Category Archives: Amway Asia

What do Jennifer Lopez, Kaoru Nakajima, Doug DeVos, and Bill Clinton have in common?

They were all headline acts at an Amway event in Osaka, Japan last weekend! It seems a good time was had by all -

Amway goes K-POP

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the past year, you’ve surely encountered the wildly successful Gangnam Style song and music video from Korean pop star PSY. Well, Amway Korea has apparently been swallowed by the K-Pop trend. I give you “Dreaming” one of the stranger (for us westerners) Amway videos that I’ve encountered – [...]

Good news for Amway India

In some good news for Amway India and other direct selling companies, it’s been reported that – “An inter-ministerial committee is expected to come out with regulatory guidelines for direct selling companies by the end of this month” Amway India and other companies in the market have been suffering from a lack of clear guidelines [...]

Amway India letter to distributors

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

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 [...]

Amway India now free to join

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, [...]

The bizarre world of Amway in India

For some years now I’ve been trying to write a post about the trials and tribulations of Amway India, and I never quite manage to get one done. It’s a struggle  just to sort through the bizarre allegations, unreadable and confusing legalize, and the truly bizarre misinformation of Amway’s critics. Anyway, I’m trying again. As [...]

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