – 2

March 6, 2017

This second part of our 2016 review will cover Nu Skin, Oriflame, Tupperware and Amway. With their last year’s 4Q reports at hand, last week we started looking at how the industry’s major players did last quarter and eventually, closed the year. For last week’s article that reviewed  Avon, Herbalife and Natura, please click here. […]

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