Wine Shop at Home in the Star Telegram  

The Star Telegram posted an excellent article online about home wine tasting parties and wine classes by Wine Shop at Home...

'Wherever I go, people are always asking me about home wine tastings," says Sharon Hughes, whose WineStyles retail shop in Keller does a couple of home classes a month, and...

Source: Star Telegram

Million Wishes in the News  

Million Wishes received mention in this article in the Nashua Telegraph.

Million Wishes is a direct-selling division of the Jones Apparel Group, which owns Jones New York, Nine West and Anne Klein. Million Wishes was launched in spring to direct-sell jewelry and accessories.

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Reliv International Resumes Stock Repurchase  

Reliv International to Resume Activity in Its Share Repurchase Program

CHESTERFIELD, Mo., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Reliv International, Inc., (Nasdaq: RELV - News), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary nutritional supplements, today said it has resumed activity i...

Source: Yahoo Finance

USANA  

WTA PLAYERS TO GET FREE VITAMINS

WTA Tour players will be provided with free vitamins and health supplements by a company offering up to $1 million US to any player who fails an anti-doping test because of their products. Under the three-year deal announced yesterday, USANA Health Sciences is pay...

Source: London Free Press

AdvoCare SPARK Energy Drink in the News  

Today, energy beverages represent a $3.5 million industry that is continuing to grow at a fervent pace (up 75 percent since 2005). With high revenues coming in, it would follow that marketers look to every channel of expansion. The development of enterprise marketing software has made it easier for...

Source: Destination CRM

Passion Parties in the Toronto Sun  

The Toronto Sun ran this article about Passion parties, comparing various 'adult' party plan programs and quoting annual sales.

This particular article references Passion Parties Canada, a division of the original Passion Parties headquartered in Nevada....

Source: The Toronto Sun

USANA makes renewable energy purchase  

USANA Health Sciences Inc., a West Valley City manufacturer and direct seller of nutritional supplement and personal-care products, has made a large renewable energy purchase from Rocky Mountain Power. The company is buying 75,000 kilowatt-hours of Blue Sky wind energy per month, which is enough to...

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Xango in TheCelebrityCafe  

From TheCelebrityCafe:

XanGo

This will sound strange so grab your reality and hold on. XanGo is a drink made from the fruit of an evergreen tree called "mangosteen." While it sounds like it is a tree grown in Brooklyn, it is not. Anyway, a dose a day, cold from the refrigerator, hits the back...

Source: TheCelebrityCafe

Mary Kay Cosmetics Begins Test Marketing in India  

The Economic Times in New Delhi ran an article on Mary Kay Cosmetic's test marketing in the country: ...It's a song that the Boss made memorable. It’s a film that Clint Eastwood starred in. But most famously, it’s a concept that Mary Kay popularised. Yup we’re talking about the pink Cadillac. An...

Source: The Econonic Times

Quixtar Expands Health Offerings for Kids  

Quixtar Expands Health Offerings for Kids New Flavors and Low-Sugar Options in Nutrilite Brainiums and Seismic Lineup

Quixtar reports the dramatic increase in the weight of our Nation’s children is leading parents to increasingly seek tasty alternatives to high calorie foods. And as anyone who ha...

Source: PR Web

Creative Memories Adds Jobs in St Cloud  

St. Cloud, Minn. Scrapbooking company Creative Memories is adding jobs in St. Cloud, Minn. as it looks to expand its digital scrapbooking offerings.

Creative Memories had laid off 33 people in May as it restructures. But now 13 jobs will be added at its base St. Cloud as the company looks to expan...

Source: WCCO.com

Shaklee Unveils Growth Platform  

Shaklee Corporation Celebrates 50th Anniversary: Unveils a Powerful Growth Platform SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- August 22, 2006 -- Shaklee Corporation, the number one natural nutrition company in the United States, celebrated its 50th Anniversary by launching two product lines and announc...

Source: Market Wire

Hoodia Power Pops on El Paso News  

You Can Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth And Still Lose Weight
If you're dieting, sweets are a big no-no. But what if you could lose weight with the lick of a lollipop?

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 — It sounds too good to be true. Suck on a lollipop and lose weight. But that's the claim behind Pow...

Source: News Channel 9

Nu Skin wins concession in China  

Nu Skin wins key concession in China By Lesley Mitchell

Utah's Nu Skin Enterprises plans to begin selling its line of personal-care and nutritional products door-to-door in China by November after becoming one of only two U.S. companies allowed to engage in direct selling in that coun...

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Reliv International Trades Down on Weak Results  

Reliv International (NASDAQ: RELV) traded down $3.56 to close at $6.75 as the company announced weaker than expected 2nd quarter numbers, but this was way overdone so you may see a boost up pushing the stock at least in to the mid $8 range before its said and done. ...

Source: Npros

Mannatech Reports Record Earnings  

Mannatech, Inc. Reports Record Second Quarter Earnings COPPELL, TX, Aug 09, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Mannatech, Inc. (MTEX) today reported record earnings for second quarter 2006 of $0.31 per diluted share, up 48% from second quarter 2005 earnings of $0.21 per diluted share. Pretax profit r...

Source: NPI Center

Nu Skin to enter Beijing Market  

Nu Skin expects to enter Beijing market following Shanghai direct sales approval

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Nu Skin Enterprises, a direct seller of high-end skin care products, expects to receive an operating licence in the Chinese capital this year after recently receiving approval to operate in Shang...

Source: AFX News

Isagenix in the News  

Carse Finishes Stroke Awareness Ride (8/14/06)

BILLINGS, MT – The 12-day journey Montana State-Billings men’s basketball coach Craig Carse started on August 3 came to a close on Monday in Pennsylvania. Carse set out from Billings to raise awareness for stroke victims and CardioSEAL®. His goal wa...

