New Amway Global IBOAI board members elected

New Board Members and Officers Elected

Congratulations to the new Directors of the IBOAI Board: Glen Baker, Mike Bundy, John Crowe, Bert Gulick, Pedro Lizardi, and Doyle Yager. Their terms will run from January 1, 2009, until December 31, 2011. Glen, Mike, John, Bert, Pedro, and Doyle replace the Directors whose terms are set to expire at the end of 2008. Newly elected to the MAC (Marketing Advisory Committee) are Jennie Belle Crowe and Patsy Lizardi, whose terms will run from January 1, 2009, until December 31, 2011. Beginning January 1, 2009, new Officers serving your Board will be Bob Andrews, Chairman, and Steve Woods, Vice Chairman. Watch for more information on the 2009 Board as the end of 2008 approaches. We are excited about a great year ahead!

Miss America blogs about Amway's Wellness Initiative

Miss America 2008, Kirsten Haglund, has written a nice blog post promoting the new Inspire Wellness website developed by Amway and the YMCA.

Miss Haglund looks pretty healthy to me, so take her advice and check out http://www.inspirewellness.com

Amway Global presents Tina Turner Live concerts

from Amway Watch -

ADA, Mich., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Amway Global today announced that it will be the Presenting Sponsor for legendary, Grammy-winning singer TinaTurner's upcoming North American tour, promoted nationally by AEG Live. Amway Global Presents Tina Turner Live in Concert will span at least 36 concerts in more than 20 U.S. and Canadian cities, beginning October 1 in Kansas City. This will be the first tour in eight years for Turner, an eight-time Grammy winner with seven top-10 singles who has sold nearly 200 million albums.

As presenting sponsor, the Amway Global name will appear on tickets, advertisements, and signage at all North American concert venues.

"We are thrilled to be associated with an artist of such high caliber and broad appeal as Ms. Turner," says Steve Lieberman, Amway Global's Managing Director. "A rock tour is not what most people would expect from Amway Global and that's the whole point. There are so many things people don't realize about our business, like the fact that we're the number one online health and beauty retailer. Sponsoring Tina Turner's fall tour is just one example of how we are stepping up our efforts to build awareness for our business and who we are today."

The sponsorship is part of a larger Amway Global investment to help raise public awareness of its business, opportunity, and products in North America. The company currently operates as Quixtar North America/Amway Global but is transitioning to the Amway Global name by 2009. To support this brand transition and also build awareness for the company's flagship Nutrilite vitamin and supplement brand and Artistry skin care and cosmetics brands, the company is investing in a multi-million dollar advertising campaign and high-profile sponsorships, such as the Tina Turner tour.

A recording artist for more than 40 years, Tina Turner appeals to music fans across generations and has career longevity that is rare in any industry, especially the music business. Her concerts are typically sellouts, which is why she has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history.

For more information about "Amway Global Presents Tina Turner Live inConcert" please visit www.TinaTurnerLive.com.

Quixtar launches TV campaign tonight

Quixtar/Amway global launches a new nationwide TV ad campaign tonight in the US. More info on The Truth About Amway and Amway Watch

Amway Diamonds - check 'em out on Amway Wiki

Did you know that virtually all North American Amway and Quixtar Diamonds have been listed on Amway Wiki?

There's been hundreds and hundreds of them!

Check it out Amway Wiki - Amway North America has many of the qualifiers listed by the year they appeared in the Amagram. Amway Wiki - United States has pretty much all the Amway and Quixtar US qualifiers, listed by highest pin qualification, and Amway Wiki - Canada does the same for Amway and Quixtar in Canada.

Quixtar/Amway Global National Spotlight Tour

Starting next month in Los Angeles, Quixtar /Amway Global is apparently beginning a "tour" of the US and Canada, with 2 day fairs presenting the products and business opportunity.

So far there's been little promotion of the fairs - anyone heard anything?

Fred Harteis returns to Amway/Quixtar?

Amway/Quixtar Double Diamond's Fred & Linda Harteis have reportedly admitted they made a mistake following TEAM and have been welcomed back into the Amway fold. The www.fredharteis.com website no longer has his Quixtar resignation and former articles promoting Quixtar are back.

