The Lottery Authority in Norway is a government agency responsible for illegal marketing, illegal gaming and pyramids.
The next letter is send to Lyoness, and underlaying divisions: Lyconet and CashBack World (Google translation):
Notification of decision sent to Lyoness.
On 11 January 2018, the Lottery Authority has sent notice of a decision to terminate Lyoness’s operations in Norway.
Notification of decision sent to Lyoness Notification of decision is addressed to Lyoness Europe AG and Lyoness Norway AS, but will also include 150,000 Norwegian participants and 1,000 loyalty companies included in the Lyoness sales system in Norway.
Illegal pyramid-like sales system
Based on the number of received tips in 2016 and 2017 and the content of these foundations, the Lottery Authority has assessed whether Lyoness is an illegal pyramid-like sales system pursuant to section 16, second paragraph, of the Lottery Act.
In the assessment, we have assumed that revenues from Lyoness’s business in Norway are mainly from the acquisition of participants, and not from sales or consumption of goods, services or other benefits.
Lottery Authority’s conclusion
In the notice of decision, the Lottery Authority concludes that Lyoness’s business in Norway is an illegal pyramid-like sales system pursuant to section 16, second paragraph, of the Lottery Act.
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Lyoness Announces Partnership with Italian Soccer Club AS Roma
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Italian soccer club AS Roma entered into a strategic partnership with Cashback World, a rewards card operated by shopping community Lyoness.
The financial service will be the official cashback partner of Roma from the start of 2018. The Serie club joins Cashback World’s international shopping network via the AS Roma Cashback Program, which will offer its fans up to five per cent cashback or shopping points when used in the club shop or acquiring tickets.
A small percentage of each purchase made by members of the AS Roma Cashback Card program will go towards supporting the club’s various charitable initiatives.
Neither the financial terms nor the duration of the contract have been made public.
“We’re delighted to have agreed this unique partnership,” said Umberto Gandini, Roma’s chief executive.
“This arrangement with an industry giant such as Lyoness underlines how much importance we place on our fans, who will now be able to take advantage of a host of new opportunities and fantastic offers.”
AS Roma came second in Serie A in 2016/17, Eusebio Di Francesco’s side currently occupy fourth place in the league in 2017/18.
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The Lyoness Group is dividing its three business areas into two brands: The Lyoness brand encompasses the shopping community and the loyalty program.
Their
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Mario Oreggia Achieves $590,000 Per Month With Lyoness – Lyconet
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Lyconet is the network marketing arm of Lyoness and recently their number 1 Top producer Mario Oreggia achieved est. $590,000 per month.
Mario who was born in Italy spent his years, before he got started in network marketing, in the restaurant business waiting tables, working along side his mother, father, and 2 brothers.
At the age of 24, Mario started searching for a better opportunity. Initially, his parents weren’t that supportive as they wanted him to stay with the family business, but eventually became supportive of his decision, although they didn’t understand the profession.
Ever since Mario was a little boy he was entrepreneur minded and wanted to be in business for himself. Once Mario found his opportunity he worked hard at building, and in his first year, he made 150 Euros, and he has been on the rise ever since.
Mario has developed over 5,000 leaders and has grown his network to 1.5 million members, and he has achieved this in just 7 years. His advice,
“See this business like a real business, have a lot of self-motivation, give everything that you have, and never give up.”
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Lyoness And Just Energy Extend Partnership
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Canadian-based natural gas and electricity retailer Just Energy and the international shopping community Lyoness bring Canadian Lyoness members access to preferred energy prices and products.
Just Energy has extended its partnership with Lyoness to offer exclusive natural gas and electricity supply programs to Canadian shoppers. With one of the biggest shopping communities worldwide, Lyoness successfully leverages its large membership to create unique purchasing opportunities for home and business consumers. The partnership provides Canadian customers with access to Just Energy’s preferred natural gas and electricity rates and products.
Just Energy first launched its partnership with Lyoness in 2015 in the United States to offer members competitive rates, superior customer service, seamless switching and special incentives.
“We are excited to be able to extend this offering to our Canadian market,”
says Kate Atkinson, Just Energy’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, Canada.
“We are always exploring opportunities to add value for customers and enhance the choices available to a whole new market of energy consumers with exclusive offers for residential and business customers.”
“Lyoness sought a partner who would offer the best energy services and products to our Shopping Members,”
says Maciek Zausz, Managing Director for Lyoness Canada.
“Just Energy filled all the criteria and we’re pleased that
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Lyoness Plans To Appeal Against Swiss Pyramid Decision
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According to an article in TT.com an magazine in Austria, Lyoness has stated it plans to appeal the decision from the Swiss Court that the company compensation plan is a Pyramid – Snowballl system.
