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In DSA News, The 2008 The Direct Selling Association Industry Awards have been presented for achievement in innovation, partnership, community service and program excellence. The annual awards, were given to four companies during a recent meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The companies honored were, AdvoCare International, Direct Selling News, Herbalife, and Learning is an Art.

During the Annual Ceremony, the DSA also inducted its newest members to its Direct Selling Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes those who have given years of service to the industry and have made significant contribution to the DSA and its Direct Selling Education Foundation.

The newest Hall of Famer is Brian Connolly who worked at Avon for 30 years, starting as a Financial Analyst for the beauty Company and moving up the ladder to eventually VP of Sales and Operations, then President of Avon U.S. and just before retiring served as Executive VP of Avon North America. Connolly formerly served the DSA as a Chairman of its Board of Directors.

You can go to the DSA website to check out the companies honored and the achievements they were recognized for. Clearly you wont find Weekenders on that list - even though they were an active member of the DSA prior to them going out of business.

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Ok, here is what we have been able to find out thus far since we first broke the news of Weekenders allegedly going out of business. Weekenders does NOT seem to have filed for bankruptcy protection, yet - at least not in the US (which they would be required to do since they have a business license in the US). All searches of public records have produced nothing. However, since the company is actually registered as a Canadian company based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, we have been unable to search any public records there because they dont publish them online.

We also reached out to the Direct Selling Association (which Weekenders is/was a member of). The organization has not gotten back to us as of this update. It is a bit unusual that the DSA doesnt have a single mention on their website about one of their members allegedly going out of business and no information for distributors yet the headline of “In the News” is a 72 year old lady winning her 15th Pink Cadillac - seems pretty frustrating given the Associations mantra of “ethics, trust, confidence”.

We have called the Weekenders Corp office here in the US and Canada several times and just get a busy signal - the phone number we have is 905-886-5995. There is also another number of 847-478-0077 which doesnt seem to work either. Also, we were able to pull up an administrative contact named Shaun Langley who seems to use an email address of davidd@weekenders.com

The Canadian Weekenders website is down but US, UK and others are still live and still pitching the opportunity in their “Message“.

You can see the article that broke the news here. We will continue to provide more information as we get it.

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