New online learning platform will revolutionise how
Avon helps Representatives learn
new skills and grow their businesses
LONDON, Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Avon Products,
Inc. (NYSE: AVP), a globally recognised leader in direct selling of
beauty products has announced a partnership with Fuse Universal
(Fuse) - a leading provider of next-generation learning technology
- to create a global training platform. The initiative supports a
central pillar of Avon's
transformation plan to digitise its business and accelerate the
selling and earning power of Avon's millions of Representatives
worldwide.
The partnership is one element of Avon's business strategy to 'Open Up' the
company and unleash the potential of the brand and business model.
The new training platform will revolutionise the way
Representatives experience training as Avon transforms into a digital-first, social
selling, fast-beauty brand.
The platform will deliver content to fuel Representative earning
potential – and thereby retention. Training delivered through the
platform will include a wide range of topics, from beauty tutorials
and skincare science to marketing and sales skills. Avon's goal is to reach millions of women with
a mix of blended training to help them build their Avon businesses.
Miguel Fernandez, President
Global Sales, said: "Our Avon beauty entrepreneurs are the
heart of our business and it's crucial that we provide them with
digital and mobile-first tools to open up their potential learning
and earning power. This is a core element of Avon's transformation plan, and as we have
recently reported, we're seeing early signs of the positive impact
new digital tools and increased training can have on our
Representatives' sales. In today's world of ready access to
technology, our new relationship with Fuse will enable us to
deliver training tools to our global network of Representatives in
a form that enables them to learn on their own terms as they grow
and thrive with Avon. We are
opening up Avon to better serve
our customers and support our Representatives. When she succeeds,
we succeed."
Following an extensive procurement process, Avon selected Fuse for its ability to create a
globally scalable learning platform. Fuse's learning platform
allows companies to create, curate and share content to facilitate
seamless learning, knowledge sharing and communication. The
platform is built with learners in mind and achieves employee
engagement rates up to 100x higher than other industry learning
providers.
Founder and CEO at Fuse Universal, Steve Dineen,
added, "Avon's business is
remarkable and touches millions of customers every day.
Avon beauty entrepreneurs need to
be armed with the latest knowledge on products and services, and
this partnership will help power Avon's transformation, with new ways of
working that can be executed with speed and agility. We're also
excited at the prospect of building a community environment
that empowers Representatives around the world to share their
best practices on sales skills, customer experience and product
knowledge in order to stay ahead of the competition."
The platform has already been successfully piloted in
South Africa and will now roll out
to Avon's key markets this year,
starting with the UK, South Africa
and Avon's largest markets in
Latin America.
About Avon Products Inc.
For 130 years Avon has stood
for women: providing innovative, quality beauty products which are
primarily sold to women, through women. Millions of independent
sales Representatives across the world sell iconic Avon brands such
as Avon Color and ANEW through their social networks, building
their own beauty businesses on a full- or part-time basis.
Avon supports women's empowerment,
entrepreneurship and well-being and has donated over $1billion to women's causes through Avon and the Avon Foundation. Learn more about
Avon and its products at
www.avonworldwide.com. #Stand4Her
About Fuse Universal
Fuse Universal is a learning technology company which helps
large and fast-growing companies build a culture of continuous
learning and drive measurable improvements in business performance.
Used by over 120 customers worldwide, including Spotify, Adidas,
Scandic, Vodafone, and Ogilvy, The Fuse platform combines machine
learning and artificial intelligence with beautifully-designed
tools to enable content curation, creation, and crowdsourcing. With
its mobile-first design and community features, Fuse Universal
enables companies to unlock knowledge and insights from their
top-performing employees in order to teach and engage their teams
worldwide, while also supporting traditional learning content and
courses.
Fuse Universal is proud of its global education charity,
FuseSchool, which supports 200,000 students online. Funded by Fuse
Universal's successful commercial business, FuseSchool is
transforming the secondary school education curriculum into
high-quality bitesize content, free for all to access.
Learn more at www.fuseuniversal.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This material contains
"forward-looking statements" that are made pursuant to the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995, including statements relating to Representative training
initiatives, engagement rates and the growth of Avon's business. Because forward-looking
statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties, actual
future results may differ materially from those expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the possibility of
business disruption, competitive uncertainties, and general
economic and business conditions in Avon's markets as
well as the other risks detailed in Avon's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Avon undertakes no obligation to update any
statements in this material after it is posted to the Investor
Relations section of our website.
View original
content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/avon-announces-partnership-to-deliver-global-training-platform-for-independent-sales-representatives-300798092.html
SOURCE Avon Products, Inc.