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SCOTTSDALE, 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 product innovation and a University of Illino...
Arbonne 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 Research Center, Inc. (ERC), a San Diego-...
GRAND 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 will move into a part-time advisory rol...
The 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. No claim form is required. Recipients w...
BELLINGHAM, 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 Form 8-K, Sanford confirmed to the board on...
GREENSBORO, 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 SHOP.COM Domain Name to Shopify," updating ...
GOTHENBURG, 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 kronor. External sales at Faun Pharma w...
Would-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 enrolls people to work as independent trav...
ADA, 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 form, website or deadline for seeking red...
WINONA, 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 foodservice and private-label businesses and its ...
NEW DELHI, India -- September 28, 2026 Oriflame said it is targeting India to become its largest market globally by 2030, with the country expected to contribute about one in every four euros of global revenue, up from roughly one in every ten euros today. The company plans to add about 1 million new Beauty Entrepreneurs in India by 2030 and to expand bey...
SEOUL, South Korea -- September 27, 2026 RIMAN, the South Korean beauty and wellness direct selling company, now operates in 22 markets after opening France, Germany and Romania on September 9, 2026 and Ecuador on September 15. The three new European countries bring RIMAN's European footprint to seven markets, joining the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain an...
BEIJING -- September 23, 2026 Amway President and CEO Michael Nelson said the company remains fully committed to China and will continue to invest for the long term, describing China as one of Amways most strategic markets after more than 30 years in the country. Nelson said Amways Guangzhou manufacturing base is its largest production hub worldwide and t...
AGNT, Inc., parent of eXp Realty, said it completed on September 14, 2026, the repurchase of 8,693,290 shares of common stock from Frank Selden as trustee of the Gratitude 2022 Trust for an aggregate purchase price of about 31.99 million dollars, or 3.68 dollars per share. The deal closed under a stock purchase agreement dated September 3, 2026. AGNT said...
Nu Skin Enterprises has wound down BeautyBio, the skincare and beauty-device brand it acquired for 75 million dollars in 2023, according to reporting confirmed with the brand founder and mirrored by the BeautyBio public website message directing shoppers to Amazon. Nu Skin earlier disclosed that it decided in the first quarter of 2026 to wind down the sep...