Herbalife History

Herbalife’s 29 year history has helped millions of satisfied customers achieve their ideal weight and maintain it with scientifically advanced weight-management programs. Herbalife International is a total wellness company offering high quality weight loss, weight gain, weight management, nutritional and personal-care products. Herbalife products are sold by a team of more than one-million independent herbalife distributors in more than 65 countries worldwide. History has proven that Herbalife’s products are safe, effective and life-changing.

The history of herbalife is outlined below:

* Herbalife’s history began in 1980 when Mark Hughes sold the Herbalife weight loss products from the trunk of his car
* Two years later Herbalife reached $2,000,000 in sales and opened a distributorship in Canada. Canada was the first country after the USA
* In 1986 Herbalife became a publicly traded company via NASDAQ
* Herbalife’s successful history continued and in 1996 Herbalife reached $1,000,000,000 in annual sales
* In 2000, Mark Hughes died at the age of 44 from an accidental mix of alcohol and prescription sleeping pills. Herbalife continued to grow on its successful history after the death of Mark Hughes
* In 2003, Michael O. Johnson joined Herbalife as CEO. He had worked 17-years for Walt Disney after ending his career as president of the Walt Disney Company.
* On December 16, 2004 the company had an initial public offering on the NYSE
* In April 2005, the company celebrated its 25th anniversary

The company operates in 65 countries and has 2,500 employees and claims to have more than one million independent distributors.