The Truth About Amway

Happy Birthday Amway!

ibofightback — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:56:25 +0000

It was 50 years ago today …

A new Amway brand – BeautyCycle

ibofightback — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:05:15 +0000

I mentioned a couple of months ago that Amway’s E.Funkhouser New York range was being phased out and what appeared to be a new, lower cost, Amway brand was going to be introduced. This has now been confirmed with articles in European Amagrams and websites. The Amway UK website says - To help grow the Amway business [...]

A new path for SuperDu – a tribute to Robin Luymes

ibofightback — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:03:11 +0000

A few weeks ago I learned that Robin Luymes had moved on from his employment at Amway Global as Manager – PR & Editorial. I don’t know the circumstances of his leaving Amway, but I do get the impression the move wasn’t in Robin’s plans, and like so many others around the world these past [...]

Amway critics and credibility – another one bites the dust

ibofightback — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:16:33 +0000

When you read stuff on the internet, it’s difficult to know what’s true and what’s not – generally all one can do is assess an authors credibility by what they say and how accurate it is. Everyone makes mistakes occasionally, but if people are making major errors of fact in their posts … well, it [...]

Amway is a US Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leader

ibofightback — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:52:34 +0000

North America readers are probably aware that many of Amway’s cleaning products have been recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency as being Designed for the Environment. What readers may not be aware of is that Amway is also a part of the EPA’s Climate Leader program. The EPA says about the program - Climate Leaders [...]

How many colors are you getting?

ibofightback — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:55:13 +0000

In recent times we’ve seen Amway opening high street stores in London and running billboards with move stars in Sydney. Today we’re seeing a really interesting promotion smack in the middle of New York City with the Nutrilite Farmers’ Market. Along with the market, where they’re giving away hundreds of fruits & vegetables [...]

Amway ranked one of China’s top consumer brands

ibofightback — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:20:12 +0000

Amway has been listed as one of China’s top consumer brands in the inaugural CLSA China Brands index. Of all brands, Amway was ranked 72nd, outranking companies such as Nestle (75), Apple (77), Panasonic (83), Toshiba (84), and Whirlpool (96). Amway was listed within the skincare category, where it ranked 3rd after mass market brands OLay and [...]

Amway Europe Average Incomes

ibofightback — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:20:40 +0000

Amway Europe has apparently finally calculated and released some average monthly income statistics for various levels of the business in Europe. These figures were for September 2007 to August 2008 and it’s of note that for 2009/10 (and perhaps ongoing) Amway has raised many bonuses 25%-100% for most platinums and above. Note: afaik they don’t [...]

John Tesh – The Amway Global Rap

ibofightback — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:53:33 +0000

As most North American IBOs know, television, radio, and music personality John Tesh is the voice of Amway Global in a series of television ads in the US. Tesh was apparently booked to perform at a recent Network 21 convention but couldn’t attend due to urgent surgery. He sent this video as an apology, and it [...]

Amway – one of Korea’s favourite foreign companies

ibofightback — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:03:50 +0000

According to a survey by the Korean Foreign Company Association (KOFA), Amway was the third favourite foreign company in Korea, beaten only by McDonalds and Carrefour and outranking companies like Citibank, IBM, Renault, and Sony. That’s a challenge for Amway business owners in the rest of the world! You’ve got much the same products and much the same [...]