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Melaleuca promotes new President of International

IDAHO FALLS — Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot announced last week that Melaleuca Senior Vice President of International Jerry Felton has been promoted to President of Melaleuca International. In this role, Felton will oversee all of Melaleuca's international operations in the 16 countries where i...

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Melaleuca Pays $2.8 Million in Employee Longevity Bonuses

$23 million paid in longevity bonuses since 2007 November 16, 2017 -- IDAHO FALLS — Melaleuca rewarded 230 employees who have reached landmark anniversaries this year by giving them $2.8 million in loyalty and longevity bonuses during the company's annual meeting. These bonuses were distributed t...

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Melaleuca Celebrates the Holidays by Filling Pantries and Donating Toys

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Dec. 20, 2013 -- Melaleuca and hundreds of its employees have been quietly spreading holiday cheer around Southeast Idaho, making the season a little brighter for children and families in need. Because of Melaleuca's charitable efforts, dozens of local families will have stock...

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Melaleuca Reaches Sales Milestone

On December 20, 2011, Melaleuca celebrated reaching $1 billion in annual revenues for the first time in its 26-year history. The company celebration was broadcast around the globe via the Internet. Melaleuca, which was founded 26 years ago, has almost 300,000 independent sales associates and empl...

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Melaleuca opens new facility in Knox County

Over the next ten years, Knox County will be gaining an estimated 500 jobs as the rapidly expanding Melaleuca operations at Forks of the River Industrial Park become stable. The Idaho-based supplier of nutritional supplements is expected to rake in an estimated $900 million in profits and plans t...

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Melaleuca Wins Court Ruling

A three-year battle between Melaleuca and a former employee has ended. Melaleuca C.E.O., Frank Vandersloot received the 34-page ruling Tuesday from the Seventh Judicial District, dismissing all remaining claims by Jeff Wasden. Wasden accused Melaleuca of slandering his name. "Fortunately, this li...

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Melaleuca Wins Ruling Against Defamation Claim

After a prolonged three year legal battle between Melaleuca and a former employee, a judge delivered a 34-page ruling on Tuesday in the Seventh Judicial District court dismissing all remaining claims by Jeff Wasden. Wasden had filed suit claiming that Melaleuce slandered his name. CEO Frank Vande...

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Melaleuca Dumps Old Vitamins

Melaleuca has dumped approximately 15 tons of vitimins into a Bonneville County landfill to make room for new and more effective supplements. Filling almost twelve dump trucks, the 10.4 million dollars worth of inventory was disposed of after Melaleuca clamined to have come up with a better way t...

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Max International Blocked from Recruiting Melaleuca Employees

A Utah-based company was issued a restraining order last week, temporarily restricting the recruitment of any past or present marketing affiliates of Melaleuca, a health and home products corporation. Max International was issued a restraining order by U.S. District Judge William Downes, as the r...

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Former Melaleuca employee ordered to pay back 240K

Jeff Wasden, the former vice president of marketing for Melaleuca Inc. has been ordered by a state judge to pay reparations amounting to over $240,000 for breaking a former agreement not to criticize Frank VanderSloot, the company president. The ruling was made by a state judge after Mr. Wasden w...

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