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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 and [...]

Alticor and Amway Sales Growth: 1960 to 2008

This is an update of a graph I did last year for AmwayWiki

Amway global sales were reported at “estimated retail” until 2000 when the holding company of Alticor was formed. This means they’re valued assuming that they were all sold at the full retail price, not at the price they were sold to distributors/IBOs. Alticor [...]

$8,200,000,000+

I’ve been awaiting the official sales data which are due out next week, but Amway founder Rich DeVos has let the cat of the bag today – Alticor/Amway sales for 2008 were $8.2 billion, a 15% rise of 2007.
Huge

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Amway wins an Emmy!

Well, strictly speaking it’s not Amway’s Emmy, and it’s not quite one of those Emmy’s, nevertheless, animator Matt Campbell of HDStudios has been awarded an Emmy by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his video The Company Line, produced for Amway’s parent company, Alticor. The video won in [...]

On the Road with Dave in Prague

As some of you know I’ve been (like half the northern hemisphere apparently!) not very well the past month or so, with both a viral infection and a secondary bacterial sinus infection. I’m well on the mend now, but I haven’t had much energy to put into this site or anything else!
Unfortunately that also means [...]

Prague conference update

Well, back home after participating in the blogging panel at the Alticor Global Communications conference in Prague. Frankly – I’m exhausted! … and I only had a 2 hour flight home, I feel for my blogging colleagues all having to fly back to the US. And I have *no idea* how Robin Luymes has managed [...]

Blogging my way to Prague update

Just a quick update. I’ve been shorter on time than I was expecting the last couple of days, so I haven’t yet finished my next posts. I promise at least one (and probably two) of them will be up sometime Friday!

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