USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NYSE: USNA) recently announced financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended April 4, 2015. The Company also increased its financial outlook for 2015.For the first quarter of 2015, net sales increased by 20.3% to $219.4 million, compared with $182.4 million in the prior-year period.
The increase in net sales was driven by 41.9% growth in the number of active Associates, largely as a result of strong Associate growth in the Company’s Asia Pacific region. Net sales, on a comparative basis, were positively impacted by:
(i) continued momentum from the incentive program that the Company offered during the fourth quarter of 2014, which carried over for several weeks into the first quarter of 2015 in China, (ii) incremental sales that occurred ahead of price increases announced in China
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ASEA, an emerging global leader in cellular health, has just wrapped its fifth annual International Convention during which the company made several announcements.
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