Quixtar is pleased to announce that NUTRILITE® Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables supplements are now Kosher and Halal certified. Muslim and Jewish Independent Business Owners (IBOs) and customers can benefit from the value of NUTRILITE Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables without straying from their religious beliefs.

ADA, Mich. (PRWEB) May 18, 2007 — Quixtar is pleased to announce that NUTRILITE® Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables supplements are now Kosher and Halal certified. Muslim and Jewish Independent Business Owners (IBOs) and customers can benefit from the value of NUTRILITE Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables without straying from their religious beliefs.

NUTRILITE Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables supplements capture crucial phytonutrients from natural fruits, vegetables, and plants that are equal to the amount found in 10+ servings. According to a report by a leading medical journal in 2003, regular consumption of fruits and vegetables is essential for optimal health. Phytonutrients, like those found in NUTRILITE Concentrated Fruits & Vegetables, have also been shown to have many beneficial effects on the body.

Obtaining kosher or halal certification requires inspection and monitoring by appointed representatives from these communities. By implementing practices that follow their approved processes and observing rules concerning various ingredients, NUTRILITE is able to offer Jewish and Muslim Quixtar IBOs and their clients a wider range of supplement choices that comply with their religious requirements or dietary preferences.

Kosher practices are based on Jewish dietary laws that require strict adherence to rules for ingredients and processes by which products are manufactured. Even the equipment used to manufacture products must be supervised by a rabbi. There are more than 10 million kosher consumers in North America.

Halal practices are based on Muslim dietary laws. “Halal” is an Arabic word meaning “lawful” or “permitted.” More than 9 million practicing Muslims in North America seek halal-certified products. Quixtar is proud to expand their nutritional offerings to serve customers who follow Halal laws.

Quixtar currently offers a number of Halal and Kosher certified dietary supplement and food products through the Nutrilite, TRIM ADVANTAGE™ and XS™ Energy brand lines. All Quixtar products are available exclusively through their Independent Business Owners.

About Quixtar
Quixtar Inc., a subsidiary of Alticor Inc., is a business opportunity company that offers entrepreneurs the ability to have a web-based business of their own. Through Quixtar’s Independent Business Ownership Plan, individuals are rewarded for product sales resulting from their business-building efforts.

Since 1999, Independent Business Owners powered by Quixtar have generated more than $6.8 billion in sales, earning in excess of $2.2 billion in bonuses and other incentives. Their efforts have made Quixtar the number one retailer in the online Health & Beauty category based on sales, and 20th among all e-commerce sites, according to Internet Retailer’s “Top 500 Guide.”

Based near Grand Rapids, Mich., Quixtar currently supports independent businesses in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and various trust territories and independent island nations in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Caribbean Sea. Quixtar Canada Corp. headquarters are located in London, Ont., Canada.

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Move over Red Bull, XS Energy Drinks are taking over!

You’ve heard of Red Bull and the SoBe line of energy drinks, but have you heard of XS Energy Drinks?

Maybe not, but they are the fastest growing energy drink brand, with sales of over five million cases in 2006, putting the company among the top energy drinks.

“The growth is great,” said XS principal, David Vanderveen. “But I think it’s kind of ironic that we’re as large as we are and still pretty unknown.”

The company’s focal point is to bring flavors to consumers that they love, but without the carbs and sugar. “We’ve always focused on having the best tasting energy drinks in the category, but without the sugar and carbs – we were the first to make an energy drink in a flavor and the first to use the ‘Sugar Free’ label,” said Scott Coon, partner with Vanderveen in XS.

XS currently offers 11 different flavors and is a pioneer in sugar-free energy drinks. Their flavors include: Cranberry-Grape Blast, Citrus Blast, Tea Berry Blast, which is the first tea energy drink, Tropical Blast, Electric Lemon Blast, Cherry Blast, Rootbeer Blast, Cola Blast.

In addition, XS offers caffeine-free versions of the Tropical Blast, Cranberry-Grape Blast and Rootbeer Blast.