Source: MSU

Burnlounge Teams with Live Nation  

Live Nation Inks Deal With BurnLounge

Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - Global events organizer Live Nation has entered an exclusive agreement with digital music service BurnLounge giving the latter's VIP members preferential treatment to Live Nation'...

Source: AHN All Headline News

Shaklee Predicts Double Digit Growth  

Healthy profits lie in going green Shaklee CEO predicts 'double-digit' growth with company's launch of toxin-free products; economists not so sure

SAN FRANCISCO - Shaklee Corp. believes that by Going Green, it can produce a bumper crop of greenbacks.

The Pleasanton-based marketer of nutritional...

Source: Contra Costa Times

Shaklee Still Growing at 50  

Shaklee still growing at 50 Many scoffed at its multilevel marketing approach, but the company that sells natural supplements and cleaning supplies has its fans

Fifty years ago, during the era of synthetic fabrics, processed food and TV dinners, an Oakland chiropractor started a company to sell...

Source: SFGate

Passion Parties in Salt Lake Tribune  

At Slumber Parties, private curiosities and presentation long to meet - often Adult parties prove to have steady appeal; Hot sellers

Utah has a reputation for being strait-laced, but plenty of us apparently like to have fun in the bedroom. Jeanie Jones is a sex-toy party hostess in...

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Quixtar Announces New iCook Knifeware  

Quixtar Announces New Professional-Quality iCook Knifeware; Quixtar iCook Endorsed by Renowned Chef Jason Roberts Good cooking begins with good cutting. The new iCook™ knifeware set from Quixtar offers five, premium forged, German stainless steel knives designed by renowned knife expert Ken Oni...

Source: PR Web

Nu Skin to pay dividend  

Nu Skin to pay stockholders 10 cent dividend per share Nu Skin Enterprises said it will pay a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share to stockholders of record as of Sept. 1. The dividend will be paid Sept. 20. The announcement comes as the Provo-based maker of nutritional supp...

Source: Business Digest

Nu Skin to pay stockholder dividend  

Nu Skin to pay stockholders 10 cent dividend per share Nu Skin Enterprises said it will pay a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share to stockholders of record as of Sept. 1. The dividend will be paid Sept. 20. The announcement comes as the Provo-based maker of nutritional supp...

Source: Business Digest

Nu Skin to pay stockholder dividend  

Nu Skin to pay stockholders 10 cent dividend per share Nu Skin Enterprises said it will pay a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share to stockholders of record as of Sept. 1. The dividend will be paid Sept. 20. The announcement comes as the Provo-based maker of nutritional supp...

Source: Business Digest

Taste of home entertaining in the news  

...Silke, a stay-at-home mom, was looking for something to get her out of the house. When her friend told her about Taste of Home Entertaining, she found a way to bake her cake, serve it to friends and eat some, too.

Taste of Home Entertaining Inc. is a direct sales company that offers kitchen gad...

Source: SB Sun

Mary Kay ring new doorbells  

The cosmetics giant said it expects China to surpass the U.S. in sales in the next 10 years.

DALLAS — Hope of joining China’s growing middle class drove Xiang Jun Mei, a poor rice farmer’s daughter, to hawk Mary Kay products door-to-door and to everyone she met.

Wang Di started selling the Ameri...

Source: Rockford Register

Nikken Noted in Magnetic Therarpy Article  

Magnetic Therapy: Plausible Attraction? Long considered only a component of quack medicine, magnetic therapy has received a boost from a recent study at the Baylor College of Medicine. Is it plausible?

A double-blind study at Baylor College of Medicine, published last November in Archives of Phys...

Source: CSICOP

Herbalife Q2 Earnings Surge  

Herbalife Q2 Earnings Surge 60% Buoyed By Strong Sales - Update

(RTTNews) - Wednesday after the bell, Herbalife Ltd. (HLF | charts | news | PowerRating) announced second quarter results , reporting earnings that rose from last year, attributable to double-digit net sales growth and lower interes...

Source: Trading Markets

Nu Skin to expand for direct sales  

Nu Skin to expand for direct sales

US cosmetics firm Nu Skin is planning to recruit an army of up to 5,000 direct sellers in Shanghai by the end of this year. Expansion plans also include opening 100 service centres in the city and 40 more specialty shops across the country, taking the total to...

Source: CHINADaily

Reliv International Conference Draws 6000 to St Louis  

Reliv International's Annual Conference Draws Nearly 6,000 People to St. Louis

Company Announces Its 2006 President's Team Members Along with a New 'Mega-Bonus' Program for 2007

CHESTERFIELD, Mo., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Reliv International, Inc. (Nasdaq: RELV - News), a develop...

Source: Reliv International

Taste of Home Entertaining Parent Plans Expansion  

Reader's Digest misses profit forecasts

The Reader's Digest Association Inc. yesterday reported higher profits for its fourth quarter ending June 30 but larger losses for the fiscal year, with revenues flat overall. It was a familiar story to dissatisfied shareholders, who beat the stock down to...

Source: The Journal News

Taste of Home Entertaining 4Q Results  

Reader's Digest Association Reports 4Q Fiscal 2006 Results: Profits Improve at RD North America and RD International, Offset by Declines at Consumer Business Services and Restructuring Charges Wednesday August 2, 7:00 am ET

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Reader'...

Source: Yahoo Finance

XanGo Launches Worldwide Charitable Movement  

XanGo Goodness designed to mobilize category creator’s international resources, including over 500,000 distributors, to serve communities in need

Lehi, UT, August 1, 2006 — XanGo, LLC, recognized creator of the mangosteen nutritional supplement category, today launched XanGo Goodness, a global phi...

Source: NPI Center