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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

Amway to open in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan

Following last week’s news reports that Amway Vietnam is scheduled to open in 2008, a report in Indian news media quotes Amway India Managing Director William S Pinckney as saying – “the company will start exporting to Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan from India within the next couple of years.” Given the current political [...]

16.6% growth for Amway India

Despite the distractions of being temporarily shutdown in the state of Andhra Pradesh because of a marital dispute, Amway India has reported spectactular sales growth for 2006. Amway India sales for 2006 are reported at Rs 738 crore (US$168 million) compared to revenues of Rs 633 crore in 2005 – growth of 16.6%. This is [...]

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