date:Jul 24, 2014
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Multilevel Marketing
In an interview, researcher Walter H. A. Vandaele, an economist at Navigant Economics LLC, said that 97 per cent of Herbalifes products are purchased for end-use consumption. That validates Herbalifes status as a multilevel marketing firm, rather than a pyramid scheme, he said.
Herbalife gave Vandaele, who worked for the FTC from late 1981 to early 1986, access to sales and order records for about 800,000 independent distributors who passed through He