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ViSalus Expands Into Snack Category With The Launch Of Vi Bites

 
Celebrating over nine years of innovation, ViSalus is revolutionizing its snack category with its launch of Vi Bites™ – a bold, new wholesome snack option available in four original varieties. Introduced for the first time to thousands of Vi Promoters and Customers at ViSalus’s largest annual global event, Vitality 2014, Vi Bites provides delicious and convenient bite-sized snack options to support healthy living and help consumers achieve their Challenge goals.
Vi Bites comes in four varieties of delicious, crunchy and nutritious snacks that add more flavor variety to eating and more flexibility for on-the-go lifestyles. Each Vi Bites product is packaged for convenience, suitable for vegetarians, and includes no cholesterol, artificial sweeteners, preservatives or colors. Vi Bites come in both sweet and savory options to support both weight-loss and maintenance goals as well as active and fitness goals.  
The introduction of Vi Bites enables the company to leverage growth opportunities in the popular snack food category. Studies show that the average person consumes almost 600 calories a day from snacking[1], and that the consumer trend of snacking between meals continues to grow[2] with nearly 100% of people snacking at least once a day[3] and 70% of all adults in the U.S. snacking almost three

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Amway, Tupperware, And Oriflame Issue Notices To E-Commerce Sites

 
Direct selling firms are facing the heat from online retailers. Amway, Tupperware and Oriflame have issued notices to e-commerce sites including Snapdeal, Flipkart and eBay, asking them to stop selling their products.
The merchandise of these three direct sellers is not only offered at discounts as high as 40% but also bypass and strike at the very heart of the direct-sales distributor model that these firms follow globally.
In the direct selling model, there are no sales through traditional retail outlets — companies hire distributors who, in turn, sell products to consumers. Most times, errant distributors themselves supply unsold stocks to e-commerce sites and the firms are working to identify and penalise them.

“Oriflame products are not allowed to be sold by unauthorised persons, entities and means and we have issued notices to these ecommerce platforms that are selling our products. The sale of our products on these online platforms not only diverts sales from our distributors but also undermines the essence of direct selling as a proposition,” Vivek Katoch, director – corporate affairs at Oriflame, maker of cosmetics and personal grooming products, told ET. 

Katoch said from a consumer point of view, some products need recommendations and usage details, which is not possible with

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