Article: Multi-level marketing gains favour in Thailand's direct-sales industry.

By Sujintana Hemtasilpa, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 16--Ever eager to increase sales, many direct sales companies are dumping their single-level marketing models in favour of multi-level marketing.

A recent example is Avon Products Inc. The 119-year-old cosmetics company is transforming its international operations in Southeast Asia into a full-scale, multi-level marketing venture.

Multi-level marketing (MLM), which uses a pyramid-shaped organisational structure of sales agents, is considered one of the world's most popular marketing methods. Up to 80 percent of direct-selling firms globally use a ...

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