Since Quixtar is on the way out, we are retiring this blog and direct you to:
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This will be the final post on this site. See you at the Amway Blog!
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Fitness Star Gabrielle Reece Signs on as SIMPLY NUTRILITE Spokesperson - Press Release
The SIMPLY NUTRILITE line of nutrient-rich food bars, juices and dietary supplements provide the ideal solution for the fast-paced, productive lifestyle of today’s mother who leads a family on the go. Created by a team of leading nutrition scientists and health experts to make eating better simple, it’s exactly what a savvy mom needs to ensure optimal performance for her family.“My career depends on me making smart nutritional and fitness choices,” said Gabby Reece. “But with a hectic schedule that includes two children - and a third on the way - it’s not always easy to have full healthy meals everyday. SIMPLY NUTRILITE products are the sure option for quick and better nutrition.”
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Quixtar, a multi-level marketing company, was formed on 1st September 1999 and is part of the group (Alticor) that includes Amway.Owned by the DeVos and Van Andel families, the Quixtar name replaced that of Amway in the US, the Caribbean and Canada. In June of this year the company stated that the Quixtar name would cease to be used over the next couple of years and that Amway would once again be utilised for their business branding.
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MLM - Network Marketing Blog : Orrin Woodward Takes The Witness Stand - Quixtar - TEAM Lawsuit Video
According to a report on WOOD TV, a Quixtar IBO was pressured to quit and join the TEAM System in August.
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The Associated Press: Quixtar Sues 30 Over Web Remarks
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Direct-marketing firm Quixtar Inc., a
sister company of Amway Corp., has sued 30 people who anonymously
posted what it considers disparaging remarks about Quixtar in blogs and
online forums and in YouTube.com videos.In the lawsuit filed
this past week in Ottawa County Circuit Court, Quixtar seeks an
injunction and damages of more than $25,000 against the posters,
identified only as John Does.Quixtar believes the videos and
other postings are part of an organized effort by former distributors
who unsuccessfully sued Alticor and are under court order not to
disparage the company or disclose proprietary information, according to
the lawsuit.In one video the lawsuit cites, a man wearing a
shirt that says “Property of Quixtar” rants about the company. In
another, a man points out products at a grocery store priced much lower
than comparable Quixtar products.Quixtar plans to ask for
permission to subpoena various online companies to figure out who
posted the materials, spokesman Rob Zeiger said.Quixtar develops
and manufactures nutrition, beauty and cleaning products that are
marketed through a tiered selling system. Parent company Alticor Inc.
uses the Quixtar name for its U.S. and Canadian direct sales unit and
sells products throughout the rest of the world as Amway Corp.Alticor,
a $6.3 billion company based in Ada, Mich., announced in June that it
will start phasing out the Quixtar name and rebuilding its Amway brand
in the U.S. and Canada.
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Testimony continues in the case against a group of former Quixtar distributors, as lawyers for the e-commerce arm of Alticor claim those former distributors violated an August court order.At that time, the judge ruled the distributors, who were fired from Quixtar, must stop using sales training and other material supplied by Quixtar to the company. Those distributors were part of an effort to convince large numbers of other distributors to leave Quixtar.
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Rumors are running around the Orrin Woodward and the TEAM have lined up a high level supplier for their new Network Marketing company, Quixtar now has a restraining order against the TEAM leaders. TEAM leaders are not even supposed to talk to their Quixtar IBOs.
Will the TEAM survive?
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ADA, Mich., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Quixtar Inc. announced this morning the termination of 15 independent businesses as a result of actions detrimental to the company’s North American operations. The businesses affected were part of the Team training organization or other training organizations using Team’s training materials and named as co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by Team’s founders against Quixtar yesterday.Quixtar was working with Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, founders of the Team training organization, to correct issues related to Team’s teaching of inappropriate business-building tactics, improper positioning of the opportunity, and use of unauthorized support materials. These teachings placed themselves, affiliated Independent Business Owners (IBOs), and Quixtar at serious and immediate risk of legal and regulatory actions and had to be stopped.
Woodward and Brady refused to work with the company to return Team to compliance with Quixtar’s rules, stated their intentions of starting a new company in competition with Quixtar, and filed a lawsuit against the company seeking relief from their non-compete requirements. The lawsuit is filled with outrageous claims and statements and will be defended vigorously by the corporation.
Due to their refusal to correct their business practices, Quixtar terminated the independent businesses of Woodward and Brady as well as those who joined them as plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit, filed in a California district court yesterday. A Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Order of Injunction was sought by the company and granted today in a Michigan district court, preventing Woodward and Brady from interfering with the Quixtar Line of Sponsorship (LOS), soliciting IBOs for another business opportunity, disparaging Quixtar and damaging its reputation, and requiring them to return to Quixtar its proprietary and confidential LOS data.
Additional co-plaintiffs whose Quixtar independent businesses were terminated include Billy Florence, Don Wilson, Randy Haugen, Chuck Goetschel, Tim Marks, Kirk Birtles, James Martin, Aron Radosa, David Brandy, Benjamin Dickie, Bruce Gilbank, Michael Martenson, and Chuck Cullen.
