Honoring the Channel’s Innovators, Achievers & Visionaries
Direct promoting is—in some ways—an business in flux.
Because the preferences of each clients and distributors evolve, the channel persistently reimagines what it means to be a direct vendor. Income at many corporations remained flat or declined, however a number of notable corporations reported exceptional positive factors.
And corporations throughout the business continued to embrace and incorporate new practices and applied sciences to draw folks to the channel and to encourage present contributors to broaden their imaginative and prescient and deepen their engagement.
Towards this backdrop of change and problem, Direct Promoting Information held its seventeenth International Celebration occasion on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 in Dallas, Texas to acknowledge and rejoice the easiest of direct promoting. The evening was hosted by DSN Writer Patricia White with particular appearances by DSN Founder and CEO Stuart Johnson and Direct Method podcast host Wayne Moorehead.
Lots of of individuals representing dozens of corporations all over the world attended in particular person as awards and honors had been revealed in a number of classes, together with a Lifetime Achievement Award, over a dozen Bravo Awards and the revealing of the DSN International 100 Listing.
The Bravo Awards
Every year the Bravo Awards acknowledge corporations for excellent achievement and excellence in areas of management and the very best share of income progress. Specialty awards are additionally given to people and corporations for his or her achievements and repair. Expanded protection and in-depth seems to be at every Bravo Award recipient begins on web page 61.
The occasion started with the debut of a brand new class. The Bravo Empowerment Award acknowledges corporations that take a proactive strategy to educating, inspiring and investing in folks by way of the ability of private improvement. The primary winner of this award was Neora. Their mission of “making folks higher” isn’t only a feel-good tagline; it’s woven all through their onboarding, operations and choice making. They leverage the ability of The Slight Edge, a bestseller authored by Co-Founder and Co-CEO Jeff Olson and are additionally the driving drive behind Reside Blissful, an internet site and podcast with a mission to encourage and empower folks to make the world a happier and more healthy place.
The Bravo International Good Award acknowledges corporations that take a proactive strategy to environmental, philanthropic and social accountability points. This 12 months the respect went to Herbalife. Launching the Herbalife Household Basis as an impartial public charity in 1994, Herbalife’s legacy is firmly rooted within the perception that entry to good diet affords folks the chance to develop into one of the best variations of themselves. Additionally they keep long-standing neighborhood partnerships, together with a decade-long collaboration with the American Crimson Cross.
Subsequent, DSN honored three corporations with the Bravo Impression Award, which acknowledges the achievements of well-rounded corporations that take a holistic, measured and incremental strategy to progress, innovation and operational integrity.
The primary award went to Bravenly International. Since launching in 2020, the founders of Bravenly International needed to construct a model the place folks may pursue higher well being, create neighborhood and spend money on private {and professional} improvement. In 2025, that imaginative and prescient fueled main progress with Bravenly crossing the $100M mark in annual income and welcoming greater than 100,000 new households as Prospects or Model Companions.
The second honoree was Greenway International. After its first 12 months of operation, the income of corporations underneath this model worldwide totaled $49M. By 2025, that determine had grown to $372M. The corporate unites 5 established manufacturers underneath a single imaginative and prescient, creating a worldwide neighborhood with a shared mission.
The ultimate recipient was Zinzino. In 2025, the corporate achieved 80 p.c year-over-year progress and an formidable long-term imaginative and prescient to succeed in 100 million clients worldwide. Zinzino additionally makes an affect by way of its Glocal Help initiative, which offered full scholarships to greater than 1,500 kids.
Two Bravo Innovator Awards had been introduced. This award acknowledges direct promoting corporations that embrace and deploy rising applied sciences and future-focused methods that propel the channel ahead.
The primary was offered to EllieMD. Their mission is to assist people take a proactive function of their well being by way of personalised care, schooling and neighborhood help. By combining telehealth know-how with physician-guided therapies and a community-based mannequin, EllieMD has created a platform designed to help whole-person well being.
The second winner was RIMAN. This Korean powerhouse is dedicated to persevering with to rework scientific discoveries into merchandise that ship significant advantages. The model has demonstrated deep look after the earth and its highly effective substances, in addition to a steadfast pursuit of innovation and know-how that aligns with its dedication to sustainability.
The Bravo Provider Award is bestowed upon organizations that display distinctive innovation, experience and unwavering dedication to the continual development of the channel. This 12 months’s recipient was InfoTrax. Almost 5 many years into its journey, InfoTrax has develop into one of the crucial trusted names in commissions know-how. As direct promoting has develop into more and more digital, InfoTrax has ensured its know-how integrates seamlessly with the instruments corporations already rely on.
