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List Of Multi-level Marketing Companies
This is a list of companies which use multi-level marketing (also known as network marketing, direct selling, referral marketing, and pyramid selling) for most of their sales. Active * 5Linx * ACN Inc. * AdvoCare * Ambit Energy * American Income Life Insurance Company * Amsoil * Amway * Amway Global, previously known as Quixtar * Ann Summers * Arbonne International * Avon Products * Barefoot Books * Beachbody * Beautycounter * BioPerformance * The Body Shop * Cutco * Discovery Toys * doTerra * Educo Seminar * Forever Living Products * FreeLife * Fuel Freedom International * Herbalife * Isagenix International * Juice Plus * LegalShield, previously known as Pre-Paid Legal Services * LifeVantage (Protandim) * LimeLife * Longrich * LuLaRoe * Lyoness * Mannatech * Market America * Mary Kay * Medifast * Melaleuca * Monat * Morinda, Inc. * National Safety Associates * Nature's Sunshine Products * Neal's Yard Remedies Organic * Nu Skin Enterprises * Omnilife * Oriflame * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beachbody
The Beachbody Company is a publicly traded American fitness and media company based in El Segundo, California. It operates the brands Beachbody On Demand, Team Beachbody, MYXfitness and Openfit. The company also sells dietary supplements such as Shakeology and Beachbar through direct response infomercials and multi-level marketing via independent Team Beachbody "coaches" who serve as sales consultants. History The company was founded in 1998 by Carl Daikeler and Jon Congdon in Santa Monica, California. Daikeler was previously in informercials for Lifeline Gym and :08 Min Abs in the 1990s. The founders received $500,000 in Angel investor, angel investing, developed a series of workout videos and bought the website Beachbody.com. In 2005, P90X, or Power 90 Extreme, was created by Tony Horton (personal trainer), Tony Horton as a commercial home exercise regimen and developed as a successor to the program called "Power 90". It consists of a training program that uses cross-training ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juice Plus
Juice Plus is a branded line of dietary supplements. It is produced by Natural Alternatives International of San Marcos, California, for National Safety Associates (NSA; Collierville, Tennessee). Introduced in 1993, the supplements are distributed by NSA via multi-level marketing. Juice Plus supplements contain fruit and vegetable juice extracts with added vitamins and nutrients. There is no good evidence that Juice Plus offers health benefits. Many marketing claims made about Juice Plus products are false or misleading. History Foundation and early marketing National Safety Associates was founded in 1970 by Jay Martin, a schoolteacher-turned-entrepreneur, who continued as CEO as of 2012. NSA initially sold home fire-protection equipment via door-to-door salespeople. In the late 1970s, they expanded into water filtration products. In 1986, they began using multi-level marketing, then expanding their product line to air filters and educational games for pre-schoolers. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isagenix International
Isagenix International LLC is a privately held multi-level marketing (MLM) company that sells Dietary supplement, dietary supplements and personal care products. The company, based in Gilbert, Arizona, was founded in 2002 by John Anderson, Jim Cover, and Kathy Cover. In 2017, the company reported revenues of $958 million. The company has been challenged for making product claims that are not supported by science. History Isagenix was founded by John Anderson and Jim and Kathy Cover in 2002. Anderson had previously worked in the nutritional supplement industry and Jim and Kathy Cover had experience in the multi-level marketing industry. Isagenix expanded into Australia and New Zealand in 2007. In February 2009, Isagenix was part of a nationwide product recall, recall on peanuts thought to be contaminated with Salmonella, which were used by Isagenix in their Chocolate Dipped Honey Peanut Bar. The recall was voluntarily issued by the company, on Food and Drug Administration, FDA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbalife
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd., also called Herbalife International, Inc. (with a U.S. subsidiary called Herbalife International of America) or simply Herbalife, is a global multi-level marketing (MLM) corporation that develops and sells dietary supplements. The company was founded by Mark R. Hughes in 1980, and it employs an estimated 9,900 people worldwide. The business is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, with its corporate headquarters located in Los Angeles, California. The company operates in 95 countries through a network of approximately 4.5 million independent distributors and members. In October 2022, previous CEO Michael O. Johnson was appointed as Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer following the departure of John Agwunobi. The company has been criticized for allegedly operating a "sophisticated pyramid scheme". Herbalife agreed to "fundamentally restructure" its business, in the US but not worldwide, and pay a $200 million fine as part of a 2016 settlem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuel Freedom International
Fuel Freedom International is a multi-level marketing company based in Altamonte Springs, Florida and co-owned by Wendy Lewis and Randy Ray. It sells pills trademarked as MPG-CAPS, which are claimed to improve fuel economy, reduce emissions and increase engine power when used as a gasoline additive. The company says that the product was "originally developed by NASA for the 1970s space shuttle program",Product Advertisement, The Star Newspaper, Christchurch, NZ, 27 August 2008 although no documentary evidence is offered to support this claim. EPA registration The product is EPA registered per 40 CFR 79.23 - a requirement for all gasoline additives sold in the US. Registration involves providing a chemical description of the product and certain technical, marketing and health-effects information. The EPA did not test the claims of increased engine power and reduced emissions, and does not endorse, certify or approve the product. The company report attached to the EPA report ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FreeLife