Incidentally, the law firm representing the plaintiffs is the same firm involved in several other frivolous lawsuits against Quixtar and IBOs.
Quixtar remains committed to the support of all IBOs and will work with those who agree to abide by the company’s rules and maintain high ethical standards. In fact, the company has announced many improvements to further enhance its business, including more than $200 million in investments in product development, brand building, training, and compensation enhancements.
Commentary from the company is being provided at the Alticor Media Blog [http://media.alticorblogs.com/] and Quixtar is actively reaching out to IBOs who were in the Team training organization and other organizations affected by these terminations to restate our commitment to supporting their independent businesses.
About Quixtar
Quixtar Inc. offers a business opportunity that allows people to have a business of their own based on retailing products and sharing the opportunity with others who will do the same. Quixtar supports Independent Business Owners (IBOs) with a proven compensation plan, portfolios of quality products in health, beauty, and other consumer categories, plus the merchandising materials, training, and education they need to be successful. IBOs also are supported by communities of those who have succeeded in Quixtar businesses before them.
Since 1999, Quixtar IBOs have generated $6.8 billion in sales through Quixtar.com, plus more than $500 million for Quixtar Partner Stores. These sales have earned IBOs more than $2.2 billion in bonuses through the Quixtar(R) Independent Business Owner Compensation Plan plus other incentives. Their efforts have propelled Quixtar to be ranked the #1 online Health & Beauty retailer based on sales, and 22nd among all e-commerce sites, according to Internet Retailer magazine.
A subsidiary of Alticor Inc., Quixtar 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.
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MONTEREY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SHOP.COM (www.shop.com), the ecommerce multi-merchant marketplace with OneCart™ convenience, today announced that it has introduced an additional 74 of its merchant partner stores to Quixtar’s Independent Business Owners (IBOs). As the only Quixtar marketplace partner, SHOP.COM offers its merchant stores direct access to Quixtar’s highly-motivated IBOs.
SHOP.COM maintains a partner marketplace for Quixtar that now consists of nearly 650 merchant stores providing IBOs with all the same features and functionality found on SHOP.COM. The Quixtar partnership is part of SHOP.COM’s affinity partner marketing strategy that enhances leading loyalty programs with SHOP.COM’s OneCart convenience and deep merchant relationships.
“SHOP.COM has been a valued partner of ours for eight years,” said Jim Payne, Managing Director of Quixtar. “Quixtar IBOs have generated more than $500 million in sales for our Partner Stores since we launched in 1999. Their hard work combined with the quality shopping experience provided by merchants like SHOP.COM is what makes our Partner Store program so successful. The recent expansion of the SHOP.COM marketplace makes it an even more appealing Partner Store for Quixtar IBOs.”
“Strategic partnerships with affinity groups allow us to promote our merchants to an even broader and, unquestionably, more loyal group of shoppers on the Internet. Dedicated Quixtar IBOs are great partners for us and our merchants,” said Bruce Sellers, president of SHOP.COM. “As we make more merchants available to Quixtar IBOs, their enthusiasm for the breadth of products and brands naturally increases and they shop even more often. This creates a ‘rising-tide-lifts-all-boats’ ripple effect where supply actually stimulates demand — a tremendous benefit for all our merchants.”
The additional SHOP.COM stores to be introduced in the partner marketplace include such retailers as Casual Male, Diamond.com, Ice.com, Leap & Bounds, OneStepAhead, BabyPhat, and Potpourri Online Gift Catalog, among others.
About Quixtar
Quixtar Inc. offers a business opportunity that allows people to have a business of their own based on retailing products and sharing the opportunity with others who will do the same. Quixtar supports Independent Business Owners (IBOs) with a proven compensation plan, portfolios of quality products in health, beauty, and other consumer categories, plus the merchandising materials, training, and education they need to be successful. IBOs also are supported by communities of those who have succeeded in Quixtar businesses before them.
Since 1999, Quixtar IBOs have generated $6.8 billion in sales through Quixtar.com, plus more than $500 million for Quixtar Partner Stores. These sales have earned IBOs more than $2.2 billion in bonuses through the QUIXTAR® Independent Business Owner Compensation Plan plus other incentives. Their efforts have propelled Quixtar to be ranked the #1 online Health & Beauty retailer based on sales, and 22nd among all e-commerce sites, according to Internet Retailer magazine.
A subsidiary of Alticor Inc., Quixtar 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.
About SHOP.COM
SHOP.COM is the destination online marketplace designed to help consumers more conveniently and efficiently shop on the web. SHOP.COM organizes millions of products from more than a thousand merchants in a single location, allowing consumers to shop across them all – start to finish – with OneCart™ and one personal password-protected account. OneCart ™ is SHOP.COM’s unique, proprietary patented solution that fully integrates data feeds from all SHOP.COM merchant partners to allow a single check-out experience. SHOP.COM is a privately-held company headquartered in Monterey, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SHOP.COM.
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