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Herbalife India Plans Expansion

Herbalife India is currently expanding across India, which happens to be one of the top ten global markets for the company. Herbalife is a California-based $2.32 billion leading weight management, nutrition and personal-care company already well established across 73 countries with a network of over 2 million indepe...

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doTERRA Joins Forces With John Chou

A leading essential oils company that provides Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG) essential oils and CPTG essential oil-enhanced products has recently announced its collaboration with John Chou, a well known Taiwanese business leader with a reputation as a direct-selling juggernaut in the Taiwan business world....

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MonaVie Accuses Zrii Of Copying Pay Plan

A well known nutritional fruit drink manufacturer, MonaVie, is suing Zrii for allegedly copying its copywrited compensation plan and using it to compensate its independent distributors. Compensation plans are integral parts of a company's design due to it being a major factor in a distributor's decision to work with...

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Tahitian Noni Concludes 250k Challenge

After providing the entire network marketing industry with a $250,000 challenge that states no competing superfruit drink can rival that of their own, Tahitian Noni International recently announced that its challenge had been concluded, with no competitors stepping up to the plate. Despite the vast array of superfru...

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Oriflame Ukraine Market Report

In the second half of 2009 Oriflame Cosmetics Ukraine DP introduced Wellness, a new line of business consisting of dietary supplements and slimming products. If this line is successful, an increasing number of players amongst well-known companies are expected to enter slimming products. Previously, in the 1990s, sli...

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Tahitian Noni Lands Stevie Award

Tahitian Noni International (TNI) won a Stevie award for its Tradewinds magazine at the 2010 American Business Awards in New York City. Stevie Award winners were selected from more than 2,700 entries that had been submitted from organizations of all sizes, in all 50 states, and in virtually every industry in America...

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Tahitian Noni Announces Iridoid Research Symposium

Tahitian Noni International (TNI) announced that the first annual International Iridoid Research Symposium will be held at TNI headquarters in Provo, Utah, on August 16th and 17th. Scientists from around the world will be presenting current research on iridoids in both plants and animals. The symposium is being pres...

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Zippi Blasts BP

Zippi Networks, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ZIPZ), an Applications company focused on delivering entertainment, gaming, and social networking App's for today's mobile lifestyle, today announced its submission of a mobile gaming application, "BP Blaster". The game was designed and submitted to Apple on June 18, 2010. As the G...

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Yves Rocher Featured On Rentabiliweb

The Rentabiliweb Group Embarks Upon its Development Strategy via External Growth With the Acquisition of Very High Valued-Added "Health and Well-Being" Content With a Select Female Audience Fond of Online Shopping Rentabiliweb is announcing that it has acquired all of the editorial, brand and database content of "Cl...

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Wealth Masters International Visits Calgary

Wealth Masters International (WMI) is soon to hit Calgary to host their very first live event while on a world tour. The gathering will include top leaders such as Kip Herriage and Karl Bessey in addition to other top leaders in the WMI family. During the event, speakers will be sharing their inspirational vision wi...

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Nu Skin Enterprises Dubs New Management

Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. today named Luke Yoo president of the company's North Asia region, which includes the company's businesses in Japan and South Korea. Yoo will fill the role formerly held by Brett Nelson who has accepted the position of president of Nu Skin North America. Ryan Napierski has been named as pre...

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XanGo Branding and Bashing Heats Up in Utah

Aaron Garrity, Gary Hollister, Joe Morton and two others, founders of XanGo, find the price of success comes not only with perks, but with drawbacks as well. Founded in 2002, XanGo offered their bottled mangosteen fruit juice, in bottles less than a quart in size, for $25. Millions have been sold, making both the co...

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Oriflame to Become WTA Official Cosmetics Partner

The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's new official cosmetics partner, beginning in 2011, is Oriflame. The direct sales company, founded in 1967 in Sweden, has a global presence in more than 60 countries worldwide. The two year agreement between Oriflame and the WTA states the company will become an official partner in Europe...

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Xango mentioned in Canadian top ten menu trends

The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association has announced their top 10 food trends on Canadian menus. The superfruit, mangosteen, was among this group. Xango juice was mentioned as it is sold in Canada and 33 other international markets. The article can be read at the link below.

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EcoQuest to Market New Nappies in the Outback First

EcoQuest is planning to launch its new 93 percent biodegradable disposable baby diaper, Little Takas, this year in the land down under. The decision to launch in Australia first was reached because natives there pay more for disposable diapers as well as buy more per year. Steve Moncur, formerly of Sweden's Nature B...

