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Equinox International was a multi-level marketing company founded in 1991 and headed by Bill Gouldd. [1] In 1996, Equinox was listed #1 on Inc Magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States.
Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing [1] or pyramid selling, [2] [3] [4] is a controversial [4] and sometimes illegal marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or ...
The DSA serves as a public relations and lobbying group acting on behalf of its member companies. [3] [5] The DSA played a role in petitioning the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to exempt multi-level marketing companies from consumer protection regulations outlined in the FTC's 2006 proposed Business Opportunity Rule, encouraging people to write 17,000 form letters complaining about the rule ...
Direct selling is a business model that involves a party buying products from a parent organization and selling them directly to customers. It can take the form of either single-level marketing (in which a direct seller makes money purely from sales) and multi-level marketing (in which the direct seller may earn money from both direct sales to customers and by sponsoring new direct sellers and ...
In 1987 American Can changed its name to Primerica Corporation, [18] with Gerald Tsai as CEO, the first Chinese American to lead a member of the Dow Jones Industrials. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In December 1988, Sanford Weill 's Commercial Credit acquired Primerica Corporation for $1.54 billion, retaining the Primerica name.
International Heritage Inc. (IHI) was an American pyramid scheme and MLM company. The company was founded in 1995 by Stanley H. Van Etten, Larry G. Smith and Claude William Savage, and started with marketing and sales of luxury items such as jewelry and golf equipment. In reality, the products were almost exclusively traded by the company's own ...
Amway North America (formerly known as Quixtar North America) is an American worldwide multi-level marketing (MLM) company, founded 1959 in Ada, Michigan, United States. It is privately owned by the families of Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel through Alticor which is the holding company for businesses including Amway, Amway Global, Fulton Innovation, Amway Hotel Corporation, Hatteras Yachts ...