The direct sales model also lends itself to fostering personal relationships between sales associates and their clients, creating brand loyalty and opening up opportunities for expansion through networking and word of mouth.

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But they also know that Europe's traditional high-tax, state-driven economic model had hit the buffers in terms of creating jobs and fostering growth.

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The world is in the midst of creating a new development model that, at the corporate level, could bestow competitive advantages and create sustainable corporate futures, while fostering more equitable global economic growth and also tackling climate change.

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