Over 40 years ago, Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel, two young entrepreneurs from the USA, created a plan that enabled anyone to start their own business by selling quality products and [recruiting others] to do the same. This unique business opportunity has enabled Amway to grow into one of the worlds leading direct selling companies. Today, Amway supports ... business with over 450 exclusive products and services, a state-of-the-art global ordering and distribution network and ... four decades of experience and advice ... world headquarters in Ada, Michigan, USA, is over a mile (1.6km) long and is home to more than 300 research and development scientists, product development teams and ... business support personnel. All these resources are dedicated towards helping you achieve business success."

Ada is also one of four global manufacturing centers: Buena Park, California, USA; Lakeview, California, USA; and Guangzhou, China. Organic farms are located in at Lakeview, CA, USA; Trout Lake, Washington, USA; El Petacal, Mexico; and Tiangu, Ceara, Brazil." --Amway web site

Amway (for now) is known as Quixtar in North America and is owned by Alticor, the new name for the parent company.

Comp Plan: Traditional Stair Step Breakaway

Amway Company Site

Quixtar Company Site

News Clips

Climb to the Top - Article on past Amway "Kingpin" Orin Woodward
Forbes - NY, USA Emily Lambert and Klaus Kneale 8.11.08
Five years later Woodward quit gm to become a full-time distributor for Amway (now known as Quixtar in North America). Woodward quickly realized how ...

Alticor executive: United Kindom ruling sounds cautionary note
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids, MI, USA May 15, 2008
... ruling in a United Kingdom court vindicates Amway, according to a top executive, but is not cause for celebration ... 2007 legal action that threatened to boot the Alticor's Amway United Kingdom subsidiary out of the country showed the need for doing a better job monitoring its ...

High Court dismisses claims against Amway
Times Online - UK May 14, 2008
Amway (UK) cleared of "dream selling", operating an unlawful lottery and being an unlawful trading scheme. ... In 2004-2005 only 74 agents out of 25,342 earned more than £10,000 in bonuses ...

Amway India eyes masses to shore up top line
Economic Times - Gurgaon, Haryana, India 25 Apr, 2008
NEW DELHI: Faced with the challenge of slowing growth and the threat of legal trouble to its business in Andhra Pradesh, Amway India ... looking to reverse its fortune with the launch of a range of low-priced fast moving consumer goods products aimed at ...

MonaVie Files to Dismiss Quixtar Lawsuit SALT LAKE CITY April 16, 2008 -- MonaVie LLC , creator of the leading nutritional acai blend beverage, yesterday filed to dismiss a lawsuit brought last month by Quixtar North America, a sister company to Amway Corporation. In the court filing, MonaVie claims that the Quixtar suit is without merit.

IBOAI Board of Directors Calls MonaVie Initiative a Publicity Stunt
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria 2008-04-03 ..."There is also no coincidence in the timing of MonaVie's announcement, coming on the heels of their being joined, with great fanfare, by terminated ...

Amway Taking Back Its Name In Multimillion-Dollar Campaign
Mediapost.com - New York, NY, Friday, Mar 28, 2008
by Karl Greenberg, ALTICOR'S GLOBAL DIRECT-SALES UNIT, AMWAY, is undergoing a brand revamp in 2008 that will be completed in ...

Quixtar Files Suit vs. MonaVie To Protect Consumers, Halt Unfair Competition
PRNewswire Tuesday March 18, 8:09 pm ET
Quixtar, a sister company to Amway Corp., sells nutritional products through its Independent Business Owners (IBOs) that directly compete with MonaVie ... [the large IBO group TEAM headed by Chris Brady and Orin Woodward left Quixtar in 2007]

Rich DeVos make Forbes' list of richest people
MLive.com - MI,USA ... The Grand Rapids Press Amway co-founder Rich DeVos made the Forbes list of richest people in the world (again), coming in at 288th. ... nary a mention of the other founding Amway family since Jay Van Andel died in 2004. Van Andel's net worth was estimated at $2.3 billion in 2004 ...

TEAM leaders Orin Woodward and Chris Brady Announce new company affiliation Fri 15 Feb 2008 10:12 PM EST After considering many fields, opportunities, and companies, we finally selected, as our choice for future personal involvement, a company called Mona Vie ... court injunction was recently extended 45 days which, to the best we can interpret, precludes our taking such step at this time ...

Alticor flexes global muscle February 06, 2008 20:27PM - ADA TOWNSHIP -- Despite a tumultuous year battling with representatives in the U.S. and government regulators in the United Kingdom, Alticor Inc. reported record sales of $7.1 billion for 2007...

Amway tells court of company overhaul November 29, 2007 Times Online - UK
David Chivers, QC, on behalf of the company, said yesterday that Amway was a lawful multilevel marketing group and not an illegal "snowballing" or "money ... The group told the Companies Court yesterday that the changes were part of a global review of its business ... will scrap its joining fee and ban new agents them from recruiting “down-line” members until they have made sales above £200 in 12 months and have five customers ...

