On 26 December 2017, Melaleuca surpassed its first year of $2 billion in annual revenue.
Melaleuca first hit $1 billion in annual sales about six years ago. The company began in 1985.
Hundreds of Melaleuca, Inc. employees shot off thousands of strands of confetti Tuesday afternoon as they celebrated earning $2 billion in revenue for the first time.
Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot hosted a live Facebook broadcast as a large monitor tracked sales in real time leading up to $2 billion.
“We’ve been in great anticipation of this moment for many, many years and I just have to tell everyone thank you so much for the role you have played in getting us to this point,”
VanderSloot said during the broadcast. “This is just a milestone – it’s not a destination.”
VanderSloot said Melaleuca has been growing “like a rocket ship” over the past 24 months and pointed out that it took the company 19 years to make its first $500 million.
“Then it took us eight years to make our next $500 million, then five years to make $1.5 billion and it’s only taken us 14 months to get to two billion,” VanderSloot said. “We’ve never had this kind of growth.”
VanderSloot attributes Melaleuca’s growth to its employees and