What do you now about (Sc)Amway ?
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Thanks for asking! I am a business librarian, so I will consult the "Business and Company Resource Database" to give you the complete company history:\n\n1949: Jay Van Andel and Richard M. DeVos form a partnership to distribute vitamins for the Nutrilite Co. of California. \n\n1959 Sept.: Amway Sales Corp. and Amway Distributors Association are formed to help the company's distributors. With assistance from their wives, Van Andel is the creative mind behind company sales literature along with supervising product manufacturing, and DeVos sparks the interest of probable distributors. \n\n1959: Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos found the American Way Association, later renamed the Amway Distributors Association. A biodegradable liquid organic cleaner serves as the company's first product. \n\n1960: Sales top $500,000. Amway introduces S-A-8, a new laundry detergent. \n\n1961: Amway sales top $1 million for the first time. \n\n1962: Sales double and hit the $2 million mark. The company expands into Canada. The first Ruby Direct Distributor award is given, recognizing distributor's sales milestones. \n\n1964: Sales reach $10 million. Amway merges three separate divisions and creates the Amway Corp. Van Andel serves as chairman, and DeVos acts as president. \n\n1965: The company sponsors magazine, newspaper, radio, and TV advertising. \n\n1966: Another sales milestone is reached and the first Double Diamond "DD" is awarded. \n\n1968: Amway distributes its Personal Shoppers Catalog, which contains other companies' products. The firm has 80,000 distributors selling over 150 different products. \n\n1969 July: Fire destroys the plant responsible for the manufacturing of Amway's aerosol products. \n\n1969: A Triple Diamond sales milestone is achieved. Amway finds itself under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission who claim the company is involved in an illegal pyramid scheme. \n\n1970: The first Crown DD, one level above the Triple Diamond, is given. \n\n1971: Amway builds a plant in Australia, its first plant overseas. \n\n1972: Amway buys Nutrilite Products, Inc., the company where Van Andel and De Vos first worked together. \n\n1973: The company begins new operations in the United Kingdom. \n\n1974: Amway introduces its products to the Asian market in Hong Kong. \n\n1975: West Germany serves as the sight for Amway's newest operation. The FTC files formal charges against Amway. \n\n1976: Asian operations continue to grow with the addition of a new Amway plant in Malaysia. \n\n1977 May: Hearings begin for the FTC charges. \n\n1977: European operations continue with the addition of a plant in France; the first Crown Ambassador DD is given for reaching the highest possible sales milestone; Amway buys the Mutual Broadcasting System. Van Andel and De Vos introduce their eight children to Amway and begin preparing them for take-over of the family business. \n\n1978: Amway opens operations in the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland. The company buys a resort and hotel complex in the British Virgin Islands for the personal use of Amway distributors. \n\n1979: Amway opens a plant in Japan. The Federal Trade Commission decides Amway is not and never was involved in any type of illegal pyramid scheme. \n\n1980: Continuing international expansion, Amway builds new plants in Switzerland and Belgium. \n\n1982: Van Andel chairs the Netherlands-American Bicentennial Commission. \n\n1983: The company pleads guilty to the charge of not paying millions of dollars in customs duties goods imported from the United States to Canada and pays a $25 million Canadian fine in an out-of-court settlement. \n\n1984: Seven of Van Andel's and De Vos' children hold administrative positions. William W. Nicholson becomes a COO. Amway celebrates its 75th anniversary. \n\n1985: MCI asks Amway to market its long-distance telephone services. Due to lack of success, the company sells all of the Mutual Broadcasting
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Find people who have lived there and ask them how it is.  Search the WWW for accounts by people who have lived there.  If possible, go there and check it out before moving there.\nPersonally, I prefer living in Kent, east of the Medway River.  Lived there for 2 years - it was fantastic!
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It doesn't appear to be.  It's trading as an OTC stock - QUTEF.PK - last close (as of this answer).  It appears that they bought out SGI.  Looking at employment opportunities I get the impression that they don't really care that much about  their employees.  They don't give any information about benefits, work environment, etc.  Maybe it's a British thing.  Good luck.
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Pretty crappy. After the Enron and Worldcom scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley act has made things a heck of a lot more difficult. There is so much paperwork its not funny. You've also got people looking at large companies for being monopolies (Microsoft a few years back) and for unethical business practices including cheap foreign labor. All in all, not so great.\n\nEDIT\nAs for how it affects me today...\nI think that the move in business has been even more towards customer centric marketing as well as owner centric ideals: give the customer what they desire while at the same time upholding whatever values your brand stands for and keep ethical practices. I think that anti-trust stuff is a joke personally but thats just me.
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it might be passe to suggest looking into this industry.\n...but those who've failed before usually jumped on the wrong company...or at the wrong time...or associated with the wrong leadership / co-workers.\n\nAvon...Amway, NuSkin, Unicity...\nthese are old-school and have / are experiencing market saturation.\n\nif you / your friend is open to the industry, it might be worth your time to check out http://www.teaminmotion.net/guest.html\n\n- "legitimate companies" have been suggested as a possible consideration in self-help books by famous authors\n\n- transparent profit/loss figures.\n(only a few trusted companies in the industry are publicly traded - this is one of them)\n\n- process has been proven and is easily duplicated.\n(its so easy...no "sales" is required!)\n\n- virtually limitless income.\n(NO more breakaways, volume flushing, level cut-offs!)\n\n- all traditional admin / remuneration / registration processes already available online AND in Real-Time (to-the-minute).\n(most competitors are still fiddling around with implementing such a system!)\n\ni.e. work with anybody from anywhere in the world from any location you wish\n\n-> check out the website, & if you're interested, get back in touch with me by clicking on my Nick on the left.\notherwise no response is required.\n\npeace.