All the flavors are sugar-free and low calorie. The caffeine-free versions have folic acid and as much Vitamin C as the same sized serving of orange juice.

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I always find it interesting when I find blog posts related to Quixtar but outside of the usual realm of Quixtar Bloggers. Here is a snip from Matt Higgins and a link to the rest of Matt’s experience:

Matt Higgins:

About two to three weeks ago, I was browsing through the marketing books at Borders. While I was doing so, a guy who looked to be about the same age as me asked what I was looking at. Thinking it was his friendly way of saying hello, I gave a fairly simple response. He was genuinely intrigued, and continued the conversation with me about what I do for a living and small-talk related to the books I was looking at.

More.

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Quixtar News:

Start preparing your taste buds for an experience they will never forget! New Trim Advantage^® Protein Bars will be here in August, and they’ve been reformulated with great taste and fewer calories.

We’ll be keeping two of your current favorites, Fudgy Brownie Flavor with Almonds and Mixed Berry Smoothie Flavor. All of our other Trim Advantage Protein Bar flavors will be discontinued as existing inventory runs out, including:

• Caramel Vanilla Flavor (10-1559) - estimated run-out date in early June
• Strawberry Crème Flavor (10-1020) - estimated run-out date in late June
• Banana Crème Flavor (10-2001) - no estimated run-out date yet determined
• Roasted Peanut Flavor (10-0311) - no estimated run-out date yet determined
• Variety Pack (10-1998) - no estimated run-out date yet determined

We will keep you advised of inventory levels via What’s New, while at the same time, launching and promoting these incredible new flavors:

• Chocolate Flavor (10-3625) - available in August
• Lemon Flavor (10-3624) - available in August
• Peanut Flavor (10-3626) - available in September
• Strawberry Flavor (10-3623) - available in September
• NEW Variety Pack (10-3627) - available in October

New Trim Advantage Protein Bars have only 150-160 calories and provide five grams of dietary fiber. They also help support a low glycemic lifestyle.

Each bar is triple-layered for an unbeatable burst of flavor and contains three essential nutrients (dairy calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin E) that are challenging to get when on a restricted calorie diet.

We can’t wait for you to try them!

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The following is a letter from a Amway UK Diamond that was posted over at MLMLeads.eu:

Hello all,

Looks like it is true - the following is from ibs’ own website.

Don

By now you will have received or read on the Amivo web site Amway’s communication to all IBOs in the UK and RoI dated 4th May 2007.
Naturally many of you are seeking clarification on a number of issues as Amway’s ruling will take immediate effect and dramatically impact our way of doing business in the short term.

Because their decision was not communicated until 3pm on 4th May - just prior to the Bank Holiday weekend - our ability to respond and communicate with you has been severely hampered.

We are therefore urgently seeking a meeting with the Company as soon as possible after Monday 7th May in order to clarify their position and assist them in finding a way forward. That way, we can all move on with our individual businesses.

Obviously because Amway’s rulings take immediate effect, some of our planned business activity in the short term will need to be addressed.
If for instance, we are in the process of following up prospects or if we are about to register prospects, then we will need to explain to them that Amway is currently reviewing it’s procedures and are accepting no new applicants for at least 60 days.

If for instance, we have appointments with prospects in order to show them the plan, then these appointments should be put ‘on hold’ with the same explanation given.

Until we have met with Amway management and sought further clarification and agreement, open plans scheduled for week commencing 7th May should be postponed.
A decision about Seminars for the weekends of the 13th and 20th May will be made and communicated by the 10th May.

The supply of business building aides (tools) and also our web sites will be suspended, again, further to our meeting with Amway.

Finally we ask for your support and assistance during the coming weeks. We honesly believe that together and with your support we can overcome these current challenges. As we all know, where there is a will, solutions can always be found.

Our most important priority remains the well being of the team. We can assure you that our leaders will have your interests paramount in their thoughts in the coming weeks.

Pat and Greta Jerry and Mandy

UK Diamonds

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“Sources” are suggesting that Team5K is no longer an accredited IBO Organization, leaving only Markerman and eFinity as accredited IBO Organizations.

