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Nutrilite

The best-selling brand of Amway, Nutrilite Story
is the world's No. 1 vitamins and dietary
supplements brand.* Nutrilite Organic Farm in El Petacal, Mexico
Backed by almost 90 years of science and
research, Nutrilite is committed to bringing diet improved people's health. This discovery propelled
the earth’s finest nutrients and health & Rehnborg to follow his quest to finally create the vitamin and
wellness solutions to people around the supplement brand in 1934.
world. Nutrilite is the only global vitamin Before founding Amway in 1959, the Amway co-founders, Jay
and dietary supplement brand to grow, Van Andel and Rich DeVos were both Nutrilite distributors for
harvest, and process plants on their own nearly a decade. By 1972, Amway had acquired Nutrilite.
certified organic farms.* Nutrilite brings Today, Amway scientists are committed to bringing together
nature and science together. traditional wisdom with the very latest scientific research.
But do you know that Nutrilite actually In the United States, Amway supports Stanford University to
traces its root back to China? Carl Rehnborg, establish the Wellness Living Laboratory. This is the world's first
the founder of Nutrilite, travelled and lived laboratory to study the impact of diet, lifestyle, behavior and
extensively in China in 1920s, and found, environmental factors on human health and well-being.
through observation and research, that And in China, the Amway Botanical Research Center located
people’s health was closely linked to the in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province has been invited to participate in
foods they ate, and that a plant-based several of China’s key national R&D projects of the “13th Five-
Year Plan”: such as mapping the chrysanthemum genome, and
Amway Botanical Research Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province modernizing Traditional Chinese Medicine.

* Source: Euromonitor International Limited; www.euromonitor.com/amway-claim

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