About Amway

The Amway Opportunity

Can life get any better ?

So often life is a trade off between making money you need at the sacrifice of the flexibility and time you want, to live your life to the fullest.

Amway an alternative that puts you in control, allowing you the flexibility to work when you want, the time for family and friends, and the income you dream of.

The Amway Opportunity works in two ways.

Giving you the chance to build your own business while at the same time helping other people do the same.

The Amway Business Opportunity adapts easily to your needs and ambitions and grows with them.

You can run your business to be your main source of earnings, or fit it around your current job to provide an additional income.

Whatever you decide, Amway will offer you the training and personal support that's right for you. It's your decision. You choose.









Business Overview


It's quite a claim, but for 1,000,000 people a year it's true. With the support and guidance of the Amway Corporation they are taking their first steps towards a business of their own, giving them the freedom, time and money that'll help them lead a better life.


Person-to-person

The Amway Sales and Marketing Plan was conceived over forty years ago by two young entrepreneurs, Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel. They saw an opportunity for a retail business without stores and with minimal operating costs, a person-to-person sales business built upon quality products and services.

That business would offer each individual real rewards for their effort and give them the ability to share their success with others.


How do you begin?

First, you are sponsored by another Amway Distributor and you obtain the Amway Business Kit. An Amway Distributor receives no payment for recruiting. He receives income only from selling products to consumers. Remuneration is based solely on the margin from the sale of products and on bonuses based on sales volume.

The Business Kit contains basic literature for your use and for sharing with others. You begin by developing both customers and Distributors as you are equipping yourself with the essentials to build a successful business.

Forming Your Customer Base.

Customers are the people who buy the AMWAY products from you but who aren't Amway Distributors. One of your best sources for building a customer base is a group of people you already know. These acquaintances try AMWAY products and become your customers as they use and reorder various AMWAY items. However, we have found that people everywhere need high-quality products.

Building Your Distributor Group

Distributors are people who have evaluated the Amway business opportunity and elected to join the business. The most successful Amway businesses enjoy a balance of merchandising AMWAY products and sponsoring Distributors. Growth in your business comes from sharing the Amway business opportunity with others and helping them decide if it's right for them. This is called sponsoring. Amway Distributors who sponsor others generally have higher average sales volumes than those who don't sponsor.

Helping Your Group Grow.

Your "group" is the team of Distributors you've sponsored. Many you've sponsored personally, but others were sponsored by those you personally sponsored. You train and motivate your group and, as a result, you earn extra income when they earn income. As you continue to grow your business and they continue to grow theirs, you both can benefit.

Continuing to Build Your Business

Like any other business, your Amway distributorship needs frequent input and activity to grow. However, whatever your goals, you control how quickly or how slowly you build your business. After all, it's your independent Amway business.

Qualifying for Higher Awards

Over time, a distributorship can grow considerably. The more Distributors in your group who become successful in the Amway business, the stronger your business will become, and the higher the pin levels you can qualify for. We call them "pin levels" because you earn incentive pins at the various achievement levels of the business (e.g., at the Diamond Direct level you will earn a pin with a diamond on it). Each pin level features a set of incentives and rewards for being successful.

What Is In It For You

Income, incentives and more

The Amway Opportunity offers Distributors many benefits. Some are financial, others are intangibles, such as peer recognition, pride in achievement, the joy of helping others, working with family, and the esteem of owning your own business.


Income potential

As an Amway Distributor, you can earn income many different ways. You can earn income in at least 10 different ways. They include retail profit (the difference between Distributor Cost and the Retail Price) and nine different bonuses rewarding various levels of accomplishment.

Special Leadership Programs

As you qualify at various levels of achievement, you may be eligible to attend various Amway leadership programs:

Annual Amway Leadership Seminar: In countries around the world, company-paid invitations are extended to Amway leaders to meet in a business-building atmosphere.

Variety of Special Programs: When your business qualifies at a specific Distributor level, a special invitation occurs. Imagine your special day at an Amway facility, your own success story featured in our Distributor magazine, the AMAGRAM and your name and picture added to the Distributor Hall of Fame in Amway's World Headquarters.


