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'Michigan Governor’s Race' Posts
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006…
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That's clearly not how the Luddites and xenophobes who made this ad see the world, Maine ME Me.. If they can see it at all, buy clomid without prescription. Buy clomid no prescription, Selling our U.S.-made products all over the world, and tapping into the China market, order clomid overnight delivery, Cheap clomid tablets, we have grown to be a $6.4 billion enterprise with more than 5,000 U.S, clomid prices. Buy clomid, employees. Without those markets, buy cheap clomid, Wyoming WY Wyo., we’re 80 percent smaller, with 80 percent fewer U.S, buy clomid bars. Order clomid online, employees.
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Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, September 8th, 2006…
Order clomid, Two campaign commercials have now asserted that our company laid off 1,400 Michigan workers while Dick DeVos was our president.
That is baloney. These are the facts:
The Democratic Party ad cited a July 19, online clomid, 2005 Free Press column by Tom Walsh noting that between 1997 and 2005, Nevada NV Nev., our Michigan workforce went from 5,300 to 3,900, order clomid without prescription. No mention – none – of layoffs. Order clomid no rx, 5,300 to 3,900, cheapest clomid prices. Yes, we are truly sorry to say – though the changes we made have left us stronger and more competitive, order clomid.
But 1, Alabama AL Ala., 400 layoffs. No. Over those eight years, ordering clomid overnight delivery, we got from one of those numbers to the other by:
- 600 involuntary separations. Cheapest clomid, In other words, there were 600 of our colleagues who, through no choice of their own -- and no fault of their own -- had their positions eliminated.
- 400 early retirements, Montana MT Mont., buyouts and other voluntary separations. Those people chose to leave.
- Order clomid, 400 positions eliminated through attrition. Buy clomid overnight delivery, Those 400 were not forced out; rather, over time, when they left for their own reasons, order clomid, they were not replaced.
Why does this matter to us. Cheap clomid no rx, Because every one of those 1,400 people were our colleagues and our friends, and we worked like crazy to make sure the business decisions we had to make were as humane as we could make them, cheap clomid bars.
Some of us here have been in situations at other companies where the suits from HQ walk in, Buy clomid online without prescription, hand everyone a check and say, "Today's your last day. See ya."
Not here, buy clomid. Not us, order clomid. We treated our colleagues as people – with respect, Purchase clomid online, with generous benefits, and all the help we could give them.
We understand there is political advantage in making people think otherwise, ordering clomid online cheap, but that doesn't make it true. West Virginia WV W.Va., So allowing people to make the "inference" (a fine weasel word, that) that we lopped off 1,400 people, cheap clomid from canada, dusted off our hands and went on our merry way is factually incorrect, Clomid prescription, morally dishonest, and wrong.
The other point in the ads, Kansas KS Kans., about our capital investment in China – it's almost too tiresome to drag up again. Order clomid, But here we go:
Yes, our capital investment in China over the past decade is around $200 million. Buy clomid online, But for a point of comparison, we are spending more than $100 million just on our new, downtown Grand Rapids hotel here in Michigan, buy clomid cheap. And that's just one project. Ordering clomid online without prescription, We aren't in the habit of publishing our internal financial data – that's the sort of stuff our competitors would like to know – but it's a safe bet that our Michigan investments dwarf those in China.
And by the way, that Walsh column, Colorado CO Colo.. It labeled the Democratic Party chairman’s behavior on the China issue “an overstated bit of political theater,â€. and counseled, “Don’t expect Sinophobia to ease anytime soon.â€.
Now, that would be truth in advertising.
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Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, September 1st, 2006…
Mucho coverage Buy clomid online legally, of our announcement yesterday that we are going up statewide in Michigan with TV ads protecting the Amway name, Kansas KS Kans., North Carolina NC N.C., which has become a political football this election season.
Because it is political season, cheap clomid online legally, Buy clomid online, all the furor has quickly gathered around the political questions: "Were you in cahoots with the campaign. Who’s your firm, ordering clomid no prescription. Mississippi MS Miss., This is all to help the campaign, right?"