More news and discussion on Get the Facts - The Truth About Amway

Quixtar Sales 2007 - $1.072 Billion

ADA, Mich., Feb. 15, 2008 - Quixtar Inc. today announced fiscal 2007 sales of $1.072 billion, the fifth consecutive year in which the company surpassed the billion-dollar mark. The results represented a slight decline from the previous year's sales of $1.12 billion, which were the best in Quixtar's nine-year history.

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Amway & Quixtar: New combined logos revealed

The new logos to be used in the transformation from Quixtar to Amway are posted over on www.thetruthaboutamway.com

Crown Ambassadors Janz and Schmidt move to Network TwentyOne

I've now received confirmed news from multiple sources that Canadian Crown Ambassadors Jim & Sharon Janz and their downline, Crown Ambassadors Bob & Joyce Schmidt, as well as at least one other Diamond have moved their organisations from Jim & Margee Floor's International Network Associates (INA) to Jim & Nancy Dornan's Network TwentyOne. The move from INA is apparently amicable and with Jim Floor's best wishes.

This follows the merger of International Connection into Network TwentyOne back in September and is probably just the start of more mergers between now and Quixtar's August 2008 deadline for BSM companies to become accredited or risk their affiliated IBOs not receiving the discretionary QBI bonuses.

While hugely successful in international Amway markets, Network TwentyOne has been a relatively small player in the North American market. These mergers and the development of "second generation" leaders in North America (such as Jim & Nancy Dornan's son and daughter-in-law, Emerald's David & Jules Dornan and Crowns Bob & Terry Andrews' son and daughter-in-law Cale & Aura Andrews) indicates that Network TwentyOne North America is headed for some exciting times.

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Network 21 launches a YouTube channel

Following on from the QuixtarPR, AmwayBrandComms and AlticorCorpComm YouTube channels, IBO support organization Network TwentyOne has now followed suite, venturing on to YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/n21corp

At present there's only one video up, which is the following greeting from Rich DeVos to attendees at N21's recent North American Weekend Conference. I look forward to seeing what else appears.

(more on http://www.thetruthaboutamway.com)

TEAM vs Quixtar: CASE DISMISSED!!

From Alticor Media blog -

California: Case dismissed

We received official word from California federal court this afternoon that Woodward et al v. Quixtar has been dismissed.

The dismissal deals a severe blow to Orrin Woodward’s federal class-action legal attack. Woodward and other plaintiffs cynically claimed that Quixtar was an illegal pyramid scheme in an attempt to avoid their contractual obligations, embarrass the company and damage its IBOs. The company adamantly denied the charges and noted that a Michigan court had already ordered the plaintiffs to arbitrate their claims.

This is a major victory, and we are grateful that the judge agreed with our arguments in the case.

In his ruling, Feess noted that “the Michigan court has already enjoined Plaintiffs from violating the covenants not to compete and not to solicit and sent the case to arbitration.” He later added, “[T]he Court agrees with the Michigan court and believes the parties’ arbitration agreement is valid and binding.

“[T]he court GRANTS Quixtar’s motion to dismiss on declaratory relief abstention grounds and the matter is hereby DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”

Discuss this article on the forums. (17 posts)

TEAM vs Quixtar: Arbitration enforced?

There's some hints on the TEAM forum run by TEAM's PR firm, Ashton Partners, that the judge in the TEAM vs Quixtar "class-action" lawsuit in California has enforced Quixtar's Arbitration claims. Some quotes -

As the court case is in arbitration, and it is in Quixtar's best interest to drag it out as long as possible, you may find that a decision from arbitration could take longer than the six months that it would take to resign and follow the existing non-compete.

and later from the same poster -

I too have received my, "The purpose of this letter is to confirm that your independent business has been deleted from our files." statement from Quixtar; unfortunately, I will not be free as soon as you unless Chris and Orrin are successful before March 10th. I will be truly free about two weeks later! I waited until after the California case was sent to arbitration.

There's been no official comments on the case for quite some time, though various TEAM blogs keep appearing and keep highlighting various affidavit's from the case. Curiously the affidavit's often seem to make TEAM's case worse, but the bloggers ignore this. I've tried querying them in their comments, but they've turned on "moderation" and none of my questions are appearing.

