Usana - MLM company

What is USANA?

1. USANA Nutritionals
   nutritional supplements, Essentials Optimizers
2. USANA Macro-Optimizer
   foods - drinks and bars
3. Rev3
   Energy drinks.
4. Sensé Basics, Sensé Enhancers
   cosmetics

Company employs approximately 1,000 people, and has 176,000 associates and so called "preferred customers" (according to wikipedia).

Usana uses so called binary plan - every person have at most two people directly under him in compensation structure. Those two people have at most two people too.

To get paid Usana associate must pay initial fee ($20-$50) - he gets "business starter kit" for that, then buy about $150 in products and order products for circa $120 monthly - according to Forbes.

In 2004, 2005, 2006 Forbes put USANA on "200 Best Small Companies" list.
In 2007 USANA was removed from that list, and in Forbes one could read an article named "Hard to Swallow" that questioned USANAs products and business.
Also in 2007 it was anther controversy, because Usana's executives made false statements about their education and certification.
Also in 2007 Barry Minkow, felon and now fraud buster, sent SEC 500 page long report, accusing USANA of being pyramid scheme. It caused informal SEC investigation, that ended without significant results.

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