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Amway Pushing for US Comeback

Amway hopes its once well-known name will help revive the direct sales company's brand in North America. The Ada, Mich.-based firm dropped the name in the U.S. and Canada in 2000 after becoming part of Alticor Inc. It is pumping millions of dollars into market research and national ads, and plans...

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Amway to Hike Prices in 2009

Direct selling FMCG company Amway India will increase the prices of all its products by 3-5 per cent in early 2009 even as commodity and crude prices are witnessing a sharp decline. Commodity prices and crude prices have declined upto 70 per cent from their peak prices in June, July earlier this ...

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Amway Launches Energy Drinks

Amway India Enterprises, a leading direct selling company on Tuesday launched two energy drinks - Amway XL energy drinks and Amway XL energy bars here. The Amway XL energy drinks come in two flavours of citrus blast and tropical blast. Amway XL energy bars are available in apple cinnamon and frui...

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Amway to Expand Distribution Network

Amway (M) Holdings Bhd plans to expand its distribution network this year to widen its presence in the country, said executive director Paul Yee. Amway, which offers more than 200 products, currently has 13 distribution centres in Malaysia and Brunei, and some 188,000 core distributors. 'Amway ex...

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Amway India Targets Masses

Faced with the challenge of slowing growth and the threat of legal trouble to its business in Andhra Pradesh, Amway India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based direct seller Amway Corporation, is looking to reverse its fortune with the launch of a range of low-priced fast moving consumer g...

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Amway Taking Back Its Name

ALTICOR'S GLOBAL DIRECT-SALES UNIT, AMWAY, is undergoing a brand revamp in 2008 that will be completed in 2009, the company's 50th anniversary. The company, which since 1999 has made Quixtar North America its online brand ID--and de facto brand--in this country, is bringing back Amway as the glob...

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Amway to Capitalize on Two New Products

AMWAY (M) Holdings Bhd expects single-digit growth in revenue for the year ending Dec 31, 2008, given the cautious mood amid economic weaknesses in the US, according to executive director Paul Yee. 'The US and global economies are seeing weaknesses while the domestic market faces inflationary pre...

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Amway Warns of Bogus Internet Charity Scam

Amway Corporation (Quixtar in the U.S. and Canada) has discovered an internet scam that uses a bogus Amway charity as a lure. Amway cautions individuals to be on the lookout for e-mails from a group calling itself the "Amway Children Charity Foundation". Please be advised that this is not an Amwa...

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Amway Founder Makes Forbes List

Amway co-founder Rich DeVos made the Forbes list of richest people in the world (again), coming in at 288th. So did Fred Meijer "and family," ranked 605th. But those were the only two of West Michigan's ultra-rich people to turn up on Forbes' radar. The New York-based magazine released its list T...

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Amway Lawsuit Dismissed

A federal judge has tossed out a massive antitrust action brought against Amway Corp. by several Missouri distributors just before the case was set to go to trial in Springfield. U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr granted Amway's motion for summary judgment last week, abruptly ending — at least ...

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