Anyone know the story, let us know!
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TEAM vs Quixtar: Haugen and Wilson withdraw from lawsuit

The Alticor Media Blog is reporting that former Quixtar Double Diamond Randy Haugen and former Quixtar Diamond Don Wilson have withdrawn from the Team lawsuit against Quixtar in California. Including the initial withdrawal of Fred Harteis, that's now three "major players" who have withdrawn from the suit. The remaining plaintiffs are -

Orrin Woodward, Chris Brady, Billy Florence, Chuck Goetschel, Tim Marks, Kirk Birtles, James Martin, Aron Radosa, David Brandy, Benjamin Dickie, Bruce Gilbank, Michael Martenson, and Chuck Cullen

I've so far only found one response on the various Team blogs and forums. That response was on the Ashton Partners run forum at forums.freetheibo.com -

I wouldn't worry about it too much

Hmmm .... well, no one can accuse Team of failing to imbue their IBOs with positive thinking!

Discuss this article on the forums. (27 posts)

Network 21 North America Pursuing Quixtar Accreditation

the truth about amway and quixtar site has a letter from Network 21 founder Jim Dornan to N21 leader's and IBOs. it begins -

Dear Network 21 leaders and IBO's,

As most of you are aware, the company is continuing in their efforts to transform our great business into an even more powerful opportunity. The announcements of new products and a consumer focus, the new financial incentives totalling over $60 million dollars per year, the extensive investments in training and advertising ($200 million), as well as the on-going efforts to address issues regarding BSM/accreditation, and the proper positioning of such to assure maximum profitability of each IBO......all should lead to a wonderful future.

read more on the site - www.thetruthaboutamway.com

Quixtar launched SimplyNutrilite

Fantastic new products from Quixtar, check them out at www.simplynutrilite.com!

Then come and chat about them at the Amway Facts, Myths, News and Views Forums

Quixtar University Launched

Quixtar University, available at www.quixtaruniversity.com, has now been launched for all Quixtar Independent Business Owners. The site provides video training, PDF files and wizards to help IBOs. At present there are two areas of study available -

Basic Business Skills
Product Expertise

More info available on Get the Facts - the truth about amway and quixtar

TEAM - FreeTheIBO? No - UseTheIBO

Last week I commented on the fact that I and many other people had been banned from commenting on the TEAM forums at forums.freetheibo.info. Initially I was just banned from my particular internet address, so I simply used another one to log in and ask why I'd been banned. I'd posted nothing inflammatory. The reply? My account and all the posts I'd made were deleted! Other folk have reported the exact same thing.

So much for "freedom".

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Quixtar vs TEAM - A Granholm Connection?

First of all I'll say up front that if I was an American (I'm not) I'd probably be a registered Democrat, and I'm grateful that, despite the founding families well-know support for the Republican Party, the corporations official position is that politics shouldn't be promoted in conjunction with the business. I'm even more grateful that my LOA abides by that rule. It's a policy that's being given some much needed teeth in the Quixtar Accreditation process.



However -s omething interesting struck my eye after doing some further research on today's Quixtar vs TEAM rulings. Many of the new reports include something like the following -

A statement released by Chris DeWitt on behalf of the distributors indicated they plan to continue their fight. "Some very brave IBOs have blown the whistle on Quixtar's illegal business practices. This is just one small skirmish in a very long and involved battle. In the end the IBOs will prevail." (woodtv.com)

After reading that I thought I'd go hunting for Chris DeWitt's statement. So what did I do? Naturally enough, I googled "Chris DeWitt Quixtar"



And didn't that find something interesting ... Lots and lots of links to news stories about the DeVos vs Granholm Michigan Governor's race, quoting

"Granholm campaign spokesman Chris DeWitt"

DeWitt is quoted numerous times disparging Amway and Quixtar in support of Governor Granholm. Funnily enough, last week a thread on the TEAM Forums likened Quixtar to Democrats. This would come as an enormous surprise to the DeVos family I'm sure!



Probably all just coincidence ... but interesting nevertheless ....



Oh ... and I never did find the statement, can any TEAM members help out with the statement? Or info on the DeWitt connection?




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Amway: The Missing Partnership?

The following text is from a chapter headed The Other Partnership in Charles Paul Conn's 1985 book Promises to Keep: The Amway Phenomenon and How It Works. It will probably get me shot by the copyright police, but I think it's worthwhile reading to provide some context for some of the challenges facing Amway and Quixtar around the world. I think the words speak for themselves.

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