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Nu Skin Board Chairman Sells off 4M Shares

Blake Roney, Chairman of the Board of Nu Skin Enterprises Inc, and 10% company owner, sold 4 million shares of his stock on June 9, 2010 at an average price of $25.65 per share. Generally not considered a good sign of internal financial stability, the selling of company stock by a board member, especially in vast am...

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Herbalife Entrepreneurs Offer Fast Food Alternative

Healthy lifestyle company Herbalife is being taken to another level by two Manhattan entrepreneurs who opened Healthy Fusion, a nutritional shake bar and Herbalife product store. The store will offer consumers an alternative to eating on the go, in the form of healthy Herbalife products and shakes, as well as nutrit...

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DubLi Launches New Global Entertainment Platform

DubLi, a subsidiary of MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MEDG), today announced it will launch a global entertainment platform. The platform will provide customers around the globe with the opportunity to subscribe to a variety of entertainment and media accessories such as music, movies, audio books and mor...

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Vemma Teaming With Childrens Miracle Network And The NEXT Generation

Vemma's second annual fundraising campaign for Children's Miracle Network kicks off this summer, June 1 - August 31, 2010. Funds raised will contribute to medical care, research and education throughout a network of 170 children's hospitals and foundations. Vemma NEXT, the company's liquid children's supplement, wil...

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Medical Marijuana Inc Achieves Largest Sales Force In The Industry

Medical Marijuana Inc has recently announced that it has established the largest ever sales force in the medical marijuana industry. The Hemp Network, a well known direct sales division that markets hemp products worldwide, recently enrolled Independent Associate number 420 . November of this year is looking to be a...

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Ardyss Unleashes The Body Magic Wonder Garment

Ardyss International has introduced its new "Body Magic Wonder Garmet" to the United Kingdom in hopes of making sales on its ability to change the shape of a woman's body. The manufacturer of the Body Magic reshaping undergarment alleges that the product immediately lifts and firms the troublesome areas on a woman's...

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Amway Introduces China To The American Dream

Amway, the Ada, Michigan-based direct-sales company known for its vitamin supplements, makeup, and dishwashing soap has found major success in China, having become a favorite business opportunity among China's middle class. Tang Shaoping is one of Amway's 13000 top sellers awarded with a trip to the United States fo...

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Nu Skin Engages In Secondary Stock Offering

Nu Skin Enterprises, a US-based distributor and developer of personal care products and nutritional supplements, has commenced an underwritten secondary public offering of 4.46 million shares of its class A common stock. The shares are being sold by three of the company's founders who currently serve as members of t...

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L2 Digital To Produce Commercial For Herbalife

L2 Digital has been hired by Herbalife International of America, Inc. to direct and produce a set of Mandarin commercials airing in China. The commercials feature 35 Mandarin and Cantonese actors in 9 different locations in Los Angeles, over two shooting days. L2 was delivered initial storyboard frames featuring the...

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Beachbody Unleashes Body Gospel

Beachbody has partnered with fitness trainer, Donna Richardson Joyner to produce this home workout program, putting into practice that we should treat our body as a temple. It encourages a healthy, active lifestyle. Donna Richardson Joyner's secret to success incorporates faith-based exercise and healthy nutrition, ...

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MediaNet Group Strengthens Executive Team

MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MEDG) today announces that three top executives have joined the management team -- Wendy Berkowitz, Richard W. Robson, Jr., and Brack Jaskey. Wendy Berkowitz, as the Company's buyer, now leads the team in the planning, purchasing and the implementation of auctions, and aucti...

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Zrii To Donate To Saint Jude Research Hospital

Draper, UT June 2, 2010 -- Zrii LLC formally announced last week that the Zrii Foundation will center its 2010 efforts on St. Jude's Research Hospital. As a wellness company, Zrii felt that contributing towards the ongoing battle with cancer would be an appropriate focus and provide hope to children where there is n...

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Herbalife To Sponsor FC Barcelona

Herbalife Ltd. announced a three-year, multi-million dollar agreement with FC Barcelona to make Herbalife the club's Official Nutrition Sponsor. At the same time, Leo Messi has agreed to a personal sponsorship agreement. The contract with FC Barcelona involves the acquisition by Herbalife of global association right...

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Oriflame To Introduce 30 New products To India

Oriflame of Sweden plans to introduce a series of 25-30 new products, in addition to 50,000 new people per month into India in order to tap into the highly lucrative Indian market. "In Asia, India is the most important market, besides China. In the coming year, I see it as the largest market for us. Our ultimate aim...

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Amway To Send 13000 Top Sellers To Southern California

Last weekend, Southern California was greeted with full bus loads of Chinese tourists visiting the local hotspots such as Disneyland and the local malls in convoys of 100. The waves of Chinese consumers will be coming over the course of the next month and are estimated to give the local economy a $10 million boost. ...

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