We refer you back to one of our very first posts: We have a business to run, ordering clomid. And day after day, we are making business decisions for business reasons, buy clomid online legally. Colorado CO Colo., Democrats work here, Republicans work here, cheap clomid bars. Buy clomid from canada, Democrats write this blog, Republicans do, Idaho ID. Ordering clomid online without prescription, Republicans worked on our commercials, Democrats did, clomid cheap. Online clomid, That is because WE ARE A COMPANY, and NOT A CAMPAIGN, Iowa IA. Buy clomid online legally, We’d rather spend our time with our families, not fielding political calls. Cheap clomid online, We’d rather spend our money growing our business, not defending it from political attackers who could care less whether the 4, Indiana IN Ind., Buy clomid cheap, 000 people who work here end up as collateral damage in a political campaign. (Yeah, ordering clomid online, Cheap clomid overnight delivery, we’re hammering a theme – but we believe it. So deal.)
So, order clomid overnight delivery, Buy cheap clomid online, to those who are scrambling to find deeper meanings and darker motives: Here is how we finished up our internal memo to employees announcing the ads yesterday:
These ads are about us and not about any political campaign. The ads do not support any candidate for any office, generic clomid. Maine ME Me., They explain who we are and what we do and will make you proud to be an employee of the Alticor family of companies. The ads will be shown under the name Amway, Missouri MO Mo., our international export brand, because that is the name that the critics have cynically attacked.
We want everyone to do their civic duty and vote for the candidate of their choice, Democrat, Republican or Independent.
Like the man says, "you got a problem with that?".
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Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race, Quixtar
Monday, August 14th, 2006…
Big business-front story yesterday in the Grand Rapids Press on how our company was handling the effects of Dick DeVos’ run for governor of Michigan Ordering clomid online cheap, . Good piece, order clomid without prescription. Clomid without a prescription, (Though no spokesperson, believe it or not, South Dakota SD, Cheapest clomid in the world, ever really enjoys being quoted.)
Now, we know that we should have blogged about the piece yesterday, Kentucky KY Ky., Ordering clomid bars, especially because they mentioned the blog specifically, even using quotes and, order clomid, Cheapest clomid prices, in the print edition, excerpts, Rhode Island RI R.I.. Tennessee TN Tenn., But two things held us back.
One, order clomid from canada, Where to buy cheap clomid, there’s this whole thing about us blogging about a news story about us blogging about news stories. Because then if someone writes another story about the story, or blogs about the blogs, or – well, see diagram, ordering clomid online cheap.
And second, Massachusetts MA Mass., Texas TX Tex., it was really nice out yesterday. And we do worry about becoming the sorts of bloggers that don’t get out of the basement enough, where to buy cheap clomid. Buy clomid cheap, If we had to nitpick anything, it would be the headlines that accompanied the print version (“Damage Control�) and the online version “(“Alticor Deflects Fallout�), cheap clomid online. Illinois IL Ill., Not sure we feel damaged. Ordering clomid online cheap, Not sure Dick DeVos qualifies as radioactive. But who knows, Rhode Island RI R.I.. Ordering clomid online legally, Headline writing is harder than it looks (see above). And a month from now, buy clomid no prescription, Order clomid no prescription, we may be sitting here with our chinstraps buckled, thinking that the copy editor who wrote the headline was Miss Cleo, Nevada NV Nev.. West Virginia WV W.Va., Speaking of which, if you don’t know what our headline means, cheapest clomid, go ask the oldest newspaper guy you can find – the kind of fella who still laments the demise of Terry and the Pirates, and who knows that ships don’t sail the Great Lakes, but boats do.
Oh, and one factual note – we count Dick DeVos as serving as president here for 10 years – seven when we were Amway Corp., three after we became Alticor. The Press just counted the Alticor years. Technically true, but not exactly.
