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1st quarter results Usana's sales drop and costs rise; earnings fall 28% Usana Health Sciences Inc. reported lower earnings for the first quarter of 2008, blaming the decrease on higher operating costs and a decline in net sales. The nutritional, personal care and weight management products comp...
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Tupperware Brands has announced a significant increase in its first quarter sales, driven partly by the strong performance of its direct sales beauty division. Overall sales grew by 19 percent for the full year to reach $543m - helped along by a 15 percent increase in the company's beauty sales and ...
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USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: USNA), a worldwide leader in science-based nutritional supplements, today announced it has signed a two-year sponsorship agreement to be the official supplement supplier of nationally ranked USA Bobsled Team Radcliff. ?I?ve done a lot of research on a variety of ...
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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 good...
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Oriflame Cosmetics said first quarter pretax profits rose 7 percent, boosted by the introduction of a new operating platform as sales soared by over 20 percent. Pretax profits, including 4.9 million euros of restructuring charges, rose to 37.9 million euros from 35.4 million, the Swedish cosmetics ...
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Herbalife Ltd. stated Thursday night its President and Chief Operating Officer did not fully complete a MBA degree as it is stated in his biography.It was confirmed by officials at California State University, Los Angeles that Gregory L. Probert was enrolled in the MBA program in the 1980's but he m...
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...The New Brunswick Securities Commission recently approved a settlement agreement with the operators of a pyramid-type investment scheme that was promoted in this province in 2006-07.James Oagles, Jeannie Tracy, Ronald Fulton and their company, Wealth Pools International LLC were named in the sett...
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A rep recently notified us that BioPerformance is back in business as BPI Worldwide. In 2007 BioPerformance and its ownders, Lowell Mims and Gustavo Romero, had assets frozen and were ordered to pay $7 million dollars in compensation to consumers and representatives. According to the press release ...
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New Delhi: Mary Kay plans to launch 20 new products, including anti-ageing range and perfumes this year, to strengthen its position in the Rs 6,000-crore Indian cosmetics market. The company would also invest close to Rs 80 crore to set up beauty centres and offices, develop its product portfolio an...
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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. today announced it will release first-quarter financial results prior to the market opening on Thursday, May 1, 2008.Truman Hunt, president and chief executive officer, will host a conference call with the investment community later that same day beginning at 11 a.m. (ET). ...
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SAN FRANCISCO?The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a prior district court ruling requiring the marketers of the Seasilver dietary supplement to pay almost $120 million for failing to comply with an earlier order to pay $3 million in consumer redress. This latest decision requires t...
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Team Mannatech athlete Hayley Wickenheiser has been ranked by Sports Illustrated as the 20th-toughest athlete in the world.Wickenheiser is one of only two women named to the Top 25 list, which was published on the Sports Illustrated Web site April 1. She keeps good company on the list of "never-say...
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Establishing the market's first-ever online televised series, XanGo, LLC distributor leaders and top executives hosted "Online INVASION 2.0" on XanGo.TV, a 30-minute magazine-style program of major announcements and distributor motivation. The second in a series of online broadcast mobilization even...
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April 16, 2008 -- MonaVie LLC (www.monavie.com), creator of the leading nutritional acai blend beverage, yesterday filed to dismiss a lawsuit brought last month by Quixtar North America, a sister company to Amway Corporation. In the court filing, MonaVie claims that the Quixtar suit is without merit...
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Practically every Fayetteville store has some sort of Earth Day display on the shelves now, which made it really easy to shop for green finds this week.I tried to narrow my picks to things that were either new to the market or now available because of mass demand.Bed Bath & Beyond has an entire row ...
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"Ding Dong, Avon's Calling" became a memorable catchphrase following the advertising campaign of the 1960s. Now it is searching for a new generation of representatives through a series of television ads which start next week. Avon, one of the world's largest direct sellers of cosmetics, operates in ...
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SALEM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SISEL International LLC (?Sizzle?) today announced they anticipate their line of liquid nutritionals, nutritional supplements, hair care, anti-aging, skin care and home care products to double in size by the end of 2008. The current line has over twenty products, with m...
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In honor of its work to help women in the state of Nevada, the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation was honored by Gov. Jim Gibbons today with a proclamation declaring April 10 as ?Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation Day? in Nevada. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation (MKACF) was started in 1996 by ...
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If you asked me to come up with a list of ways to destroy your credibility as an entrepreneur, here are two of the best ways I would come up with: associate with Mannatech (NASDAQ: MTEX), an embattled multi-level marketer, and associate with Robert Kiyosaki, the motivational author who has been expo...
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So, last night as I shoveled down a second plate of dessert (true story) at a party, I naturally began complaining about not looking like THIS. That led to a conversation about the chocolate Weight Loss Chews. Yep, I knew my friend Angela was a rep for the Arbonne skin care line (I've picked up a bo...