Low start-up costs

With an Amway Business Kit being the only start-up cost, virtually anyone can own an Amway business. Compared to other business opportunities, initial costs for starting an Amway business is intentionally low, priced affordably for nearly anyone with a desire to invest in their future.

Low risk

Our product-buy-back policy and no inventory requirement ensure a very low risk when starting an Amway business. Our Amway Satisfaction Guarantee has always been a measure of confidence in the quality and value of AMWAY products, one more way Amway supports the business opportunity for Distributors.

Performance based

Amway is a performance-based business that rewards people in direct proportion to their effort. The bigger the financial goal, the more time and effort a Distributor will need to put into his or her business. With an Amway business, a Distributor can work as much or little as he or she likes. The rewards are based directly on the Distributor's accomplishments.

Direct Selling is the trend

Thirty-four million people worldwide are engaged in direct selling, an $82 billion industry. As people become busier, they're looking for ways to save time on routine tasks, such as shopping for everyday needs. Direct selling fills this need nicely, because Amway Distributors deliver products to their doors. In addition, Amway is one of largest direct selling companies in the world and with a 40-year history of success.

Flexibility

Goals and rewards are different for each Distributor. You have the flexibility of working part time while keeping a full-time job or building an Amway business into a full-time career. You choose the time you invest in building your Amway business.

Product support

The Amway business opportunity is supported by a diverse line of hundreds of quality AMWAY products and, in many markets, thousands of other brand-name products and services. Amway has established a reputation for innovation in developing top quality products and packaging.

Corporate support.

More than 12,000 people worldwide are employed in Amway manufacturing, administration, and distribution facilities totalling 10 million square feet (929,000 square meters). Amway manufactures products in the United States, China and Korea and maintains product warehousing facilities around the globe.

Equality of opportunity

Anyone starting an Amway business gets in at the same level. Each new Distributor has the same opportunity to surpass the most successful Distributor, and the business opportunity is continually improved. The Amway Opportunity has been imitated often, but the level of support Amway provides Distributors is difficult to duplicate.

Personal experiences

When you go to the theatre, you experience the film with your own set of perceptions. The same goes for the Amway business. Each person brings his or her own special needs and dreams to the table. As you attend Distributor meetings organised by your Distributor organisation, you will meet real Distributors who tell you what they've experienced from embracing the Amway Opportunity. Every month the AMAGRAM, our monthly magazines features personal experiences of people from diverse backgrounds qualifying for higher awards.













Commitment to Excellence

A product based business

At Amway, quality means innovation in formulas and technology. A commitment to excellence backed by the resources to do the job right. And confidence that every product will meet your satisfaction, guaranteed!

It is our mission to develop and produce products that delight its customers as well as improve their wellbeing, their environment and their lives. Amway owns over 380 patents, with about 430 patents pending for products created exclusively for Distributors and ensures that they do exactly what they say on the package.


More than soap

The L.O.C. Multi-purpose Cleaner is Amway's first product and is still unique today. It was with this single product, a biodegradable liquid organic cleaner, and a unique sales and marketing plan that Rich and Jay founded Amway back in 1959.

Amway now offers hundreds of products in virtually every area important in the lives of your customers, including: nutritional supplements, cosmetic and skin care products, personal toiletries, household cleaners, laundry care systems, water treatment systems, etc. Whatever the product, you'll find exceptional value and quality in AMWAY products.


Nutrition & Wellness

Living well is possible for anyone willing to make a personal commitment and to take responsibility for his or her own wellbeing. Nutrilite has helped people take control of their lives by offering good choices with our NUTRILITE dietary and herbal supplements, POSITRIM Meal Replacement Food Mixes, ACTIVE 8 beverages, and soy-based NUTRILITE Protein Powder.

ARTISTRY Products

Incorporating scientifically advanced technology to create products that work their best, ARTISTRY products are clinically proven with documented research, rigorous safety testing under the supervision of dermatologists, and stringent, non-animal clinical trials.

History of Artistry

Home Living

Offering technologically advanced products that makes a house your home, the home living range offers one of the best on-demand, dual technology Water Treatment Systems available. The QUEEN Cookware is a low-moisture, low-fat cooking system that provides you with a lifetime of healthy delicious cooking.

