If you’re a fan of figure skating, you likely know Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the Chinese pair that struck gold in Vancouver last February.
They’ve been skating together in international competition for nearly 20 years. And once again all eyes will be on them tomorrow evening in Beijing for ARTISTRY on Ice an event sponsored by ARTISTRY Cosmetics and Amway China.
This could be one of their most meaningful performances – it’s certainly not a routine. The couple will exchange wedding vows on the ice Saturday night surrounded by a line-up of figure skating superstars and in front of their adoring fans.
There’s been lots of excitement and buzz surrounding the show. If you’re lucky enough to be attending you’ll experience a once in a lifetime event, and you’ll be able to see the ARTISTRY brand zone on site.
Interesting research was released yesterday in Europe about Omega-3s, the heart healthy nutrient found in fish oil. Doctors say that giving fish oil to patients with heart conditions could save 10,000 lives a year. The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph reported about the study that was released in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Health.
The data was compiled over a four and a half year period. 7,000 heart failure patients were given either one gram of fish oil capsules per day along with their regular medication, or a placebo. The result: a nine percent reduction in deaths among those taking the fish oil supplements. Hospital admissions also dropped.
These are considered significant results. They are expected to be used as guidelines for treating heart failure in Europe. Omega-3s in fish oil are thought to act as an anti-inflammatory that helps to relax blood vessels and ease the heart’s workload. This research seems to bear that out, and it could cause practitioners to (re)evaluate their approach to heart health, and Optimal Health — something Nutrilite strongly believes in.
“Qi” means ‘vital energy’ in Asian philosophy, making it a fitting symbol for the wireless power standard announced today in Hong Kong.
Like Bluetooth for wireless connectivity, Qi (pronounced “chee”) will be the global standard for wireless charging. The Qi symbol will indicate that a device – regardless of manufacturer – is compatible with any Qi standard charger. Which means you will be able to charge your Qi-enabled mobile phone anywhere there’s a Qi charger – from a taxi in Tokyo to an airport in Amsterdam.
Our Fulton Innovation group, which pioneered our eCoupled wireless power technology, has been the lead partner in the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which developed the Qi standard. More than 60 global companies worked together to create the Qi standard in about 18 months.
“We’re proud to have played a significant role in helping develop version 1.0 of the Qi standard,” said Dave Baarman, Director – Advanced Technologies for Fulton Innovation. “Full interoperability between low-power device manufacturers and infrastructure OEMs worldwide is now a reality.”
It’s just 30 days to the opening of the Amway Center in Orlando, and the countdown has begun.
On 10/1, at 10:01 a.m., the Amway Center will officially open its doors.
If you’ve been watching the progress on the Amway Center’s videocams over the summer, you’ve seen the signs go up outside and all sorts of activity within the new facility.
Watch Amway Insider or the Amway Center web site for updates, or, follow @Amway_Center on Twitter.
Get a grip — on the monkey bars that is! Or, have some fun on the spiral slide and swings.
Thanks to the help of community volunteers, over 100 of them from Amway’s manufacturing and logistics teams alone, a new playground was built at York Creek Apartments. Now, more than 800 children can indulge in some serious play.
This is Amway’s ninth playground build with KaBOOM! — the seventh in West Michigan alone. And they all took less than eight hours to erect.
How will Amway China remain competitive in the future? By being innovative.
Eva Cheng, head of Amway’s greater China region, tells Newsweek that constant innovation and improvement will keep Amway’s business strong in China. She also fielded questions on how Amway has dealt with the challenges of doing business in China and what advice she has for women seeking advancement in business there.
This week the Amway for Thai Society Foundation announced a 400,000-baht sponsorship for library development for the Border Patrol Police School of Na Yaw village, Chachoengsao province. This school serves 530 students from kindergarten to grade 6.
This is the 23rd donation Amway has made to support Thai libraries, ensuring that students are well-read and well-equipped for their studies.
Business Today recently ranked Gurgaon, a prospering Tier II city in the Haryana state southwest of Delhi, one of the best places to live and work in India. For 122 visually-impaired students, Gurgaon is also one of the best places to attend school.
With the support of the Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF), AICB (Capt. Chandan Lal) Special School For The Blind opened the AOF-AICB Centre of Excellence. The Centre features computers equipped with specialized speech software that helps school-aged students hear words as they type. This enables them to hone basic computing skills and surf the web.
This is the first school centre of its kind in Gurgaon, and the 11th the AOF has opened throughout India. As quoted in the 20 August print edition of The Hindustan Times, the secretary general of the school, J.K. Kaul says:
“It is important in today’s time to be technically strong. This effort by the AOF will surely help out visually impaired children to learn with technology and upgrade their skills.”
The AOF’s vision is to enable less privileged children to lead better lives. These children in Gurgaon are a very big part of that vision.
Amway Taiwan created the R&J “brand” as a moniker for their coffee shop and gathering place in their Taoyuan Experience Plaza in 2004. It’s a tribute to the Amway founders who, you could say, brewed up one of the original social networks, but it has also become the handle for Amway Taiwan’s online community.
The R&J blog platform is a community website where Amway Taiwan distributors and Amway Taiwan corporate employees share blog posts and photos related to the Amway business and their personal lives. It was launched in November 2007 to create an online space where distributors could dialog with fellow business owners and prospects, and receive company product information and details about the business opportunity and other initiatives.
Distributors who achieve a specific level in the Amway business are given the opportunity to participate in the space. It further establishes their credibility as business owners and helps them create their own niche within the distributor community.
The blog platform has grown to include 457 members with 137 who are very actively engaging on the site. The site averages 53,771 page views and 4,922 visitors per month. Last year a famous distributor, and active member of the site, received 491,010 page views in one month.
The direct sales environment in Taiwan is very competitive. 50 percent of Taiwanese households have direct sales businesses, so finding unique opportunities to differentiate from the competition is an important success factor. The R&J blog platform helps accomplish this by creating a vibrant community that offers shared experiences and a casual customer knowledge base for business prospects or new business owners who need best practice examples and support to grow their Amway businesses.
Because company employees can post blogs and updates into the platform they are on equal footing with the distributor sales force in a shared, egalitarian space. This creates more trust in the company and familiarity with employees on the inside. It also makes it easier to communicate to thought leaders and influencers within the business who will spread information within their business spheres.
Vote for the R&J blog platform in the Forrester Groundswell awards. Your rating counts as one vote.
After three years of preparation and much anticipation, the Atmosphere Air Treatment System has launched in China.
This is the second Amway home tech product to launch there, following Queen Cookware (also known as iCook in other markets).
Amway China unveiled Atmosphere this month at the USA Pavilion at Shanghai Expo. It was the perfect spot for the launch not only because Amway China is one of the sponsors of the pavilion, but also because this product fits the Expo’s theme of “better city, better future.” Atmosphere spokesperson and actress Qinqin Jiang and Amway Greater China Region president Gan Chee Eng hosted the event.
It’s a breath of fresh air for Amway’s biggest market.
