The Truth About Amway

Amway’s amazing 2011 – some statistics

ibofightback — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:49:16 +0000

Last October I posted how Amway North America had over 1200 new Founders’ Platinums and above last year. Well, I’ve now received some global statistics from Amway’s record breaking 2011, and they’re frankly staggering. 6 new Crown Ambassadors 7 new Crowns 8 new Triple Diamonds 25 new Double Diamonds 83 new Executive Diamonds 339 new [...]

Critiquing the Critics

ibofightback — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:17:44 +0000

Bloomberg Business Week has today published an article about the direct selling industry that appears to be little more than a propaganda piece straight from the pen of MLM critic Robert FitzPatrick. It astounds me that supposed journalists do so little research on these self-declared “experts” and even less on the claims they’re making. So I’m going [...]

Oh the confusion …. CSPI gets it (mostly) very wrong.

ibofightback — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:46:07 +0000

The Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a somewhat voracious “defender” of a healthy lifestyle. While I agree with many of their positions, I disagree with much of the way they go about it, with attacks on various foods and supplements that often go outside scientific support and verge on obsession. I [...]

Interview with head of Amway Russia

ibofightback — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:29:03 +0000

Just came across this great interview by Voice of Russia with Richard Steven, General Director of Amway Russia. The interview covers the startup, success, and challenges of opening Amway in the country. He confirms that Amway Russia has record sales for 2011 and global sales exceeding $10 billion. Confirmation of global sales is expected as [...]

Amway smashes through $10 billion

ibofightback — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:32:01 +0000

I’ve received a lot of queries about this and I’ve confirmed from reliable sources that Amway exceeded $10.2 billion in global sales for the 2010/2011 IBO financial year. Note that this is not the official 2011 sales figures – which should be self-evident since the year isn’t finished yet! In 1999/2000 Amway/Alticor switched to reporting [...]

Amway India letter to distributors

ibofightback — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:17:19 +0000

The following email sent by Amway to all Emeralds and up in India a couple of weeks ago regarding the situation with Sajeev Nair and MonaVie Dear Leaders, Greetings from Amway India !!!! As you are aware by now, Amway India had its biggest sales month in September’11 when we had Rs.251 crore of sales. With such [...]

MonaVie vs Amway Redux

ibofightback — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:49:10 +0000

Back in 2007/2008 Amway in North America (then known as Quixtar) was involved in a deal of controversy after terminating several Diamonds associated with the organisation TEAM, led primarily by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. Eventually TEAM and many associated Diamonds joined another MLM company, MonaVie. There were then various legal battles between all parties [...]

Kerala (India) issues guidelines for direct selling firms such as Amway

ibofightback — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:57:13 +0000

As per my previous post Amway India has been having challenges in that country with some poorly worded laws and a lack of regulation for the direct selling industry. Amway is implementing some changes from November 1, including removing all joining fees. The changes were a response to the Indian state of Kerala issuing some [...]

Amway India now free to join

ibofightback — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:34:44 +0000

I reported a couple of weeks ago about Amway India’s legal challenges, with two states (Andhra Pradesh and Kerala) and an Indian federal body, “The Enforcement Directorate” investigating them. As I noted I thought the claims against Amway were frankly bizarre, but nevertheless Amway can’t afford to do anything but take such cases seriously. Well, [...]

Amway Watch Lives!

ibofightback — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:25:15 +0000

A few years back I set up the website Amway Watch, with the idea of collating all PR and news media reports about Amway around the world. Unfortunately over the last couple of years the site was put to one side and not updated. Well, now Amway Watch is back! There’s an enormous back log [...]