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The Canadien Distributor for Sleepees, Our World Network, was sued in Canada after Health Canada found their product to contain traces of prescription drug Estazolam. Estazolam relaxes the body and helps you sleep but it's also addictive and there are withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking it. Lawyer Clint Docken fi...
Read full storyTupperware Brands Corp. (TUP | charts | news | PowerRating) Declares 0.22 Dividend, Record Date 09/12/07 P.S. TUP has received a PowerRating of 5. TradingMarkets PowerRatings are a proprietary stock rating method which ranks stocks on a scale of 1-10. The higher the rating, the greater the one week historical gain h...
Read full storyHerbalife Ltd., which sells nutritional supplements, said Thursday its board of directors authorized an increase of $150 million to its share repurchase plan. The increase raises the total authorized amount of shares available for repurchase to $450 million. To finance a portion of the program, Herbalife (nyse: HLF ...
Read full storyReliv International, Inc. ,a maker of soy-based nutritional supplements, said more than 5,000 independent distributors from 11 countries attended its international conference here from Aug. 9-11. Highlights of the conference included: -- A charitable event that raised more than $180,000 for the Reliv Kalogris Founda...
Read full storyThe Team of Destiny may have had its destiny fulfilled, but not in the intended manner. According to a press release and several news reports, a Michigan judge has ruled in favor of Quixtar on two of the three lawsuits brought before them by former employees and associates. Orinn Woodward and Chris Brady were the he...
Read full storySam Caster has resigned as chief executive of embattled multilevel marketer Mannatech Inc., the company announced Tuesday. He will remain as chairman of the board. Caster's resignation is the second major move within the Coppell-based company since it was charged with engaging in deceptive selling practices in a sui...
Read full storyNEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- deltathree, Inc. (Nasdaq:DDDC), a leading provider of SIP-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions for service providers and consumers worldwide, announced that tomorrow Market America, an online shopping and One-to-One Marketing company, will launch its new Voit...
Read full storyTupperware Brands said that sales and profits across its three divisions, including cosmetics, were above expectations, boosted by a particularly strong performance in developing and emerging markets. But although profit increase for the company as a whole was strong, profits for the cosmetic division was hit by res...
Read full storyMAKUHARI, Japan (AFP) - The predominantly male crowd, perusing shelf upon shelf of gadgets, fetish DVDs and costumes, would have been even more nervous had they noticed that a few of the booths aimed to increase sexual pleasure for -- not with -- women. Japan has a major sex toy industry, estimated to be worth some ...
Read full storyWe are writing this letter to express our concern with the article 'Most people won't get their money back', by Helen Malmgren, which appeared in the July 12, 2007 issue of National Business Review. Unfortunately, this article contained several misrepresentations of the facts and outright false statements that deser...
Read full storyLEHI, UT- Aug. 1, 2007- XanGo, LLC, recognized creator and market leader of the mangosteen supplement category, was honored for its latest mangosteen research at the 70th annual natural products trade show, Natural Marketplace 2007, in Las Vegas. The Natural Products Association awarded first place to the team led b...
Read full storyAnother company has lent its support to the Coalition to Preserve DSHEA, thereby boosting the interest group's clout in Washington. The maker of mangosteen juice, Xango, has joined the coalition's growing list of members to protect the regulations that oversee the dietary supplement industry under the 1994 Dietary S...
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