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Germany’s Top Direct Selling Company LR Health And Beauty In Decline

 
According to an article in Netcoo News, Germany’s leading Direct Selling Magazine, LR Health and Beauty (LR) is in trouble.
It is, or was, one of Germany’s largest Direct Selling companies with an annual revenue of $250 million.
As Business For Home has pointed out in this article: Direct Selling Field CEO or Ivory Tower CEO –  If a CEO has NO Field experience, changes he/she will bring the company and distributors much growth is not big….
To be at the helmet of a Network Marketing company can not be learned in Business School.
Field experience…. been in the trenches… did the tough job….
Who make or break a Network Marketing company?
Distributors and customers, not accountants. Focus on share holder value and forget your distributors? Fast lane to decline.
Netcoo magazine:
“But what is missing what obviously

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Damaging Blow: Avon Falls Off S&P 500 For First Time Since 1964

 
After a more than fifty-year stay in the index, Avon won’t be in it for much longer.
S&P Dow Jones Indices, the company that manages the S&P 500, announced on Friday that the troubled cosmetics giant will be moved to its MidCap 400 index after the close of trading on March 20.
The S&P 500, which many average and professional investors use as their main benchmark to judge stock market performance, is home to mostly larger companies.
Avon (AVP) is now worth only $3.2 billion. It’s being replaced by underwear and T-shirt makerHanesbrands (HBI), which has a market value of more than $13 billion.
In its statement, S&P Dow Jones Indices said the change was made because Avon was no longer big enough.
A spokesman for S&P Dow Jones Indices added that Avon has been in the S&P 500 since

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