Mary Kay pulls plug on Australian and NZ operations


In an abrupt announcement on their Australian web site, Mary Kay has suggested they’re closing their Australian and New Zealand companies.

As of March fifth, Mary Kay advises it has closed operations in Australia and New Zealand.

The corporate cites “market circumstances” in each nations, wherein it states it ‘doesn’t see a sustainable future‘.

Actual gross sales figures for each markets are unknown, though one can safely assume Mary Kay in Australia and New Zealand will need to have been in decline.

Though Mary Kay states distributor have been ‘knowledgeable of the closures prematurely of the broader market‘, though seems this might need been lower than 24 hours discover.

Simply shy of a day in the past, one Mary Kay distributor on the AntiMLM reddit said she

didn’t see this coming. It was enterprise as typical with promotions, new product, convention {qualifications} and so forth.

The distributor’s upline purportedly additionally didn’t know, and took the announcement arduous in a “crying and distraught” Fb dwell.

My Director had no concept. It was very sudden.

From the appears of her through the dwell, she wouldn’t have been capable of play it off if it was a secret solely the upper ups had identified about for some time beforehand…

Three hours earlier, the distributor had posted a few new recruitment.

Mary Kay’s Australia and New Zealand social media profiles have been deleted. I solely discovered one remark in reference to the closure on their world Fb profile.

Mary Kay associates who wish to return merchandise to the corporate have till April sixth to take action, topic to the corporate’s return coverage.

Apparently Mary Kay has eliminated entry to distributor backoffices although, so recording return stock may be difficult.