Monthly Archives: August 2009

Amway UK Price Comparisons

I gave Amway Scandinavia a bit of a slam the other day for some of their partner store pricing and it provoked some interesting comments. What seems clear is some markets seem to do a good job of setting up good deals for ABOs, others are not so good at it. I’m curious as to [...]

Amway Scandinavia – Scandalous! What are they thinking?

One of the things Amway is often criticised for is “overpriced products”. Often the criticism is unfounded or unfair (see my earlier post Anatomy of Deceit – an Amway Critic’s price comparisons), but one common thread is that when people criticise Amway’s prices they more often than not don’t mention Amway products, but rather 3rd [...]

Alticor, Amway’s parent company, buys another genetics company

Alticor, Amway’s parent company, has announced today it is buying a controlling stake in Metagenics, a leader in the field of nutrigenomics – the science of nutrition and genes. Alticor already controls Interleukin Genetics, the creators of the Gensona personal genetics tests marketed through Amway Global. These purchases further strengthen Alticor as a global leader in nutrigenomics research [...]

Amway UK advertises for ABOs

Amway in the UK has launched a print ad campaign promoting the Amway Business Opportunity. The advertisement below is included in Jump magazine, a publication of the UKs largest parenting community Bounty. 100,000 print issues are distrubed via Toys R’ Us and a further 450,000 copies are circulated to members online. You can see the [...]

Amway: Part of the green movement. Before there was one.

One of the regulars on AmwayTalk, MichMan, often passes Amway world headquarters in Ada, Michigan. He sent me this photo of a great billboard that’s up nearby. When he first mentioned it in the AmwayTalk forums, another poster, Deb, mentioned that Amway introduced the word “biodegradable” to the world with it’s first product, L.O.C. – [...]

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