Browse direct sales, network marketing and work-from-home news from October 2026.
ADA, Michigan - October 23, 2026 Amway is widening its research relationship with the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, adding metabolic health, cognition and the role of antioxidants in cellular health to a collaboration that until now has centered on gut health and healthy aging, the Ada, Michiga...
Read full storyGUADALAJARA, Mexico - October 22, 2026 Tupperware's Latin American direct-selling business delivered its first full quarter under new ownership with double-digit growth in its core channel, according to third-quarter results released Thursday by BeFra, the Mexican group whose legal name is Betterware de México, whi...
Read full storySCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland - October 23, 2026 Oriflame's sales fell by nearly a quarter in the third quarter and its active community of consultants and customers shrank by more than a quarter, and the Swedish-founded beauty company warned in its latest interim report that it expects to need additional funding that h...
Read full storyMcKINNEY, Texas - October 21, 2026 American Income Life's sales force shrank in the third quarter, according to results released Wednesday by parent company Globe Life Inc. The division, which sells life and supplemental health insurance through its own exclusive agents, averaged 11,331 producing agents in the quart...
Read full storySEJONG, South Korea - October 21, 2026 South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has opened consent decision proceedings for Unicity Korea, the Korean arm of Utah-based network marketing company Unicity International, over allegations that the company sidestepped the country's legal cap on distributor commissions by havin...
Read full storyHYDERABAD, India - October 17, 2026 Police in Hyderabad have arrested a senior QNET promoter at New Delhi's international airport as he was allegedly trying to leave India for Dubai, the latest arrest in a long-running Indian investigation into the multi-level marketing company and its Indian affiliate, Vihaan Direc...
Read full storyLOS ANGELES, California - October 19, 2026 eXp Realty, its parent company AGNT, Inc., and founder Glenn Sanford have reached a confidential settlement with Anya Roberts, the eXp agent whose federal lawsuit accused two former eXp agents of drugging and sexually assaulting her at company recruiting events and claimed ...
Read full storyFLOWER MOUND, Texas - October 14, 2026 Mannatech, Incorporated says it believes it has regained compliance with the Nasdaq Capital Market's minimum stockholders' equity requirement, three days before the end of the 180-day cure period it had asked for, after reorganizing how the company owns its Swiss holding subsid...
Read full storySEATTLE, Washington - October 13, 2026 A federal judge has signed and entered the $225 million settlement between Amway Corp., two of its largest recruiting affiliates, the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Washington, turning the proposed deal announced last month into a binding court order and starting the...
Read full storyHYDERABAD, Telangana -- October 9, 2026 The Telangana High Court in India has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation not to take any coercive steps against two directors of Vihaan Direct Selling India Pvt Ltd, a company linked to QNET, in a case arising from the alleged suicide of a man from Siddipet. Justice ...
Read full storyATLANTA, Georgia - October 14, 2026 The Court of Appeals of Georgia has vacated an emergency injunction that Primerica won last December against Osaic Wealth, Inc. and a West Virginia advisory firm it accuses of raiding one of its branch offices. The appeals court sent the case back to the trial judge to explain two...
Read full storySCOTTSDALE, Arizona - October 13, 2026 Plexus Worldwide has joined the External Partners Program of the Personalized Nutrition Initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Scottsdale-based direct seller announced Tuesday. As part of the arrangement, Dr. Ren-Hau Lai, Plexus's vice president of produ...
Read full storyArbonne International has been served with a formal notice alleging that four of its protein shake products sold in California contain lead, and in one case cadmium, without the warnings required under the state's Proposition 65 law. The 60-day notice of violation, dated October 13, 2026, was sent by Environmental R...
Read full storyGRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - October 12, 2026 Amway has named George Aquino president of Amway Hotel Corporation (AHC), the hospitality management company that runs the direct seller's hotel and restaurant holdings. The appointment took effect October 12, 2026. Aquino succeeds Rick Winn, who has led AHC since 2013. Winn...
Read full storyThe Federal Trade Commission is sending a second round of refund payments to former AdvoCare distributors who lost money in what the agency alleged was an illegal pyramid scheme. According to the FTC, 170,571 payments totaling more than $11.4 million are going out to people who accepted a payment in the first round....
Read full storyBELLINGHAM, Wash. - October 8, 2026 AGNT, Inc., the Nasdaq-listed parent of eXp Realty, has named eXp Realty Chief Executive Officer Leo Pareja as its new CEO, effective October 8. He succeeds founder Glenn Sanford, who started the company in 2009 and will remain chairman of the board. According to the company's For...
Read full storyWINONA, Minn. - October 2, 2026 The Watkins Company has completed its acquisition of the spice business of Sauer Brands, Inc., adding the Kernel Season's, Spice Hunter and Sauer's spice and seasoning brands to the Winona, Minnesota, company's portfolio. The deal also brings over Sauer Brands' spice-related foodservi...
Read full storyGREENSBORO, N.C. - October 5, 2026 Market America Worldwide has sold the SHOP.COM domain name to Shopify, ending the network-marketing company's 15-year ownership of one of e-commerce's best-known web addresses. The company reissued its announcement on October 5 under the corrected headline "Market America Sells SHO...
Read full storyGOTHENBURG, Sweden -- October 5, 2026 Zinzino published a preliminary sales report showing group revenue for the third quarter of 2026 of 928.2 million Swedish kronor, up 18 percent from 784.1 million kronor a year earlier. Revenue from Zinzino sales markets rose 18 percent to 917.3 million kronor from 774.8 million...
Read full storyWould-be independent travel agents recruited through PlanNet Marketing into InteleTravel say sign-up costs and monthly fees left many of them making little or no profit, according to accounts from people who joined the U.S.-based booking platform. Influencers and celebrities have promoted PlanNet Marketing, which en...
Read full storyADA, Mich. -- October 3, 2026 Amway Corp. and two major affiliates have agreed to pay 225 million dollars under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Washington over allegations of unfair and deceptive recruiting tactics, but former Independent Business Owners still have no claim f...
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