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Amway bought a controlling interest in Nutrilite in 1972 [25] and full ownership in 1994. International expansion Amway expanded to Australia in 1971, to parts of Europe in 1973, to parts of Asia in 1974, to Japan in 1979, to Latin America in 1985, to Thailand in 1987, to China in 1995, [ 26 ] to Africa in 1997, to India and Scandinavia in 1998 ...
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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 ...
Jay Van Andel (June 3, 1924 – December 7, 2004) was an American billionaire businessman, best known as co-founder of the Amway Corporation, along with Richard DeVos. [ 1 ] He also served as chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from 1979 to 1980.
In that year Amway Australia became part of the publicly listed company, Amway Asia Pacific, and by 1998 sales had reached A$198 million, [3] [4] with more than 100,000 distributors marketing over 2,500 products. [1] In 2000 Amway Asia Pacific returned to private ownership by New AAP Limited, a Bermuda corporation. [5] [6]
Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. [1] (March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team.
Network Twentyone, is a training and support organization [1] for distributors working with the Amway business. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1990 by Jim and Nancy Dornan, distributors with Amway, originally to support their Amway network in the United States and Australia. [5]
Market America was founded in 1992 by former Amway distributor James Howard Ridinger and his wife Loren Ridinger. [3] [4] The company is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina and employed over 800 employees as of 2016. [1]