Melaleuca - UK & International Business Opportunity

Melaleuca, The Wellness Company is an international manufacturer and marketer of unique health, home, and personal care products. Our company was founded in 1985, and our name is taken from Melaleuca Alternifolia that produces a naturally powerful essential oil. This oil is used in many of Melaleuca's health care, pharmaceutical, personal care, and home care products.

Since our founding, we also have developed almost 300 other products all using natural alternatives to grocery and drugstore brands, designed to help consumers live healthier lives. Our exceptional line of nutritional, home cleaning, and bath and body care products has enabled us to grow rapidly and be recognized as a leader in the wellness industry. Our corporate headquarters are in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, yet our influence extends around the world.

The Melaleuca Mission

Our mission is to "Enhance the lives of those we touch," and we achieve this through our unique products and innovative home business opportunities. We love to help families succeed, so our customers use the ease of catalog shopping and word-of-mouth marketing to share wellness ideas with their friends. We call this Consumer Direct Marketing.

Melaleuca's History

Melaleuca has proven to be an American business success story over the past 17 years. Since our founding in 1985 to help the world discover the benefits of Melaleuca Oil, we have become the premier North American company in offering a broad range of wellness products. To view the highlights of our company history, scroll down the timeline below.

1985 -- Melaleuca founded with just seven employees and one product-T36-C5 Melaleuca Oil.

1990-94 -- Melaleuca is ranked among the Inc. 500 five years in a row before growing too large to qualify a sixth time. Melaleuca is one of just a handful of companies to be ranked five times with an "A" profit rating every year they appeared on the list.

1991 -- Melaleuca is awarded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award. Melaleuca was singled out for its ability to succeed in the face of tremendous economic challenges.

1991 -- Melaleuca begins its tradition of the Melaleuca Freedom Festival, a Fourth of July celebration that honors the sacrifices of millions of servicemen and their families on behalf of America. It has since grown to include the largest fireworks display west of the Mississippi River.

1992 -- Melaleuca opens its Knoxville TN manufacturing and distribution Center to better serve the Eastern United States.

1993 -- Melaleuca introduces Vitality for Life, a wellness program designed to improve our customer's health and wellness with research-formulated products and nutritional supplements.

1994 -- Melaleuca opens for business in Canada.

1995 -- Melaleuca begins its Executive Travel service to pass on savings and discounts for airfare, hotel stays, and other vacation or business travel needs.

1997 -- Melaleuca of Taiwan opens for business.

1997 -- Melaleuca introduces PROVEXCV, completing more than two years of exhaustive research and clinical trials. The compelling evidence that proves the effectiveness of PROVEXCV in blood platelet inhibition is still growing today.

1998 -- Melaleuca of Japan opens for business.

1998 -- CEO Frank L. VanderSloot is given the distinguished Community Service Award by the Boy Scouts of America.

1998 -- Idaho State University recognizes CEO Frank L. VanderSloot as Idaho's Business Leader of the Year.

1999 -- Melaleuca partners with renowned fashion designer Nicole Miller to create a natural skin care and cosmetics line.

2001 -- Founder and CEO Frank L. VanderSloot is selected as the Ernst and Young Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year.

2001 -- Melaleuca of Australia opens for business.

2001 -- Melaleuca inducted into the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame.

2004 -- Melaleuca of UK opens for business.

Six Key Areas of Wellness

Melaleuca is dedicated to helping you find balance and health in many areas of your life. Using our products can directly affect the health of your family and your finances... and can indirectly help you improve your social, intellectual and inner wellness.

Physical Wellness: With over 300 wellness products, Melaleuca leads the market with solutions for your nutritional, health, personal care, cosmetic, and home care needs.

Financial wellness: Melaleuca offers concentrated products that are priced to save you money over grocery store brands. Our Consumer Direct Marketing is a cost-effective method of shopping, saving you time and eliminating hassles. You can use our money-saving services to save on travel arrangements, long-distance telephone bills, Internet service and more. Melaleuca understands the importance of financial balance and is dedicated to helping you find time and money for what matters most.

Family Wellness: As you improve your physical wellness, reduce financial pressures and free up your time, you will find yourself in the best position to focus on the needs of your family.

Inner wellness: Melaleuca encourages everyone to live lives consistent with their personal values. As you achieve balance in other areas of your life you will find inner wellness and peace of mind.

Social Wellness: Recognizing the needs of others, helping others reach their goals, and valuing the contributions made by those around you is the basis for Melaleuca's mission.

Intellectual Wellness: A steady diet of good literature, music, art, and knowledge helps each of us improve the world we live in. The Melaleuca opportunity helps make the continuing pursuit of education possible.

In addition, Melaleuca strives to improve the wellness of our environment by using recyclable packaging and avoiding ecologically dangerous chemicals in our products. Using our products can increase the health of your household and reduce your impact on the environment.

Improvements in any of these areas will help bring more balance to your life. Melaleuca is committed to bringing a healthier future to families around the world.

Income Opportunity - Sharing Wellness With Others

When you see a great movie, are you excited to tell your friends about it? Do you recommend your favorite restaurant to your brother or tell your neighbor when there's a sale at the grocery store?

Melaleuca provides a business opportunity based on this same principle. When you find something good, you recommend it to your friends. The movie theater or the grocery store doesn't pay you to do it-but Melaleuca does. That's what we call Consumer Direct Marketing.

Introducing Products to Others

Melaleuca's financial opportunity is easy to understand. When you find a new customer and help them join Melaleuca, you will receive a commission on each order. The more customers you enroll, the more commissions you earn. Melaleuca also offers bonuses and incentives for helping other customers start a business.

This type of marketing has many advantages. Our convenient catalog delivery system allows health-oriented customers to shop for over 300 household products and have them delivered directly to their door. The customer does not pay for advertising, trucking, middle-man mark-ups or store display costs-and products cost less. In addition, since each order comes straight from the manufacturer, the products arrive fresh and you save time and money that otherwise would be spent in the grocery store or drugstore. You are sharing wellness with others each time you enroll a customer!

Achieve Financial Wellness

Most of us, at one time or another, have longed for the opportunity to be our own boss and have more control over our financial lives. To people all around the world, the thought of getting out of the 9-to-5 corporate mindset and taking over their own financial destiny has great appeal.

Unfortunately, more often than not, the biggest barrier preventing most people from generating income isn't a lack of desire, drive or initiative. It's simply a lack of money. Not having the financial resources needed to purchase basic business assets-inventory, equipment, real estate, etc. - means they can't produce income and get their businesses off the ground. The lack of start-up cash locks them, their children, and their children's children into a frustrating cycle of "working for the other guy" where they can never really get ahead.

However, Melaleuca is in the business of breaking that cycle and redistributing opportunity. We've created a unique business structure that allows you to begin earning additional income, achieve your dreams of self-sufficiency, and gain the flexibility and control you've always wanted. You don't have to worry about start-up costs and inventory-you simply begin referring customers to Melaleuca.

Thousands of average people have recommended Melaleuca's wellness products to their friends, and have started earning a residual income. We celebrate and publish the accomplishments of our Marketing Executives in our annual income statistics report. Their income may help them pay for gas and groceries during the month, provide dance lessons or braces for their children, save for college education or retirement, or may even replace their full-time income. By alleviating these financial pressures they can focus on the things in life that are more important than money.

Further information: www.melaleuca.com/