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Words of wisdom

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Today two of our top execs offered words of wisdom to very different audiences.

Eva Cheng, who heads Amway’s greater China region, offered advice on doing business in China to a Grand Rapids business group.   A few of her tips:  never take no for an answer, help provide solutions to problems and communicate why your business is good for China.

In an interview with Pink.com, Amway chief marketing officer Candace Matthews counseled women on managing their careers.   Candace shared her secrets of success: understand the value of education, find a strong mentor and focus on excellence in all you do.

Wise words from women we have the benefit of learning from every day.

A good fit

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Last week Amway China was the focus of  major news coverage that captured its growth and bright future.

A Business Week story described why Amway and China are a “good fit,” suggesting that our  ”corporate culture blends with China’s entreprenurial bent.”    A Bloomberg story highlighted our double-digit growth in China and purpose, in the words of Amway’s Eva Cheng, of providing an “honest income opportunity for people from all walks of life.”

A good fit?  We couldn’t agree more.

 

 

Family circumstances

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When Amway President Doug DeVos visited Ukraine earlier this month, Status, a weekly business magazine sat down with him to talk about Amway’s past, present and future.

Titled, “Due to Family Circumstances,” the article covers everything from the combination of intuition and strategy employed by Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel when they founded Amway to the way Amway approaches and encourages creativity today.

In case you’re not fluent in Ukrainian, our favorite quote from Doug is, “You have to do what is right, not just what works.”

That’s a “family circumstance” that has been part of the way we do business for 50 years globally and for the past seven years in Ukraine.

Sound advice

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When Robert Pagliarini became an Amway distributor in 1995, he experienced a mindshift. His words:

“If you’ve never had your own business, you can’t understand what it feels like to be CEO of a company and to be responsible for marketing, generating clients, cash flow, recruiting, training, and all of the other hats an entrepreneur must wear.”

Today, Pagliarini writes for the CBS Moneywatch.com Human Capital section and is a frequent guest on Good Morning America and NPR’s Marketplace, offering financial and career advice.

He’s no longer a distributor, but 15 years later, Pagliarini penned a blog post titled Why You Should Join Amway. As he says, it’s the “easiest and quickest way to start your own business” and an opportunity worth considering.

Sound advice from someone who makes his living advising others.

All in a day’s work

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For a global company like Amway, headquarters may be Ada, Mich., but “the office” is wherever our business takes us.

Our execs log hundreds of thousands of miles each year visiting our colleagues in the more than 80 countries and territories in which we operate.

This week, for example, Amway Chairman Steve Van Andel was in Vietnam, visiting with the Amway Vietnam team, media, and government officials, including President Minh Triet.

Now, we don’t meet with the president of a country every day.

But for our globe-trotting leaders, a “day at the office” might be anywhere from Ada to Uruguay and involve anyone from a distributor to a dignitary.  It’s all in a day’s work.

Honorable mention

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Candace MatthewsToday the CEO and other execs from Black Enterprise came to Amway’s World Headquarters in Ada to officially honor Candace Matthews  as the magazine’s Corporate Executive of the Year.

Matthews, Amway’s chief marketing officer since 2008, is the first leader at a privately-held company to receive the magazine’s annual honor.

In presenting the award,  Black Enterprise CEO Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. said of Matthews,  “through her business prowess and innovative thinking, she is helping transform Amway into a 21st century global powerhouse.”

This is definitely an honor worth mentioning.

Power player

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For the second year, Amway executive vice president Eva Cheng has been named to the Forbes “100 Most Powerful Women” list.

The list, which Forbes has compiled since 2004, is a virtual “who’s who” of the top women in business, government and entertainment worldwide. As Forbes says, the list isn’t about celebrity or popularity. It’s about a more precious commodity: influence.

Forbes calls Cheng “fierce in the boardroom and on the social circuit.”

We couldn’t agree more.

Eva joined Amway more than 30 years ago as a secretary in our Hong Kong office. Today she runs our biggest affiliate, China, which she launched in 1995, as well as our other Southeast Asian markets. Her leadership has made Amway one of the most admired companies and best employers in China.

Eva’s a power player on the Amway team. And according to Forbes, in the rest of the world as well.

Amway teams up with Orlando’s new sports and entertainment center

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Amway CenterThe Orlando Events Center — the new venue for sports, concerts, and family entertainment — has had a “namelift.” As of today, it’s called the Amway Center.

The 875,000-square-foot facility, slated to open in the fall of 2010, will replace the nearby, two-decade old Amway Arena, a complex half the size. The Center will be the new home of the NBA’s Orlando Magic starting with the 2010-11 season.

Amway chief marketing officer Candace Matthews and Orlando Magic chief operating officer Alex Martins announced the naming today to a host of city dignitaries and the Orlando-area media. Said Matthews:

“We’re excited to continue this partnership with the Magic and Orlando, one of the world’s greatest tourist destinations. The NBA is one of the most popular sports leagues in the world. But this is much more than simply securing naming rights and continuing our partnership with the Magic. Rather, this takes us into partnership with the Orlando community, as we have partnered with other communities around the world where we do business, in aligning with our corporate vision of helping people live better lives.”

To get a preview of the Amway Center, go to www.amwaycenter.com.

Interns meet and compete

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Competition for summer internships is tough. But that’s nothing compared to competition between interns.

Interns from six West Michigan companies faced off this week in the second annual West Michigan Intern Olympics. We developed the event last year with office furniture manufacturer Steelcase to foster some healthy competition and camaraderie between our summer interns.

More than 160 interns from six local companies competed in events like marshmallow dodgeball and a hula hoop race to have fun in the sun and do a little networking. Local FOX affiliate WXMI and The Grand Rapids Press were among the media covering the event.

This summer we’re hosting more than 90 interns in 20 divisions at our Ada, Mich., world headquarters. Interns also are on the job at our Nutrilite facility in California, at Amway de Mexico, and at Amway Hong Kong, among other locations.

It’s all part of grooming the next generation of talent at Amway. (Marshmallow dodging and hula hooping skills are optional.)

Power of the press (visit)

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Each year Amway opens its doors to about a dozen groups of journalists from our markets all over the world. We also host individual media who visit our world headquarters in Ada, Michigan.

Media get behind-the-scenes tours of our manufacturing facilities, access to our leaders and experts, and the opportunity to ask whatever they want about our company, business opportunity, and products. These journalists run the gamut from managing editors to television reporters to business writers.

Case in point: A tale of two visits this month. A week or so ago we hosted 12 high-level journalists from some of India’s most influential media. They spent time with Amway chairman Steve Van Andel and other top execs to understand the company’s history and vision. Stories already have appeared in media like The Telegraph, India Retailing and The Economic Times about the future of Amway in India. There’s more coverage to come.

Meanwhile, our local Fox TV affiliate spent time touring our cosmetics facility to get the scoop on how ARTISTRY cosmetics and skin care are developed. The coverage aired locally and is viewable online. (Click on the “Amway’s Artistry Plant [#1-4] 7.22.09″ segments).

Both are examples of how we invite journalists in to learn about our business and products. We host these visits not just to encourage news coverage but to help journalists understand our business and accurately cover us. They ask us tough questions and get candid answers. And in just a few days they can see our facilities, hear from our scientists and experts, and get access to company leaders who may not travel often to their home countries. We can’t bring our mile-long manufacturing facility to Makati, but we can bring Filipino journalists to Ada. And we will later this year, along with media from Japan, Thailand, Turkey and Ukraine.

So, we roll out the welcome mat for journalists—or the maligayang pagdating banig, as the case may be.