Home Care

Concentrated Amway household cleaners takes the drudgery out of cleaning, because if really works with a minimum of effort. We can't promise you'll like housework, but we can promise to make it less of a chore.

Personal Care

You'll find only necessary ingredients of the finest quality Amway's lotions, body washes, toothpaste, deodorants and hair care products. There are no hidden ingredients, just clean, pure products that uphold the standards of honesty and integrity, which have come to characterise AMWAY products the world over.

"I like the soap business, but I love the Nutrition & Wellness business. It has such a direct impact. You know it when you see someone who's fit, looks good and has energy." RICH DEVOS


Amway Customer Satisfaction Guarantee

By developing innovative top quality products and packaging, Amway offers Distributors a wide product range that they can retail with confidence, backed by the Amway Customer Satisfaction Guarantee.

THE AMWAY SATISFACTION GUARANTEE

We stand behind the quality of Amway products. Anytime you buy an Amway product you have the right to use it for a reasonable period of time to determine if it is satisfactory and you want to keep it. Should you decide it is not satisfactory, please return the product to your Amway Distributor, who will offer you the choice to have it replaced without charge, receive full credit of the returned product for the purchase of another Amway-brand product, or receive a refund of the full purchase price. This Guarantee does not apply to products that have been intentionally damaged or misused, Amway-distributed products which provide a specific time period of return, and those products covered by express written warranties. All Amway products sold in Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam do not contain placenta, pork nor its derivatives The Amway Customer Satisfaction Guarantee assures customers that if they are not satisfied with an Amway produced, manufactured product after a reasonable time of usage, they can return the product for a full refund, a replacement or credit.

How's that for confidence!



World class facilities


Distributors can take pride in presenting their customers with exclusive, award-winning product lines, developed in state-of-the art facilities and manufactured at Ada, Michigan, USA.

The past 40 years haven't been idle years. We've built and remodeled as the Amway business has grown. Today we support the worldwide business opportunity from the Amway World Headquarters, which sits on a 390-acre site.

The complex is a mile long of offices, warehouses, manufacturing, research and development facilities. We do most of our own manufacturing, including product production and packaging, printing and shipping. Amway also maintains a fleet of cross-country semi trucks and trailers and has its own railroad.

Research Excellence

Dedicated people throughout the research, development and manufacturing processes drive the Amway commitment to quality - beginning with a team of 430 research and development scientists and quality assurance professionals, working in 57 laboratories in 14,415 sq. metres of facilities at Amway World Headquarters.

In addition to maintaining constant, day-to-day quality, Amway has adopted the World Class Manufacturing Principles - a process for the continuous improvement of all products and processes.

Nutrilite products are manufactured at Buena Park, California and produces over half a billion tablets every month. Nutrilite manufactures its products according to strict pharmaceutical manufacturing standards to assure the highest quality possible. Extensive quality checks are conducted before, during and after production to ensure every product meets stringent pre-determined standards.



Respecting the environment


Amway has a history of environmental concern in product development, and has been a corporate pioneer in manufacturing environmentally conscious products. Amway's first product, L.O.C. Multi-Purpose Cleaner, was one of the first cleaners on the market using only biodegradable surfactants. Here are some of the other ways Amway manufacturing respects the environment.

Source Reduction

Since its founding, Amway has been a pioneer in concentrated formulas, which reduce the amount of packaging for disposal.

Recycling

Use of recycled materials in packaging includes plastic bottles produced with a centre layer of recycled resin, new plastic bottles manufactured from recycled soft drink bottles and SA8 Laundry Compound cartons made from 35 percent post-consumer material.

Non-Animal Testing

Amway maintains the highest standards in product safety evaluation without the use of animal testing.

Plant Concentrates

Nutrilite is a leading global brand that grows, harvests and processes its own plant concentrates using biologically sound methods. The Nutrilite Farming Practices (NFP) focuses on the long-term sustainability of the land, and is characterised as natural, sustainable and employing a lot of good common sense.


Recognition for a job well done

In presenting its Achievement Award to Amway, the United Nations Environment Programme recognised the company's efforts to promote environmental protection and to encourage youth to make the environment a priority concern. Amway was the second corporation to receive this prestigious award.