FreeLife International is an American multi-level marketing company established in 1995 by Ray Faltinsky and Kevin Fournier that supplies dietary supplements. History Ray Faltinsky and Kevin Fournier were backed by a group of investors that included family, friends and Anson Beard, previously of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter. FreeLife includes operations in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Hong Kong, Macau, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States. Over several years, the company's spokesperson Earl Mindell made claims of unfounded health benefits from consuming the company's goji juice product called "Himalayan Goji Juice", implicating anti-cancer and anti-aging properties. Specifically in 2007, Mindell's statements were made during a hidden camera investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation whose reporter, Wendy Mesley, questioned the supposed anti-cancer properties of Himalayan Goji Juice. During the same inves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forever Living Products
}Forever Living Products was founded in 1980 in Tempe, Arizona by Rex Maughan. The company has reported a network of 9.3 million distributors and revenue of $4 billion in 2021, and in 2006 they reported having 4,100 employees. History Forever Living was founded in 1978 in Tempe, Arizona by Rex Maughan. By the 1990s, Rex Maughan had purchased the Texas companAloe Veraof America, with Aloe Vera of America selling its products to Forever Living for distribution. Some journalists have likened the multi-level marketing business model of Forever Living's distribution system to that of a pyramid scheme. In 1983, the company was named No. 6 on ''Inc. Magazine'''s annual Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. According to Arthur Andersen's Top 100, as of 1993, Forever Living Products International was Arizona's second-largest private company. As of August 1995, ''Forbes'' reported the company's product line included "deodorants, toothpaste, laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educo Seminar
Tony Quinn (born 7 February 1946) is an Irish businessman, yoga entrepreneur, mind coach and Cult-leader who founded the Educo Cult. Background Quinn was born in Arbour Hill in inner-city Dublin. Quinn left school early and was a salesman for HB Ice Cream. At 17 he was an apprentice butcher in Phibsborough and then a bouncer at Club Go Go on Dame Street in Dublin. Career In the 1970s he established communes in Templeogue and Howth where members were often on limited pay. In 1978 the ''News Of The World'' confronted Quinn with his claims he could cure Cancer. They made him aware of the Cancer Act 1939 which states "No person shall take part in the publication of any advertisement containing an offer to treat any person for cancer." Quinn responded "I wasn't aware of that. It was a genuine mistake". In 2006 a follower of Quinn who operated an Educogym in Glasgow repeated the assertion that Quinn could cure cancer. Quinn has been variously described as a yogi, "fitness expert", " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DoTerra
doTerra (styled dÅTERRA) is a multi-level marketing company based in Pleasant Grove, Utah that sells essential oils and other related products. doTerra was founded in 2008 by former executives of Young Living and others. The company's products are sold through independent distributors called Wellness Advocates, using a multi-level marketing model to sell its products. Individuals receive commissions based on their own sales and the sales of others in their organization. The company and its representatives have repeatedly come under fire for misleading claims that their products could help prevent or cure diseases such as cancer, autism, Ebola and more recently, COVID-19, even being the target of a warning from the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission. The assertion that aromatherapy can have curative properties beyond relaxation is not supported by the company. History The company was established in April 2008 by David Stirling, Emily Wright, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Toys
Discovery Toys is a multi-level marketing company specializing in educational toys. Its products are sold in the U.S. and Canada, and its headquarters are in Livermore, California. The company was purchased by Avon Products in 1997 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Eos International in 2001. History Discovery Toys was founded as a multi-level marketing company in 1978 by Lane Nemeth, a former daycare director, with a $5,000 family loan. Lane, a mother from the San Francisco bay area, started the company when she was unable to find educational toys for your own kids. According to Nemeth, the company had 2,500 sales "consultants" in 1982 and had reached $4.6 million in revenue the previous year. Ms. Nemeth grew the company to a $100 million in annual revenue by 1997 then sold the company to Avon who sold it in 2002 to a private equity group. Discovery Toys was acquired by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Eos International, Inc. in July 2001. One of the company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cutco
Cutco Corporation, formerly Alcas Corporation, is an American company that sells knives, predominantly through direct sales or multi-level marketing. It is the parent company of CUTCO Cutlery Corp., Vector Marketing, Ka-Bar Knives, and Schilling Forge. Its primary brand is named Cutco. The company was founded in 1949 by Alcoa and Case Cutlery (hence "Al-cas") to manufacture stainless steel knives for Alcoa's WearEver Cookware division. Alcoa purchased Case's share in the company in 1972, and Alcas became a separate private company in 1982 after a management buyout. In 1985, the company acquired Vector Marketing Corporation. In early 2009, Alcas changed its name to Cutco, the name of the primary product. Products Cutco is a brand of cutlery and kitchen accessories directly marketed to customers through in-home demonstrations by independent sales representatives who are mostly college students. More than 100 kitchen cutlery products are sold under the Cutco name, as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