United Kingdom taking Amway to court - The Grand Rapids Press, November 09, 2007 ... Amway Corp headed for trial in United Kingdom that if loses, could result in death sentence for its multi-level sales business there ... expects trial to last through December... Outcome of the case there could spur regulatory issues in other countries ... Amway is undertaking a worldwide review of business practices

CPM cadres protest attack on state secy Statesman News Service
BHUBANESWAR, Nov. 2: Scores of CPI-M supporters, some of them armed with bows and arrows staged a demonstration here on Friday. They pelted stones at the office of Amway and damaged the glass panes breaching the police cordon in retaliation...>

Amway / Quixtar Sues to ID source of
negative Web content October 12, 2007 The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA ...case could be called Amway versus the Internet, or some might argue, Amway versus free speech ... Ada Township-based multilevel marketing giant filed broad-sweeping suit ... asks court to approve subpoenas of companies ranging from godaddy.com to YouTube ... postings referenced in the suit include videos, such as " Hooded Angry Man" (see video) where an unidentifiable man wearing a "Property of Quixtar" shirt rants about Quixtar rules and its history ... the YouTube video Shameus McSteeley: Quixtar vs. Meijer ," (see video) man with fake Irish accent compares prices of products ... with much higher-priced Quixtar products ... Woodward's attorney, D.J. Poyfair ... declined to comment ... said he is meeting with regulators to discuss the allegation Quixtar is an illegal pyramid scheme ... also said he plans to file a case with a court-ordered arbitrator making similar allegations in an effort to help Quixtar distributors get away from the company ...

Judge dismisses Amway distributors' lawsuit The Grand Rapids Press October 05, 2007 16:59PM ...lawsuit in which several prominent Amway distributors alleged the direct-sales giant was a pyramid scheme ... dismissed . . . "dismissal deals blow to Orrin Woodward's federal class-action legal attack," the statement said ... Attempts to reach representatives for Woodward were not successful ...

Ex-Quixtar Distributors Represented by
Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy ...September 06, 2007 10:26 AM Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA ... 1,400 affidavits of current and former Independent Business Owners were filed Tuesday night in Federal Court in Los Angeles supporting the plaintiffs’ motion for injunction ... statements also allege distributors are forced to purchase Quixtar's products themselves in order to qualify for bonuses ...

TEAM Wins Restraining Order vs. Quixtar
Sep 06, 2007 Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA ... The Quixtar vs. TEAM legal battle heats up across the country ... According to a legal document ...

UPDATE: Judge rules in Quixtar's favor 8/24/2007 11:17:07 AM WZZM13 NEWS ...ruling in for a case involving Quixtar, branch of the Alticor Corporation. Kent County Judge Paul Sullivan ruled largely in favor of Quixtar ... three separate opinions this morning ... Other judges ... granted ten temporary restraining orders [TROs] against Quixtar, and four others are pending....“Here we are, we're standing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We've got DeVos and Van Andel all over this town. Our clients understand that they're swimming upstream here."

Distributors Announce Wins in 10 Temporary
Restraining Orders ... August 24, 2007 11:59 PM Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA Today's rulings ... in the company's backyard of Grand Rapids, are inconsistent with the 10 TROs that have been granted to date against Quixtar ...

Judge Issues Clarification
August 28, 2007 08:05 PM Business Wire (PR) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... group had sought clarification in response to Quixtar's email notification to approx 75000 Independent Business Owners (IBOs) who participate ... "Though Quixtar has a 3-12 litigation record, it continues to boast loudly in release after release that it has crushed its opponent—if a football coach claimed having a successful season after winning only 3 of 15 games he would be laughed out of town” said Poyfair.

Rulings Expected Soon in Quixtar Cases Grand Rapids Press August 23, 2007 14:58PM ... three cases before Kent County Circuit Judge Paul Sullivan have potentially wide ramifications for Quixtar, the name Alticor Inc. gives its Amway direct sales business in the USA, and its network of thousands of distributors[IBOS] ... the ruling could affect everything from IBOs free speech rights to their rights to conduct non-competing business

Video coverage here:

Distributor Group Represented by Shughart,
Thomson & Kilroy ... August 15, 2007 09:00 AM Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... In fact, the distributors resigned from Quixtar on Thursday, prior to filing their class-action lawsuit against the company in Los Angeles Thursday ...

More at www.FreeTheIBO.com

Amway Sister Company, Quixtar Inc., Sued
by Distributor Group ... Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA, USA ... plaintiffs allege that Quixtar knowingly operates as a pyr*mid scheme and that it prevents distributors from leaving through ...

Quixtar's Press Release

Report: Britain threatens to ban Amway United Press International - USA LONDON, July 2 (UPI) -- Britain threatens to ban Amway from the country because it finds some of the company's business practices "objectionable," a ...

Alticor to rebuild Amway brand in North America 6/13/2007 The Bay City Times - Bay City, MI, USA ... shed some of the negative connotations that the Amway name had acquired, such as its multilevel marketing structure being no more than a pyramid scheme. ...

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