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North Avon lady the most successful in UK

Oct 25 2009 by Liz Lamb, Sunday Sun

Debbie David is most successful Avon lady in the UK

DING Dong! North woman Debbie Davis has found her calling.

The 29-year-old is the most successful Avon lady in the UK.

Since landing a job with the cosmetics giant five years ago she has amassed a £7m turnover for the company and now employs a team of over 2,800 people.

Her success makes Debbie the highest achieving sales leader in the country.

But if Avon hadn’t come calling life could have turned out differently for the former factory worker.

Five years ago Debbie was jobless and living on the breadline after she lost her job at a printing factory in Sunderland.

Desperate to find her £400 rent Debbie signed up to be an Avon lady and was amazed when she turned over £18,800 during a three-week sales campaign.

She says: "It’s unbelievable. To go from nothing to this is amazing.

"I was absolutely skint, I had nothing.

"I got made redundant in 2004 and I needed money, the main thing I needed was the £400 rent for the house.

"I thought if I started as an Avon rep I could find people in my local area who wanted to buy Avon and I’d get the £400.

"I’d been an Avon customer myself and my mum did it when I was younger so I had grown up with Avon.

"I started off as a sales lady selling the products then I went on to recruit other people to sell the products.

"Currently I have a team of 2,500 people working with me and I made around £250,000 last year."

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