Avon to cease operations in 16 Caribbean nations

Published: 16-Feb-2015

Direct seller to pull out of Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas

Avon is to cease operations across 16 Caribbean nations and will instead focus its resources on improving its US business.

A spokeswoman from the direct selling giant told The Associated Press that the company will no longer accept orders from places including Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas.

Spokeswoman Lindsay Fox said that the company will continue to serve eight islands including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. She declined to say how many sales representatives would be affected by the action.

Avon has been affected by ongoing financial troubles, but hopes to make $400m in cost savings by next year.

The company has already cut more than 1,500 jobs in various different locations worldwide. However, at the end of last year, Avon still employed more than 36,000 employees.

But it is not all bad news for Avon. At the end of 2014, it opened its first standalone store in Warsaw, Poland, called The Avon Studio. Katarzyna Szczepańska, Head of Avon Business Centre Development, told CBN the store was part of a “multichannel strategy” that it had been building for the past few years in central Europe.

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