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Natural Health Trends Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results

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Natural Health Trends Corp. (NASDAQ: NHTC), a leading direct-selling and e-commerce company that markets premium quality personal care, wellness and “quality of life” products under the NHT Global brand, announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
Second Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights
*       Revenue of $9.8 million decreased 6% compared to $10.5 million in the second quarter of 2024.
*       Operating loss was $333,000 compared to $238,000 in the second quarter of 2024.
*       Net income was $15,000, or breakeven per diluted share, compared to $173,000, or $0.02 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2024.
*       The number of Active Members was 29,260 at June 30, 2025 compared to 30,870 at December 31, 2024 and 31,110 at June 30, 2024.
Management Commentary

“Our second quarter sales reflected the heightened economic uncertainty caused by evolving trade tensions, which we expect will continue to heavily weigh on consumer sentiment in our biggest market,”

commented Chris Sharng, President of Natural Health Trends Corp.
Mr. Sharng continued,

“To mitigate tariff-related risks, we are realigning our supply chain by transitioning production to trusted manufacturing partners in Asia, bringing operations closer to our core markets and enhancing long-term resilience.”

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QNET Commits To Delivering A World-Class E-Commerce Platform

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As e-commerce sees accelerated growth for retail industries (Shopify reported that global commerce sales are expected to reach US$5 trillion in 2022!), companies like Hong Kong-based direct selling company QNET, are ready to reap the rewards.
QNET, an e-commerce direct selling company, is no stranger to the online scene. Established over two decades ago, the multinational company was one of the first in the direct selling industry to embrace digitisation – adopting an e-commerce platform as part of its strategy – charting rapid growth across borders.
Today, QNET is an industry leader with customers in nearly 100 countries, bearing numerous awards for its digital excellence, online communications campaigns, and mobile app. And the company’s lightspeed success is no coincidence: QNET is a company that believes in giving its employees, distributors, and customers the best online experience imaginable – and that starts by establishing a world-class e-commerce platform.
ENHANCING THE E-COMMERCE EXPERIENCE
In partnership with Microsoft, QNET switched to an end-to-end strategy built on Microsoft Security products and services, such as utilising cloud security through Microsoft Azure. QNET’s Chief Information Security Officer, Egal Egal, says,
“With the amount of data accessed, utilised, and shared across our global offices, it makes perfect sense to team up with

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The EU VAT e-commerce package: how accounting can help

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Originally written by Dan Matthews on Small Business
On 1 July, the European Union will change the way in which VAT is reported and paid, potentially impacting anyone in the UK operating a business selling products & services online to consumers and practicing distance selling.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a big shift in working patterns and, as a result, a lot of people have out of necessity or opportunity taken to start up an e-commerce business or switch to digital selling,”
“The change to EU VAT reporting will help. It’s designed to simplify tax reporting, promote ecommerce and increase online cross-border transactions. It will support small business and remove barriers in a post-Brexit environment.” says Asif Chaudhry, Director, Product Marketing at Sage.
What will change?
The changes are that for sales to consumers (basically anyone without a VAT registration) the VAT is charged based on which country the customer is in, not the country of the seller. Prior to this date there were thresholds, and businesses selling below these thresholds could charge their home VAT rates which avoided needing to know many different VAT rates.
Alongside this change the EU is expanding their one stop shop (OSS) simplifications which optionally allow businesses outside of the

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Forward Advances wants to lend £250m to small businesses by 2023

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Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
Forward Advances, the merchant cash advance provider, wants to provide £250m worth of cash to small businesses in the e-commerce space by 2023.
The lender, which set up in April 2020, is one of a new wave of small business funders base lending decisions based how much you are selling each month. In recent months Clearbanc and eBay have both launched their own versions of what’s known as merchant cash advance in Britain, while PayPal has been offering it for some time.
By tying its technology to your bank data, accounting software or social media ad accounts, a lender has a real-time view of your monthly income. This means repayments fluctuate as a percentage of income, rather than being a fixed amount each month like a bank.
>See also: One third of small businesses turn to Bank of Mum and Dad
Although well-established in America and in Sweden, where the concept originated, merchant cash advances are still a relatively new concept in Britain.
Hasam Silva, managing director of Forward Advances, said: “In the US merchant cash advance or revenue-based financing is a well-understood product but, in the UK, less so. Half of all founders I spoke to last

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Forward Advances wants to lend £250m to small businesses by 2023

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Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
Forward Advances, the merchant cash advance provider, wants to provide £250m worth of cash to small businesses in the e-commerce space by 2023.
The lender, which set up in April 2020, is one of a new wave of small business funders base lending decisions based how much you are selling each month. In recent months Clearbanc and eBay have both launched their own versions of what’s known as merchant cash advance in Britain, while PayPal has been offering it for some time.
By tying its technology to your bank data, accounting software or social media ad accounts, a lender has a real-time view of your monthly income. This means repayments fluctuate as a percentage of income, rather than being a fixed amount each month like a bank.
>See also: One third of small businesses turn to Bank of Mum and Dad
Although well-established in America and in Sweden, where the concept originated, merchant cash advances are still a relatively new concept in Britain.
Hasam Silva, managing director of Forward Advances, said: “In the US merchant cash advance or revenue-based financing is a well-understood product but, in the UK, less so. Half of all founders I spoke to last

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