The google translation, partly edited:
Against Lyoness, main sponsor of the Austrian football club Rapid Wien, is an other civil law judgment. This time, the Swiss Obergericht Zug has described Lyoness as a snowball system. Members would only receive money when they recruited other members. Moreover, the business model is intransparent. The judgment is not final.
Lyoness had resisted a corresponding judgment of the lower court and has now cut off with the complaint. A judgment of the Supreme Court of the Canton of Zug (APA), dated February 28, is entitled to appeal “if a legal question is of fundamental importance”.
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Lyoness Establishes New Sports Cooperation In Europe
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The Slovakian multiple ice hockey champion HC SLOVAN Bratislava and the Czech first division football club SK Slavia Praha are the new partners of the international shopping community Lyoness. The Cash back Programs agreed upon with both clubs offer participants attractive shopping benefits with thousands of loyalty merchants worldwide.
In the course of two press conferences on 15th and 16th December 2015 in Bratislava and Prague the joint Cashback Program was presented to the public in detail. “The model for this cooperation is the successful cooperation with SK Rapid Wien and the Österreichischer Golf-Verband (Austrian Golf Association)”, explains Silvia Kelemen Weihs, Head of Public Relations at Lyoness.
“We offer our partners a strong loyalty program from which both, the clubs and their members and fans can benefit.” One card, many benefits.
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Lyoness Successfully Wins Case In Australia
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Lyoness has won a court case against the consumer watchdog, which accused the company of operating a pyramid scheme and engaging in referral selling. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission initiated the proceedings against the Austrian company in August last year.
In his judgment in the Federal Court today, Justice Flick said there could be “no doubting the fact that inducements were held out to prospective members that they would ultimately receive financial benefits other than the discounts they received on purchases made from loyalty merchants”.
However, the court found that any entitlement was dependent not on the introduction of new members, but from those new members engaging in shopping activity. The ACCC also failed to establish that people could become members only by making down payments.
The court made similar findings about referral selling
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Lyoness Refutes Pyramid Allegations In Estonia
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On 13 October 2015 Radar Channel 2 in Estonia featured a report alleging that Lyoness was operating a pyramid scheme and provided the case of a group of hearing impaired people who claimed to have been misled by representatives and lost money. A consumer protection board in Estonia has reportedly ordered a refund by the company to some of these hearing impaired individuals.
Lyoness has responded to these allegations by refuting all claims of operating a pyramid scheme.
In its response Lyoness states that it has now been operating for over 12 years and in 46 countries and has become one of the world’s largest shopping communities. The company has more than five million members and over 50,000 loyalty merchants around the world.
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Lyoness Teams Partners With Just Energy Group
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Just Energy Group Inc. is pleased to announce a new partnership with Lyoness to offer exclusive natural gas and electricity supply programs to its membership.
With the biggest shopping community worldwide, Lyoness successfully leverages its large membership to create unique purchasing opportunities for home and business consumers. The new partnership provides customers with access to Just Energy’s preferred natural gas and electricity rates and products.
A leading North American energy management solutions provider, Just Energy specializes in electricity, natural gas, solar and green energy for almost two million customers across North America and the UK. Customers that enroll in an energy program through Lyoness will benefit from:
Competitive rates
Superior Customer Service
Seamless Switching
Special Incentives
“We’re excited to partner with Lyoness to offer its membership the benefit of discounted pricing and customized products,” says Al Shulman, VP of Marketing at Just Energy.
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Lyoness Develops Program To Help Small & Medium Sized Businesses
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As part of its loyalty program for loyalty merchants, Lyoness increasingly focuses on the area of SME. With the Lyoness Solution Pack SME partners receive marketing solutions which are reserved otherwise to large companies: Efficient tools to gain new customers and retain loyal customers. “This way, also SMEs can implement a professional and personal customer management and, thus, achieve a sustained profit increase“, says Harald Koch, Member of the Board Lyoness Group AG.
Lyoness Solution Pack
The SME service package’s basis is a tablet with a specifically developed app providing a variety of functions for customer binding. A set of customer cards branded with the respective company logo allows Lyoness members to use all Lyoness benefits at all loyalty merchants. In addition, SMEs are provided different modules for their professional new and regular customer management: With the CRM system (Customer Relationship Management) by Salesforce – the worldwide leading provider for CRM solutions – amongst others, newsletters can be sent to selected loyal customers and customer satisfaction surveys can be implemented.
Furthermore, market- and customer-specific statistics and sectoral comparisons can be collected so as to use the data for target group optimized marketing strategies and decisions. Besides all this, SMEs can advertise online sales campaigns and will shortly be able to offer target group