According to News.com.au an Australian based magazine, Thermomix a Vorwerk company is sued by a former distributor.
News.com.au:
THE $2089 Thermomix calls itself “the most advanced appliance on the market” and has thousands of zealous fans, but the cult kitchen brand is at the centre of a bitter, emotional legal battle with a “traumatised” former contractor.
The high tech food processor is supposed to make life easier, yet in the past two years the company has been accused of causing third degree burns, encouraging a toxic bullying culture and failing to be honest with its customers.
Now former contractor Elisabeth Higgins, 56, from Perth, is suing Thermomix Australia in the District Court of WA. She claims Thermomix took away her business and failed to compensate her, and wants them to pay her lost earnings of
Tag Archive for Germany
Hot Business News Today
PM International Sales up 30% to $460 Million in 2016
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Germany based netwok marketing company PM International reports $460 million in sales for 2016, up 30% from $350 million in 2015.
“Chapeau! You have done a great job in 2016, “said PM founder and CEO Rolf Sorg at the KICK OFF enthusiastically about the positive development of PM-International AG.
“Great praise to the sales department and its leaders, but also to all who are doing their best day after day – a real team performance”. 460 million US dollar sales within the PM group, Italy and Hong Kong with growth figures above 100 percent, Norway with 83 percent, the new D drink sold out in all countries shortly after the launch, the CC-Cel set with 723 percent more Sale as in 2015 – PM-International is currently not stop.
The attendance figures for the
Hot Business News Today
Germany’s Top Direct Selling Company LR Health And Beauty In Decline
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
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
Hot Business News Today
Buyezee Announces Its First 5 Star Qualified Leader In Germany
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Just 5 months after joining in April, the first German leader has reached the 5 Star Rank Level in the Buyezee Compensation Plan.
Daniela C. Szasz, CEO of Buyezee commented:
“We are so pleased with the expansion we are seeing in Europe, especially Germany.
As we continue to generate interest in new countries, we are holding our first Greek webinar and training sessions this week. We have about 5 other countries in the pipeline.”
We especially love seeing our leaders, just like our first 5 Star, achieve their milestones so early in their Buyezee career. Seeing everyone growing within their teams and setting their own goals for success makes us really proud and happy for them. Congratulations to all those that are heading towards fulfilling their dreams!
ABOUT BUYEZEE™
A global provider of fully serviced eCommerce shops
Hot Business News Today
Buyezee Adds Further 3 Million Products into Store
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Buyezee, a global provider of fully serviced eCommerce shops, have formed new partnerships with multiple online merchants, adding new products totalling more than 3 million to their German store alone – across multiple verticals.
As the total number of listed products from their “in house” database surpasses the 40 million mark, search results still combine all of the products available in Amazon.de and Ebay.de inventories, meaning that Buyezee is confident that consumers will be dazzled by the range of products and prices available through their shopping comparison portal.
Antony Spear – Buyezee CTO stated,
“As our Shop Owner stores grow in popularity (over 1,000% in the last 3 months), we continually receive enquiries from online retailers, requesting that we represent their inventory in our product database”.
This comes only 10 days after their flights search engine
Hot Business News Today
Zinzino Starts Operations In Germany
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Sweden based Zinzino, one of the world’s leading direct sales companies in functional food and coffee, continues to grow throughout Europe and is now establishing operations in Germany – Europe’s largest direct sales market.
Zinzino has experienced rapid geographical growth concentrating on Europe and North America. At the end of 2015, Zinzino began operations in Canada following a successful period on the US market.
The company has directed its focus towards preparing the business for its continued advancement, allying geographical expansion with product development.
The acquisitions of Faun Pharma AS and BioActive Foods AS means that Zinzino now controls the entire chain from research and development to production and analysis. This results in lower costs and greater control, which creates positive synergies throughout the entire chain up to the end consumer.
“Germany will be
Hot Business News Today
Buyezee Launches Impartial Comparison Shopping Engine
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Buyezee an E-Commerce service company with an Uni-Level compensation plan has strong interest from the Direct Selling Industry.
The company, based in Delaware, USA said that:
“Our introduction of the totally non-biased, free-to-use tool has marked the beginning of increased confidence in shopping comparison.”
Their consumers search hundreds of millions of products, from tens of thousands of online merchants to find any product; with the service automatically sorting the result by price. A seemingly difficult task in the modern day online hyper-economy.
Initially launching in 11 countries worldwide (USA, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, Thailand), their powerful search service allows shoppers to find the same product in multiple countries simultaneously, enabling them to instantly compare prices internationally.
A very timely service, given the rise in popularity of forward shipping to
Hot Business News Today
The Success Story Of Vorwerk’s Thermomix
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
Germany’s Waz newspaper explores the Thermomix success story and tries to understand what makes this food processor so successful.
Thermomix by Vorwerk is an incredible German success story. In addition to a food processor, the customer also gets a piece of security with him.
“Madness!” “Incredible!” Whoever attends a presentation of the Thermomix inevitably feels transported back to the time of the economic miracle when arduous, long daily tasks could suddenly be completed in a few simple steps. A time when the vacuum cleaner or blender looked like small miracles. Some sociologists say that machines played a significant role in the women’s empowerment movement. Listening to all this talk about the Thermomix you would think future scientists would award it a similarly important role in history.
The Thermomix can heat, mix, knead, beat, steam and
Hot Business News Today
Seacret Direct Expands To Germany
by Tina Williams • • 0 Comments
As Seacret gets ready for the international event in Phoenix, Arizona with keynote speaker John C. Maxwell, they are also doing double duty as they prepare to expand to Germany. Annoucements were recently made on their fan page as Seacret continues their international expansion efforts.
Betty Perez, VP of Sales and Training and Co-Founder says, “Just got off the phone with Mr. ?John C Maxwell?. We were discussing His piece at ?IGNITE?- and trust, his message is going to be POWERFUL. He said he is honored and delighted to be with the SEACRET community this September. If you don’t know him I recommend you pick up one of his books now! For those of you who have read his books, then you know how life-changing his message will be at #IGNITE. I’m excited to see you
Hot Business News Today
LR Health And Beauty $228 Million In Sales
by Ted Nuyten • • 0 Comments
Germany based LR Health & Beauty Systems GmbH (LR), one of the leading suppliers of premium health and beauty products in direct sales, looks back on a successful 2014 with good results.
“With the intensification of our international activities, we will have to face external factors ahead of us with strong internal potential, more flexibility and higher efficiency. In everything we do, we can trust on the support of our approx. 1,100 highly motivated and qualified employees”
International markets: Significant growth in local currency, strong impact of currency effects
In view of the positive development in 2014, Patrick Sostmann, Spokesman of Board of LR, sees a lot of good signs for the future. “In 2014, LR was again able to sustain its growth in local currency and recorded a significant increase in sales at constant