Avon UK - About
Avon UK Avon Products, Inc, known as Avon, founded by David H. McConnell in 1886 is a direct selling company in beauty, household, and personal care groups. Avon had annual earnings of $5.7 billion globally in 2016. It is the fifth-largest beauty company as well as with 6.4 million agents, is the second largest direct selling venture on earth (after Amway). Avon Products is a marketing and advertising company. The company's CEO is Jan Zijderveld, that had been appointed to the position in February 2018. Avon sells products in over 100 nations. Brazil is the company's largest market, passing the United States in 2010. Avon entered the marketplace. Direct selling was outlawed in China in 1998, which forced Avon to market only through bodily shops called Beauty Boutiques. The ban has been lifted in 2001, and the company received a license for direct marketing in 2006. 88 percent of Avon's 2013 earnings (roughly $10 billion) came from international markets. Avon employs both door-to-door salespeople ("Avon ladies" mostly, in addition to some men) and brochures to advertise its products. The first Avon woman was Persis Foster Eames Albee. Avon operates training centers for potential representatives. Some Avon training centers have a small retail section with skin care products, like lotions, serums, makeup, and washes. Avon uses multilevel advertising to recruit sales representatives, who sell beauty products, jewelry, accessories and clothes. Check Out Avon Catalog Avon agents are considered a different sales representatives running her or his own business. A Few of the brand-names used by the organization include Avon, Avon Naturals, Skin-So-Soft and Mark. [citation needed] According to the U.S. government Avon has 5 million to 6 million sales representatives operating in over 100 nations as of 2014. Avon and its subsidiaries have 40,000 to
50,000 employees, 6,000 of which have been in the USA. Avon was an early member of the U.S. Direct Selling Association, which was set in 1910. The company left the institution in 2014, saying the trade group wasn't paying sufficient attention to the industry as a whole.