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Recent events have taken the business beyond simply a
transformation. In addition to actions Alticor has taken to
move the business in new directions, certain IBOs have now
also taken actions that have complicated the picture. Here
are the latest details as we know them.
Court Rules in
Favor of IBOAI & Amway Global / Quixtar
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iboaiquixtar_court_ruling_82407.pdf
Former IBOAI Directors Orrin
Woodward, Billy Florence, Don Wilson, Randy Haugen, Chris
Brady and Chuck Goetschel Ordered to Cease Breaching
Confidentiality
Wednesday August 15, 2007
A Temporary Restraining Order Pending
Arbitration was sought by the Independent Business Owners
Association International
(IBOAI) and granted on August 14, 2007 in a
Michigan district court, preventing former IBOAI directors
Orrin Woodward, Billy Florence, Don Wilson, Randy Haugen,
Chris Brady and Chuck Goetschel from continuing to engage in
breach of their fiduciary duty, breach of contract and
violation of the Michigan Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
The IBOAI presented evidence to the Court
that Woodward, Florence, Wilson, Haugen, Brady and Goetschel,
whose businesses were recently terminated by Amway Global (see http://tinyurl.com/2tbbyw),
had already disclosed “confidential information and
trade secrets which the Defendants could only have learned
as a result of their membership and activities on the IBOAI
Board.”
The Court concluded, in its Temporary
Restraining Order, that “the actions of the Defendants will
result in immediate and irreparable harm to the Plaintiff
(and its members)” and ordered Defendants, within five
business days of being served, to “return to the Plaintiff
or its counsel all of the Confidential Information in their
possession, whether in hard copy form, electronically, or
otherwise.”
Joint
Statement Regarding Team
Friday, August 10, 2007
Amway Global, North American Founders Council,
and Independent Business Owners Association International
Board of Directors Joint Statement Regarding Team
The North American Founders Council (NAFC) and
Independent Business Owners Association International
(IBOAI) are proud to represent the Amway Global business
opportunity, especially during this exciting period of
transformation in our business. Unprecedented investments by
Amway Global are poised to help make our businesses stronger than
ever – more than $60 million in new money in Amway
Global Business Incentives, launch of training to help make IBOs
more successful, and exciting new product and category
launches. Overall, the company is spending more than $200
million in product development, brand building, training and
compensation enhancements to make this business opportunity
bigger and more successful than ever.
We are disappointed that the founders of the Team
training organization, Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, and
other IBOs affiliated with Team, have refused to move
forward with the Amway Global business into this new and
promising future. Given Team's unwillingness to work with
the corporation to remedy their bad business-building
practices, their stated intent to start a competing MLM and,
ultimately, their decision to file baseless litigation
against the business opportunity from which they have
profited for years, the NAFC and IBOAI fully support
Amway Global's
decision to terminate these
IBOs' businesses. The terminations of Woodward, Brady, Billy
Florence, Don Wilson, Randy Haugen, Chuck Goetschel, Tim
Marks, Kirk Birtles, James Martin, Aron Radosa, David
Brandy, Benjamin Dickie, Bruce Gilbank, Michael Martenson,
and Chuck Cullen will help correct practices that put
Amway Global and all IBOs at serious and immediate risk of legal
and regulatory action.
The NAFC and IBOAI stand firmly with Amway Global in an
unwillingness to put our business and the businesses of
hundreds of thousands of IBOs at risk of legal and
regulatory action caused by Woodward and Brady’s practices.
We believe the Amway Global business is the best business
opportunity in the world. We are prepared to work with the
corporation and other IBOs who remain committed to their
businesses as we move through this period of transformation
to become stronger and more profitable, helping more
individuals than ever before achieve success with a
Amway Global-powered business of their own.
Other News Releases from Amway Global
August 10, 2007 -
Amway Global TAKES SWIFT
ACTION
ADA, Mich., August 10, 2007 – Amway Global announced this
morning the termination of 15 independent businesses as a
result of actions detrimental to the company’s North
American operations. The businesses affected were part of
the Team training organization...
August 10, 2007 -
Amway Global Statement:
Team
After working with Team training organization founders,
Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, on issues related to
teaching by the organization on positioning of the business,
the practice of “stacking,” or inappropriate depth-building,
the use of unauthorized...
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