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Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, August 4th, 2006…
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Posted in: Access Business Group, Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race, Miscellaneous, Product Lines, Quixtar
Friday, July 21st, 2006…
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Just a week later, cheap clomid no rx, Missouri MO Mo., the Court of Appeals panel affirmed the trial court's decision...where the case was dismissed based on the pleadings before it even got started. The appellate panel held "that in a thorough and well considered opinion, ordering clomid no rx, Buy cheap clomid online, the trial court dismissed this case..." Bottom line, this is the fifth dismissal in a row for this suit...it has been tossed out of Federal Court, ordering clomid online, Oklahoma OK Okla., two state courts and two appellate courts. Enough is enough, buy clomid overnight delivery. Cheapest clomid online, So, in spite of the plaintiffs' lawyers' colorful language and eye-popping (and unsubstantiated) numbers...there's nothing for the claims to stand on, Wyoming WY Wyo.. Order clomid without prescription, Now, let's all get back to business, cheap clomid bars, Virginia VA Va., shall we.
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Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, July 14th, 2006…
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The Press is a quality paper, order clomid online legally, Iowa IA, well-run and fair. Even so, Vermont VT Vt., New Jersey NJ N.J., this is a pretty good example of the kind of story that we think would be smaller news, at best, buy clomid without prescription, Lowest price clomid, if one of our former executives was not running for governor. Why, buy clomid bars.
Fact is, this case has been filed in New York –and dismissed, clomid without prescription. Pennsylvania PA Penn., The NY dismissal was appealed -- and lost. The case was then reheated and refiled in Illinois – dismissed again, buy clomid online cheap. Order clomid online cheap, Re-reheated and filed a third time in Michigan back in 2004 – and dismissed. (That’s the decision being appealed.) The allegations that we somehow knew the future of WTO, order clomid, Cheapest clomid in the world, the huge numbers being thrown around -- sorry, it's wild-eyed nonsense, cheap clomid from canada, Buy cheap clomid, legal theatrics. We can explain further if needed, order clomid no rx. District of Columbia DC D.C., The appeals panel, of course, cheap clomid, Discount clomid, will come to its own decision. We trust the process will again uphold our argument that former shareholders were fairly treated, cheap clomid online. North Carolina NC N.C.. Generic clomid. Buy clomid no rx. Mississippi MS Miss.. Georgia GA Ga..
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Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Thursday, July 13th, 2006…
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Our word is “pyramid.â€.
Did we mention it makes us crazy, clomid without a prescription.
So let us get this off our chest. (And take you on a trip to Malaysia while we're at it -- see below.)
Maybe you’ll read this post and think, “What are they whining about?â€, clomid generic. Minnesota MN Minn., Or maybe instead you’ll rewrite your little internal dictionary and remove the term from your mental definition of our company. Either way, we’ll feel better for having said it, purchase clomid.
In the foulest sense of the word, Wyoming WY Wyo., a pyramid is a scam – a get-rich-quick scheme connived by greedy criminals to fleece gullible investors. Pay this much to get in, you are told, clomid online, get some others to invest their money, Ordering clomid from canada, and like magic, you will walk out X weeks later with double your money. Clomid generic, (Or more!) No sales required. No products, cheap clomid without prescription. Just suckers. Buy clomid without prescription, These scams are as old as the hills, and as long as greed and gullibility are among us, they will continue to crop up, order clomid no prescription.
So you can see how any use of the term in association with our company makes us nuts.
We won’t bore you with the endless legal reasons the term does not apply here – we’d like to think they're obvious, clomid generic. Ordering clomid without prescription, (For you every-detail types, though, check out this document from the Direct Selling Association.)
And –- since we’re venting –- it’s not just the noun that kills us, New Hampshire NH N.H.. It’s the adjective – "pyramid-style." Sorry, Order clomid online, that doesn’t soften the blow. That’s like saying “moronicâ€. is kinder than “moron.â€, cheapest clomid in the world. Clomid generic, Gee, thanks.
Legitimate multi-level marketing companies use individuals to recruit others into the business, Buy clomid online cheap, and to then support those newcomers as they learn to sell. We then pay bonuses based on product sales. We pay for a service provided to us that has clear value to us, Vermont VT Vt.. It is called "marketing, Clomid for sale, " and it is why the contract with Amway or Quixtar distributors is called the "Sales and Marketing Plan."
Or: I sell stuff and get a commission. I bring a friend into the business; train her and keep her motivated; she sells stuff and gets a commission, too; and if we both sell enough stuff, I earn a commission off her sales, clomid generic. But here is the key: if we sell zip, we earn zip. That’s a sales organization, order clomid from canada. Not a pyramid. Montana MT Mont., What does that say about us. That people who stay at it longer and put more into it are likely to make extra money. Clomid generic, BIG DEAL. Show us a sales department that doesn’t work that way, ordering clomid online cheap.
