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'Michigan Governor’s Race' Posts
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006…
Yes, we’ve seen the new commercial.
The ad’s message and imagery are enough to make any Michigan business with global aspirations gag.
Nothing makes American companies stronger than opening new markets around the world. In this day and age, you can go global, or you can go broke.
That’s clearly not how the Luddites and xenophobes […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, September 8th, 2006…
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, 2005 Free Press column by Tom Walsh noting that between 1997 and 2005, our Michigan workforce went from 5,300 to 3,900. No […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, September 1st, 2006…
Mucho coverage of our announcement yesterday that we are going up statewide in Michigan with TV ads protecting the Amway name, which has become a political football this election season.
Because it is political season, all the furor has quickly gathered around the political questions: “Were you in cahoots with the campaign? Who’s your firm? This […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
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. Good piece. (Though no spokesperson, believe it or not, ever really enjoys being quoted.)
Now, we know that we should have blogged about the piece yesterday, especially because they mentioned the […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, August 4th, 2006…
We were pleased to see James Prichard’s corporate background story hit the wires this afternoon. One of the things that we constantly struggle with…is the complexity of this company, its business model, its product offerings, and its personalities. And that’s without the extra noise and controversy that’s been kicked up around the Michigan governor’s race. […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Access Business Group, Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race, Miscellaneous, Product Lines, Quixtar
Friday, July 21st, 2006…
Last week the Michigan Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on the case involving former shareholders of Amway Asia Pacific LTD.
Just a week later, 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 […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, July 14th, 2006…
Today’s Grand Rapids Press covers a legal hearing held yesterday in a Michigan court involving our company. Read the details in the article.
The Press is a quality paper, well-run and fair. Even so, this is a pretty good example of the kind of story that we think would be smaller news, at best, if one […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Thursday, July 13th, 2006…
Every workplace has a word that makes the entire organization crazy. Don’t know where you work, but you have one.
Our word is “pyramid.�
Did we mention it makes us crazy?
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 […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Friday, June 30th, 2006…
We’ve tried, but sometimes it takes a professional to explain these things.
Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press got the heart of the China issue exactly right today in his column.
As always, 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 […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
Saturday, June 24th, 2006…
This morning’s Detroit News carries the second part of a profile of our former president, Dick DeVos, who is running for governor in Michigan. Today’s piece focuses on our company, and Dick’s time here.
We read this morning’s article, just like you did, and just want to underline a few things:
No, we are not a pyramid […]
Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Michigan Governor's Race
