doTERRA announced that Kirk Jowers is joining the company as Vice President of Corporate Relations. For the last 10 years Jowers has been the Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, in addition to serving as the University’s Director of Federal Relations, Chief Strategist for the Office of Global Engagement, and Co-interim Director of the University’s Middle East Center.
“We are very pleased that Kirk has chosen to join doTERRA,” said David Stirling, doTERRA’s President and CEO. “As the company continues its remarkable growth, someone with Kirk’s international, economic and regulatory experience will play a vital role in helping doTERRA manage the associated challenges and opportunities.”
Jowers adds: “doTERRA is an extraordinary company that empowers families with health solutions and products for enhanced well-being, provides thousands of people
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doTERRA Fast Growing, Sales Est. $325+ Million
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With more than 1,300 employees, 1 million distributors, and many million-dollar revenue days, doTERRA is dominating the essential oils industry. And with their brand new, state-of-the art campus in Pleasant Grove, they are building strong roots at home in Utah, USA.
doTERRA was previously awarded the 2013 Utah Valley Business of the Year by the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, was recently recognized by Pleasant Grove with the Mayor’s award and has now been awarded Business of the Year by Utah Valley BusinessQ.
The Q Awards celebrate Utah County’s top movers and shakers in 2014. There are six categories — Company of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Executive of the Year, Marketer of the Year, Philanthropist of the Year and Headliner of the Year.
“We are honored by the award,” states David Stirling, Founder
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FDA Issues Warning Letters To Reprimand False Claims
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Young Living and doTERRA distributors were reprimanded after the Food and Drug Administration FDA issued warning statements via overnight delivery to CEO Gary Young and David Stirling. Young Living and doTERRA both use independent distributors as a sales-force.
The majority of complaints the FDA issued in the warning letters involved the way some independent distributors marketed the companies’ products. Primarily, the FDA was concerned with Young Living and doTERRA consultants’ online marketing material for the brands’ essential oils.
According to FDA regulations, neither dietary supplements nor essential oils are allowed to be marketed by the company that sells them in such a way that it appears as though the products can prevent, cure or treat any disease. If a company does market in that manner, the product is considered a drug by the FDA. If a product is a drug, it must be approved by the FDA. So, any product marketed to cure, treat or prevent a disease, that is not already an FDA approved drug, is considered an illegal, unapproved drug by the FDA.
The FDA found that Young Living essential oils were marketed for “viral infections (including ebola), Parkinson’s disease, autism, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, insomnia, heart disease, post-traumatic stress disorder