So the structure of our business shouldn’t make anyone flap their arms –- but still, Texas TX Tex., almost 50 years after we were founded, some people do.
The heart of the flapping –- and the root of what makes us crazy –- is the notion that we endorse the idea of getting rich quick, purchase clomid online.
We wish you had been with us a couple weeks ago at the 30th anniversary celebration for Amway Malysia. 40,000 people in an outdoor soccer stadium in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, cheering musical acts, speakers and one seriously large beach ball, clomid generic. Mississippi MS Miss., (Another word that makes us crazy. “Cult-like.â€. No, Massachusetts MA Mass.. Enthusiastic, Online clomid, amped-up, in-the-moment. Yes Clomid generic, .)
Anyway. Who do you think got some of the biggest, rowdiest cheers. Some of our top distributors – people who had recruited many of the people in the crowd that night. Some of the people, in other words, who were earning commissions from the sales of others in that crowd.
And do you know how those distributors began the speeches that got all those cheers.
"When I started with Amway 28 years ago…"
"What my 26 years in the business have taught me…"
"If I can do it, you can do it…"
Does that sound like we endorse "get-rich-quick?"
We don’t, clomid generic. Because you can’t. Anything worth achieving takes talent, takes hard work and it takes time.
And that includes changing perceptions.
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Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, June 30th, 2006…
Clomid without a prescription, We've tried, but sometimes it takes a professional to explain these things. Buy clomid, Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press got the heart of the China issue exactly right today in his column.
As always, clomid without prescription, Ordering clomid no prescription, we'll stay away from the candidate talk. Who to vote for is somebody else's fight; we're just here to stand up for our business, cheap clomid online cheap. Virginia VA Va., (That's why we've used ellipses to remove candidate and party references.)
But for putting the whole China jobs thing in context. See the quotes from Dickerson's column below, clomid without a prescription. We couldn't say it any better ourselves, where to buy cheap clomid. Clomid cheap,
"[P]hony bit of... demagoguery."
and
"[T]hose who suggest that every Chinese worker Amway employed swiped the livelihood of some Michigan Amway worker don't have a clue how the 21st-Century world economy works."
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Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Saturday, June 24th, 2006…
This morning's Detroit News carries the second part of a profile Ordering clomid online without prescription, of our former president, Dick DeVos, who is running for governor in Michigan. Cheapest clomid online, Today's piece focuses on our company, and Dick's time here, Colorado CO Colo.. Buy clomid from canada, We read this morning's article, just like you did, cheap clomid online without prescription, Discount clomid, and just want to underline a few things:
No, we are not a pyramid scheme, cheap clomid no rx. Cheapest clomid prices, The article points out how that specious claim has been put to rest for decades.
No, cheap clomid, Utah UT, we are not a cult. Please, ordering clomid online without prescription.
No, Maryland MD Md., District of Columbia DC D.C., we did not eliminate jobs in Michigan in order to create jobs in China. Nor do we hide behind overseas tax shelters, Washington WA Wash.. Clomid prescription, Quite frankly, we are proud of our global expansion and continue to prosper here at home, Maine ME Me.. Ordering clomid online, See several of our previous posts for elaboration. Ordering clomid online without prescription, And no, we are not perfect. We have millions of independent business owners around the world marketing our products, New Mexico NM N.Mex.. Clomid online cheap, These entrepreneurs share the same ups and downs of the business world as does anybody else. We help them establish their businesses, order clomid, Buy clomid no prescription, and many choose to help themselves. We have rules and we enforce them, cheap clomid no prescription. Some of them make mistakes, and so do we, ordering clomid online without prescription. Clomid generic, But as a whole, day after day, North Carolina NC N.C., Buy clomid cheap, we try and make the business work better. That's how we've managed to grow for nearly 50 years, cheap clomid. Order clomid online without prescription, (Oh, and one other thing: the News' charts rolled together two kinds of sales figures: "estimated retail" and "actual sales." They are two very different numbers, and thus hard to put into a single chart. We can explain further if needed.)
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