Missing from the accredited list are some of the largest groups within Quixtar:

WWDB - Puryear/Duncan and Co.
BWW - Britt’s Team
LTD - Winters Team
TEAM - Orrin Woodward and Co.

If you are thinking about signing up with Quixtar, it might be a good idea to find out if the group you plan on joining is accredited, especially given the recent sanctions Amway, (Quixtar’s sister company), imposed on IBO’s in the UK.

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Amway made an official comment on the UK Sanctions at the Amway Media Blog today.

Here is a clip from the post:

So: Is it so?

Yes.

By this post, we are confirming the veracity of the e-mail from Amway UK branch manager Ben Woodward, which was sent to IBOs in the UK last Friday and has since been widely circulated online. The text is below.

So: What else do we have to say for ourselves?

For now, we will let Ben’s message stand for itself. We are aware that there is intense speculation out there, and we do intend to address it in the near future.

But we will say this right now: All of us at Amway are 100 percent committed to the UK market, and to the IBOs there who are working hard to build their businesses the right way. Our only goal, ever, is to build a stronger business for IBOs and the customers who buy our products. What we are doing in the UK is an important step along that path.

Here is a link to the Amway UK Sanctions letter mentioned above.

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The following is from the owner/author of Get The Facts, he is also known as Insider or IBO Fightback around the Quixtar online community.  I reported the Amway UK sanctions letter as authentic from the beginning because I had two seperate sources telling me it was the real deal. On with the comments…

I have refrained from commenting on the email until I had confirmation it was authentic, I now have that confirmation and a little more information. The situation with the Department of Trade and Industry is a real issue, and leaders have been aware of it for some months. As has been the case in other markets, some IBOs, and indeed some “systems” have not operated in what I would consider a professional manner. I’ve had reports in the past, for example, of Amway UK and Ireland IBOs being taught by their group to invite friends around for dinner, then at the end of the dinner, bring out the whiteboard! Such deceptive techniques are explicitly against Amway rules and highly unprofessional.

Additionally, Amway Europe has had in place for some time rules limiting the amount of BSM IBOs may purchase in the first 3 months in the business. It’s my understanding these rules have been ignored by some groups.

An IBO with business in the UK I have been in contact with has clarified the following  -

• Sponsoring is postponed
• BSM sale is stopped until it is (re)-approved.
• Meetings with an entry-fee need written approval.
• The business has not stopped, the sale of products have not been banned!
• The income opportunity is not closed
• Meetings are not banned

He goes on to point out -

This is not unique to the UK. It works fine in many countries (including China and Russia) where similar regulations have been in place from the opening of the business due to local government regulations. Those markets are not sleeping… The IBO organisations I know of are not planning to sue Amway, they are cooperating with Amway to get the DTI issues cleared properly.

I’ll have more information as it comes to hand, but as it is a public holiday in the UK today, this may take a little while. It appears that what has happened is that the Quixtar Accreditation approach has been made compulsory and implemented immediately by Amway UK and Ireland in response to concerns expressed by the UK Deparment of Trade and Industry. Such “shock therapy” is what many critics have been calling for, whereas Amway and Quixtar has tended to take a more “softly, softly” approach to implementing change. The UK market is a potential sleeping giant for Amway, with very little market penetration, which hasn’t been helped by the deceptive practices and over-selling of some IBOs. It will be interesting to see the effect of these changes.

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According to one report, The Amway UK sanctions are only the start…

“Amways zero tolerance on system money started with the UK and Ireland on May 4th 2007 and will then roll out to the rest of the world, that’s when surely war will break out.”

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It appears as though an Amway UK Diamond is using his web site to keep people up to date on the Amway UK Sanctions:

Sunday 6th may A fellow diamond has just informed me that the function he was about to have at the beginning og june 07 has been banned. he had an email, not a phone call from Amways european designate saying if he held it he would be suspended. Amway have offered to compensate for loss of revenue, which contradicts their stand on making money from functions…but there you go! Apparently some very big shot American EDCS are flying to the UK to discusss implications…

Here is a link to the site.

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