Mark R. Hughes

Mark Reynolds Hughes (born 1 January 1956 in Lynwood, California, † 21 May 2000, Malibu, California ) was an American businessman and entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of Herbalife International Ltd., a company that dietary products, nutritional supplements and cosmetics markets by network marketing.

Biography

In 1976 Hughes, diet products named Slender Now for sale. The products were manufactured by Seyforth Laboratories. The company sold its products in direct sales, which means that an independent representative products buys cheap and sells them then end-users (consumers). Each independent dealer got a fee if he / she recruited a new representative. Mark Hughes used this method years later to build Herbalife. After three years, the company Slender Now, however, went bankrupt. Hughes then sold fitness equipment and diet products for another company before settling with Richard Marconi, a colleague of Slender Now, joined together to found the Los Angeles-based company Herbalife in February 1980. Hughes often mentioned that the drive to the founding of the company his mother JoAnn was death ( she died when he was 18 ); she had died due to an unintentional overdose of prescription diet pills. Your autopsy shows that she died from an overdose of the painkiller Darvon. Hughes started selling Herbalife products of his car - five years later he was a millionaire. He marketed his products on television by testimonials from people, the positive reports about taking Herbalife products told (see testimonials ).

Hughes died at age 44 at his home in Malibu ( CA ) from an overdose of alcohol and the antidepressant doxepin. At this time he was married to his fourth wife, Darcy LaPier. He had a son named Alexander, who comes from his previous marriage with Suzan Schroder.