Jonas af Jochnick, co-founder of Switzerland-based cosmetics giant Oriflame, has declined re-election and will step down from the board of directors after serving as a director since the founding of the company in 1967.
“After 50 years it is time for me to leave the Board and provide room for a new generation,” said Jochnick.
“In my view the entrepreneurial corporate culture of Oriflame is, and always has been, one of our key differentiators and part of the company’s DNA from the start.
I am confident it will live on for the years to come, and I am very pleased that my daughter, Anna af Jochnick, has been proposed as new Board Director.”
Anna af Jochnick has extensive company-specific and direct sales experience.
According to the company, she will bring shareholder and cultural focus to the board.
She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M), Major in Business Law from Lund University.
Her career includes Associate at Grönberg Advokatbyrå as well as several positions within Oriflame, including tax manager, area sales manager, and regional online implementation and business development manager for the Western European region.
Gunilla Rudebjer was also nominated to the board of directors. Rudebjer will bring extensive managerial, financial and accounting experience to the board.
She holds a
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Top Leader Malikah Murphy And Company Join Modere
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Modere is excited to announce the partnership of Dr. Malikah Murphy and her team. Dr. Murphy, a mother of four, brings with her over a decade of network marketing experience where she’s earned seven-figure incomes with several businesses she’s helped to build.
Dr. Murphy currently serves as CEO of her own health and wellness company. She’s knowledgeable in nutrition and the formulation of natural hair care products, which gives her a strong understanding of Modere’s clean-label products and how they can change lives.
Her story of success in the industry began when certain family illnesses required her to explore the idea of working from home.
“I just started calling people in the phone book,” Dr. Murphy said. “I had no idea what I was doing in the beginning.”
Since that time, Dr. Murphy has achieved the distinction of becoming a seven-figure earner in many of her companies. It was with one of her most recent organizations, though, where she earned her first million in just 18 months.
During this time, she had built an organization of over 80,000 customers and distributors.
Dr. Murphy saw remarkable success at the time, but noticed there seemed a lack of the integrity she was seeking. It was during this moment
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Top Leaders Jeff and Belinda Burnett Join Modere
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As they bring their unique brand of passion to Modere, Jeff and Belinda Burnett of Lubbock, Texas, USA are setting out to duplicate and even exceed what they built as top leaders with their previous company.
The Burnetts have a special heart to show the industry – and the world – that it’s possible to reach the highest echelons of success in this business, and still put marriage and family first.
“When we began building at our prior company, we didn’t know anything about the industry,” Jeff admits. “All we knew was that if we brought our 15 years of previous business experience with us, treated people with respect, and put all of our focus on helping others succeed, we would be successful.”
Indeed, within six short years, the Burnetts successfully achieved the highest rank in their previous company and earned more than $2 million.
But their greatest accomplishment? The numerous success stories they helped create within their organization. And it’s a priority that Jeff and Belinda bring to Modere as well.
“There are times in business when you make decisions for the good of your team and your family,”
said Jeff, when asked about the transition.
“We believe Modere is disrupting the industry with the
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Top Leader Tommy Wyatt Joins Legacy Direct
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Legacy Direct, a streaming media and technology company, has successfully entered into the network marketing arena.
Founded by CEO Christian Rosario, Legacy offers a variety of home entertainment tech products with its flagship product, the BTVi3.
The BTVi3 is the world’s premier streaming media device that allows you to stream live television, sports, movies, TV shows, international programming, and more directly through Wi-fi, without the need for a cable TV provider.
After acquiring 40,000 customers in its first two years through a Direct Sales model, Legacy brought in seven-figure network marketing star Tommy Wyatt to head up the field and shift exclusively to MLM.
“I’ve made a 20 year career in this profession, and never before have I seen an easier product to talk about,”
said Wyatt.
“I know every company says that, but people absolutely hate paying a cable bill, and the minute they see this device they want one. I believe we’re set for a run similar to the one Excel Communications made back when they deregulated the long distance telephone industry in the 90’s.”
Legacy manufactures all of its own products (including sound systems and ear buds), and also offers its own private broadcasting network called B-Vision.
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AdvoCare Appoints Brett Blake As CEO
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AdvoCare International, L.P. today announced the promotion of Brett Blake to Chief Executive Officer, replacing industry-veteran Brian Connolly who served as interim-CEO during the extensive executive search.
Connolly will continue to work closely with Brett serving as Executive Chairman of the Board.
Blake, who was hired in October to serve as President of Global Sales and Strategic Planning has demonstrated his commitment to the AdvoCare Brand and the 600,000 Independent Distributors and Preferred Customers.
Brett will continue to serve those functions in addition to the added responsibility of CEO. When asked to comment, Blake said
“I am grateful for the confidence the Ragus family, Brian Connolly and the Board of Directors has in me.
I am so impressed with the caliber of people associated with AdvoCare and am looking forward to leading this company to even greater success as we look to secure our business in the U.S. and expand globally.”
Blake will continue to oversee global sales and strategic planning in his new role as CEO. Prior to joining AdvoCare Blake served as CEO of Origami Owl Family of Brands, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Beachbody – where he also sat on the Board – and other management roles at Melaleuca, USANA
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Ron Sacka Appointed Director Of Corporate Operations Vida Divina
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Vida Divina, a global direct marketer of nutritional and healthy lifestyle products, announced today that Ron Sacka has been appointed as Director of Corporate Operations.
