According to Internet Retailer’s annual Top 500 Guide to the web, Amway Global is ranked first in the Health & Beauty category for the seventh consecutive year, and 27^th in overall web sales. Amway Global is the North American affiliate of Amway Corp., a worldwide leader in direct selling, with more than three million IBOs in more than 80 countries and territories. Amway Global’s Top 500 Guide ranking is based on estimates made by Internet Retailer, since Amway Corp. does not report sales by individual market. Enterprise-wide sales for Amway Corp. were $8.4 billion in 2009. 

UK - two letters, that stand for a former empire in which the sun never set, that you might associate with the great artistic and intellectual achievements of the Elizabethan age and its most notable figure William Shakespeare as well as the epochal change known as the Industrial Revolution that exported the most significant inventions around the globe; glorious periods that will last for centuries in so many ways. Nor must we forget the language which is spoken globally – that in other words is beyond comparison to any other language in the world – is this why we use the term Great Britain when talking about the United Kingdom?

The company LR Health & Beauty Systems GmBH (LR) from Ahlen and its CEO Dr. Jens Abend at the end of March applied for a preliminary injunction against Netcoo Publishing International Ltd. (Netcoo) and its CEO at the Münster Regional Court. The trigger for the injunction was Netcoo’s online reporting and interview about a previous injunction served against the company by the Münster court on 26 March 2010.  The satirical feature on the “gagging order” against LR was complemented by an image depicting LR’s CEO as wearing muzzle. LR sent six different restraining orders, which Netcoo rejected.

WellStar International presented product and marketing innovations at the European Leadership Convention in Munich on the 20th-21st of March, triggering a storm of enthusiasm among the many thousands of participants. The World Launch of Webstar Mobile was announced for the event. With this news WellStar CEO Christian Wiesner toured Europe personally in the last weeks turning on the expectations of the partner at the various kick-offs in Italy, Germany and Hungary. What became clear after the opening, left the participants coming from ten European countries in astonishment: at the beginning Ali Jason Bazooband, General Manager Europe von WellStar, outlined with an impressive speech where WellStar should go and which role Webstar will play.

The highest bonus check paid to an Herbalife independent distributor tonight was $2 million, at a celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary in Orlando, Fla. In total, a record $36.5 million was paid to leading independent distributors from 29 countries who were among the 3,500 attending a four-day celebration.

“We have the best compensation plan in the direct-selling industry - you just don’t see these kinds of numbers being paid out by other direct-selling companies,” said Herbalife Chairman and CEO Michael O. Johnson. “Herbalife was a pioneer 30 years ago when it introduced its protein shake and marketing plan, and since then, the rest of the world has realized the cascading benefits of healthy nutrition and of offering people an entrepreneurial opportunity.”

According to a letter sent out to his faculty members iLearningGlobal announced sweeping changes concerning its sales strategies. With openly disappointment regarding the development of marketing their products, the company told its business partners that the direct selling channel will be shut down, because the sometimes negative stigma associated with network marketing has prevented many marketers from offering iLearningGlobal to their databases or to their corporate contacts.

One and a half year ago, the company started with the goal to take transformational training and development to the world by offering programs with internationally sought after Top-Trainers like for instance Brian Tracy, Bill Bratmann, Bob Proctor (The Secret), Marc Victor Hansen and many others. But it was both the personal development as well as the the rewarded recommendation of the training programs to other potential clients as an independent marketer was of interest.