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USANA Ratings

USANA Health Sciences is a Utah-based multi-level marketing company that has been publicly traded since 1992. The company was founded by Myron Wentz, Ph.D. It manufactures various nutritional and personal care products, selling these products from 13 countries around the world.

  1. Financial and Managerial Strength

    • USANA's nets sales for 2009 were $436.9 million, as reported by Seeking Alpha. The company's president and founder is a pioneer in cell-culture technology and has gathered together a team of executives and marketing managers as well as scientists with Ph.D. degrees.

    Product Quality and Effectiveness

    • USANA vitamins and products are engineered and manufactured by in-house scientists in an effort to maintain quality control. Among its accolades, in 2006, USANA Health Sciences was selected as official health supplement supplier to the women's tennis Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.

      To read about issues with USANA that have been raised, see Reference 1.

    Compensation Plan Ratings

    • USANA's compensation plan is a binary one. A salesperson selling the product needs to sponsor two people who subsequently work on sponsoring two more people.

      A novelty of the plan is that a successful person may end up helping less successful people to establish their two legs. The plan establishes a limit on how much product can be sold and how many people can be introduced to the business at the same time.

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