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I went to a school called CDS in Woodford, VA.  They offer financial help.  She (the owner) even paid for hotel rooms for the out of state students (when I was there, there were a lot of students there from DC).\n\nCDS is like 45 minutes North of Richmond, VA.  \n\nOf course some trucking companies like Schneider, C.R. England, and PAM Transport will pay for you to go.  The only reason why I ruled that option out is because I did not want to be obligated to one of these big OTR companies, since I have to do short hauls (local runs) right now.\n\nLM
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They did not file bankruptcy, they merged with another comapny:\n\nBy Jason Spits. Publication Date: 27 February 2003 \n\nAustralia's Inscorp Financial Services and Now Financial Services are to merge. The resulting company will be called Financial Services Partners (FSP). Fifty per cent of the firm will be owned by its advisers, with the other half owned by FSP's group of companies. FSP has half-owned Now Financial and Inscorp for a few years. The merged group will have roughly 250 advisers. It will be headed by Geoff Rimmer, the current CEO of Now Financial. The chairman will be Tim d'Emden, the current chairman of Inscorp. The two groups have $A1.5 billion in funds under management.
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Man, what is this world coming to. \n\nSubway is getting everyone to hop on ship to be their spokeperson for their company... Oh man...
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Never heard of them and that is probably not a good thing.  If you have good credit and a clean driving record, I would stick with one of the quality companies: Allstate / State Farm / Farmers / Travelers / Nationwide.
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It is complicated, but there is a decent description at http://library.kentlaw.edu/resources/Self_Guided_Library_Tours/librarytour1--05.pdf#search='am%20jur%20cjs'\n(pg 2-3 have basic info)
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Let me ask you a question. If I could show you something that made absolute total sense, where you didn't have to stock, sell or deliver products to your friends, there was a fully refundable membership fee that you couldn't loose; yet; you could add an additional $20-30,000 to your income this year with many people reaching a six to seven figure income, if it wasn't Amway or any multi-level scheme... would you spend 30-40 minutes with me and have a look? Contact me through my 360 page and I will show you. Here is the tax info I use.
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The first person here warned you about having to pay them first.  Of course you have to pay them first, you are purchasing a business and no one gets a business for nothing.\nAs for Quixtar...aka....Amway, there are many pros and cons.  One of the pros is the product is of very good quality..con: Many similar products are available everywhere for the same price or less.\nThe thing you have to consider here is your market.   Most people run for the hills when they hear Amway, even though they were a pioneer in the industry.  Quixtar is exactly the same only with a new name.  They have developed a "cult-like" reputation by asking people to attend their many meetings and not telling them up front what it is.  People don't like that.\nThe other thing is that their ship has sailed...long ago.  Gone are the days where the baby boomers were raising their families and willing to fill their houses with products that they bought from their own "store".  Most of the boomers are empty-nesters now and searching for health and anti-aging.  They don't want to pester everyone they know into buying a bunch of products that they probably will no longer use.  The company experienced hyper-growth many years ago and they are definately not up to date on the new marketing methods that are far more successful.  The new age tools just aren't there.  Their compensation plan is very outdated as well.  If you do comparisons you will find this to be true.\nIf you are looking for Network Marketing companies that ask for a much smaller investment, a better comp plan, and a product that people are searching for now, then I suggest you do a check and compare.\nThey are definately out there.
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If I buy $200 of stuff from Amway this month, I'll get a 3% bonus check (3% of $200 = $6). If I share the opportunity with nine others, and we each buy $200 of stuff from Amway this month, they each were responsible for $200 and will get $6, but I'm responsible for $2000, moving me to the 12% level. I get $240. However, I'm responsible for paying the bonuses of the people right below me - $54 - so I keep $186. I make more because I did more, I found nine people who wanted to buy at a discount and get a bonus for doing it. After I reach the 25% bonus level there are other bonuses that kick in, but they're all based on the volume of product flow, not on signing people up or having lots of people (Bob Queenan, personal correspondence). [April 7, 2004. Gary Elliot Murway writes: Please correct: distributors/IBOs no longer need to pay downline bonuses. Quixtar can pay each IBO directly.]\n\nbelow link for more info.
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No. It is an offshoot or maybe a name change of a legitimate 50 year old US company. If it was a fraudulent business it would have been shut down years ago. By the way the former name of this company was AMWAY. Ever heard of it? The original CEO and primary stockholder is Rich Devos. He is the owner of the "Orlando Magic" NBA basketball franchise. This is all as legitimate as any company in America.
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First off, what are you being counseled about? Hopefully not stalking. We need some insight.
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I thought montgomery ward went bankrupt!!!!\n\nU mean they still exist?  I cut up my wards credit card for nothing??????\n\nLOL
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Check out their history notes:\nOur Company\n \nSafeway, the Start-Up\nIn 1915, M.B. Skaggs, an ambitious young man in the small Idaho town of American Falls, purchased a grocery store from his father. M.B.'s business strategy, to give his customers value and to expand by keeping a narrow profit margin, proved spectacularly successful. By 1926 he was operating 428 Skaggs stores in 10 states. M.B. almost doubled the size of his business that year when he merged his company with 322 Safeway (formerly Selig) stores. Two years later MB listed Safeway on the New York Stock Exchange. MB did not let the difficulties of the Great Depression dilute his pioneering focus on value for customers. In the 1930's Safeway introduced produce pricing by the pound, open dating on perishables to assure freshness, nutritional labeling, even some of the first parking lots.