Scrutiny Of Direct Selling Businesses Prompts Avon To Leave Trade Group
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Avon says its own policies provide better protections to sales representatives than U.S. DSA’s code of ethics. DSA efforts to refute pyramid scheme allegations against some direct sellers help “a few specific brands” at the expense of the rest of the industry, the firm contends.
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