Two home Bravo Progress Awards had been introduced, one to a product-based firm and one to a service-based firm. This award celebrates direct promoting corporations with the very best year-over-year income progress on the International 100 Listing.
This 12 months’s home product Progress Award was given to MAKE Wellness. Launched in October 2024 by a gaggle of well-known and confirmed direct promoting executives, MAKE Wellness has captured the eye of well being and wellness entrepreneurs and clients. Inside 5 days of launch, they’d bought $7.2M of product and achieved income of $104M in its first full 12 months in enterprise.
Realty of America received within the service-based class. In July 2023, Eddie Garcia envisioned a digital, nationwide brokerage with a revenue-sharing mannequin that would redefine the actual property expertise. This new firm opened in September 2024, launching in 23 markets. Since then, the staff has achieved extra in its brief historical past than most brokerages will ever see. In 2025, the corporate reported practically $4B in transaction quantity and greater than $4.5M paid out in income share.
The Bravo Worldwide Progress Award winner was no stranger to the International Celebration stage. Luxembourg-based PM-Worldwide received the award for the sixth consecutive 12 months. In 2025, they reached one billion merchandise bought and surpassed $4B in annual retail gross sales—topping their very own document from the 12 months earlier than.
DSN additionally gave out three Bravo Awards recognizing people for his or her contributions to the direct promoting business.
The Bravo Excellence Award is reserved for executives with an extended historical past of management, excellence and integrity. The award was given to ACN’s Dave Merriman. For over 30 years, his diligence has been and stays invaluable as he oversees compliance coaching and processes whereas taking the lead on authorities and business relations by way of his place on the DSA Govt Committee and Board. His work ethic, ardour for the business, information and integrity outline who he’s as an individual.
The Bravo Management Award is reserved for Founders and CEOs and acknowledges excellent achievement and distinctive management. DSN bestowed this honor on two well-deserving business icons.
The primary recipient, Armand Puyolt of Vida Divina is a testomony to resilience, reinvention and an unwavering perception within the direct promoting channel. Over the course of his profession, he has constructed—and rebuilt—navigating business disruption, regulatory shifts and private adversity. However Armand’s management extends past his personal group. He has been a constant advocate for the business itself—targeted not simply on constructing an organization, however on strengthening the channel.
Tarl Robinson obtained the second Bravo Management Award. From an early age, Tarl noticed how direct promoting may remodel lives, and that perception carried by way of each stage of his profession—from constructing within the subject himself to moving into govt management and serving to form Plexus, one of the crucial acknowledged wellness corporations on the planet. Tarl excels not simply at constructing a enterprise however at constructing folks—creating an setting the place people can develop into greater than they thought doable.
The International 100 Listing—Instances Two
One of the vital eagerly anticipated bulletins annually on the International Celebration is the revealing of the International 100 Listing. This record stories the highest direct promoting corporations on the planet for 2025.
The International 100 gives a singular perspective on the worldwide affect of the business by acknowledging corporations’ income achievements. Recognition for every of those corporations is the end result of months of analysis and the cooperation of many people all over the world.
This 12 months, DSN separated the International 100 into two lists: product-focused corporations and service-focused corporations. These lists characterize each personal and public corporations with greater than $100M in annual income for the 2025 12 months. This 12 months’s lists are comprised of 59 corporations (43 product and 16 service) with mixed income of practically $63B. Protection of each lists begins on web page 128.
Lifetime Achievement Award
The DSN Lifetime Achievement Award is reserved for these whose profound contributions have left an everlasting legacy on the channel. And few have formed this area fairly like Graeme Clegg.
For greater than 4 many years, Graeme has helped folks dwell higher, more healthy lives.
Beneath his management, New Picture has expanded throughout greater than 20 international locations, reaching thousands and thousands of shoppers and establishing itself as a pacesetter within the wellness area.
However Graeme’s affect extends far past one firm. His work with international business organizations and his dedication to moral progress have helped form the channel for future generations.
The Oscars of Direct Promoting
The DSN International Celebration is the business awards occasion of the 12 months—an evening designed to rejoice, encourage and encourage! Congratulations to the winners and a honest thanks to all our Supporter Firms and Provider Sponsors for serving to DSN present this evening of celebration, recognition and camaraderie.
From the Might/June 2026 difficulty of Direct Promoting Information journal.
