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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...

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Amway To Close Birthplace Of Nutrilite

Carl Rehnborg began experimenting with vitamins in the 1940s, and established operations at one of Amway's oldest and most historically significant facilities in 1954 at the 600-acre facility. The plant has since been marked for closure by the company, as part of a plan to divest the building ove...

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Amway Global Number One In Sales

Amway Global Independent Business Owners (IBOs) have once again propelled the company to the top spot in online Health & Beauty (H&B) sales. According to Internet Retailer's annual Top 500 Guide to the web, Amway Global is ranked first in the Health & Beauty category for the seventh consecutive y...

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Amway Celebrates AOF Day

The Amway Opportunity Foundation is Amway's ongoing effort toward a social cause, as the CSR arm of Amway India Enterprises Pvt Ltd celebrated AOF day on Thursday with children of Kohima Orphanage & Destitute Home. With May 5 1998 being the date that Amway engaged India, Amway officially refers t...

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Amway Sprouts Gardens With Boys And Girls Club

Amway Global announced today that it will partner with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to help build seven community gardens across the United States. The Amway Global Positive Sprouts project mobilizes volunteers and incorporates the gardening expertise of the Green Education Foundation (GEF) to t...

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Amway Endowment Enters Third Year At University

A University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) student is the fourth scholarship recipient of an endowment established by Amway to support the study of demand sales forecasting at the University. Esco Brackett, a junior from Athens, Tenn., is the winner of the 2010 Amway Endowed Scholarship in Sales ...

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Heirs Of Amway Pledge 22 Million To Kennedy Center

Betsy and Dick DeVos including the son of Amway Corp.'s co-founder, have pledged over $22 million to expand training of U.S. arts administrators at the John F. Kennedy Center. The president of the center, Michael M. Kaiser, said that the gift will aid in acquiring specialized training for arts ad...

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Amway Press Release

Amway Corp. today announced a series of changes to its supply chain structure aimed at improving the global direct selling leader's competitive position. "More than 80 percent of our customers buy our products outside the United States, and Amway needs to update its supply chain to reflect that,"...

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US Pavilion Sponsored By Amway At World Expo

When the Shanghai crowd visited the 2010 World Expo at the U.S. pavilion, the audience saw a video word from Amway Corp that played reputation and pride-building messages according to Dana Boals, vice president of global Amway brands. She explained that Amway loves having a presence there, and th...

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Amway Co-Founders Pledge 5 Million To MSU Medical School

Richard and Helen DeVos, co-founders of Amway have recently pledged to match up to $5 million in donations for Michigan State University's Human Medicine building in downtown Grand Rapids. Once the brand new $90 million Secchia Center on Michigan Avenue opens, Michigan State University will be mo...

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