With the massive growth Vida Divina has endured with over 500,000 affiliates in 2017, Armand Puyolt, CEO of Vida Divina, is seeking out to bring in a great, well-known corporate team to strengthen Vida Divina’s position growth in 2018.
Ron Sacka is only the first of many to be drafted into the Vida Divina Corporate Team.
Ron Sacka brings 20 years of direct sales, network marketing and executive operations experience to Vida Divina. Ron has extensive experience as a network marketer where he has built teams of over 50,000 distributors and was a documented seven figure earner with Morinda.
Over the last five years, Ron has switched his focus to executive and consulting side of the Direct Sales Industry with much success.
Mr. Sacka is known as “a numbers guy” in network marketing, priding himself on truly understanding the industry from a strategic financial prospective. However, it wasn’t until he was the CEO of a Network Marketing company that he understood the importance of a great corporate management side of the industry.
Ron states,
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Young Living Names Ben Riley Chief Sales Officer
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After helping guide Young Living Essential Oils, the world leader in essential oils, to continued record-breaking sales each of the last two years, Ben Riley has been promoted to Chief Sales Officer, the company announced today.
“Since joining Young Living, Ben has demonstrated his leadership through successful and consistent sales and direct selling strategies for the company,”
said Jared Turner, Young Living President and Chief Operating Officer.
“Ben has an extraordinary ability to build strong relationships with our members and find innovative ways to continue to expand and grow Young Living’s business worldwide.”
He has played a key role in helping Young Living expand on a global level, overseeing the business grow by over 30 percent with significant increases in every region. The company has also seen a 30-percent increase in new customers over the last year.
Riley joined Young Living in 2016 to oversee global sales and immediately began making a significant impact. As Regional President of North America, Riley developed and integrated sales strategies, oversaw field leadership support, and ensured the success of Young Living’s field leaders across the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining Young Living, Riley held several positions including Vice President of Leadership at Cloudberry Nutritionals and Vice President
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Youngevity Completes Acquisition Of Viaviente
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Youngevity International, Inc., a leading omni-direct lifestyle company, today announced the acquisition of ViaViente, distributors of The ViaViente Miracle, a highly-concentrated, energizing whole fruit puree blend that is rich in Anti-Oxidants and naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals.
ViaViente, was introduced to the public in 2003 following years of research that included studies of mineral rich waters whose source is found in the Andes Mountains and flow thru Vilcabamba, Ecuador, a region known for its high concentration of centenarians. In 2007 ViaViente became the first product in the market to receive the coveted Brunswick Labs ORAC Seal of Certification for its Anti-Oxidant content.
“ViaViente is a welcome addition to Youngevity’s family of products and embodies our philosophy that nutrition can change the way a person ages.”
Stated Dave Briskie, President and CFO of Youngevity International, Inc. “
Over the last two quarters, as our international footprint has begun to take hold, we sought to acquire companies whose distribution would be accretive to the integration of this international expansion.
Similar to our recent acquisition of Nature Direct in Australia, ViaViente certainly checked these and other boxes, since more than seventy-five per cent of their recent distribution is to Japan We feel very fortunate to be able
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World Global Network Announces Key Organisational Changes
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Wor(l)d Global Network (WGN) today announces a reorganization within its Global Sales & Marketing operations.
Douglas C. Robinson has been hired as WGNs Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Robinson joins WGN from Mednua Corp, where he was CEO.
Coincident with this new appointment, Antonio De Rosa will move to World Technology Corp as its Senior Vice President of Design & Branding, allowing him to dedicate his focus and efforts on the design of Wor(l)d’s amazing product line as well as managing Wor(l)d branding worldwide.
Mr. Robinson’s 30+ year career has been spent almost entirely in the healthcare sector. He has held senior strategic healthcare consulting and practice management roles with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Consulting, as well as senior operational roles within United Health Group.
More recently, over the course of the last 12 years, he has been CEO of three different companies, WorkWell Systems, Inc., LifeVantage Corporation and Mednua Corp.
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ARIIX And NuCerity Merge
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On March 5, 2018, ARIIX, an international opportunity company that promotes healthy, toxin-free living announced its merger with NuCerity, a Houston, Texas-based network marketing company.
This partnership formed due to different market strengths and the opportunity those strengths presented for the representatives, along with strong projected sales figures.
ARIIX’s 2017 year-end sales were $178 million USD, an 18% increase over the previous year.
NuCerity’s 2017 year-end sales were $35 million. Thirty-thousand NuCerity representatives will be unified with the current ARIIX representative base through this merger.
With the combined revenue and sales efforts from this partnership, the healthy and stable projected sales for 2018 year-end are $300 million USD.
“This is a strong union for both ARIIX and NuCerity,”
says Fred Cooper, ARIIX CEO and Founder.
“Both companies have incredibly strong markets where the other does not, as well as high-quality products which complement each other seamlessly.
Our representatives and employees will undoubtedly be able to grow with and learn from each other, and I can already see strong teams forming which include both NuCerity and ARIIX entrepreneurs.”
NuCerity creates clinically tested and dermatologist recommended skin care products, which aligns with the six brands ARIIX currently produces.
The NuCerity products will be brought under the ARIIX House of Brands and