Nu Skin Enterprises

Nu Skin Enterprises ( NSE short; NYSE: NUS ) is a US-based network marketing company, cosmetics, innovative anti -aging products, supplements sold by its own account in over 40 countries. It was founded in 1984 by Blake Roney M. and officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1996.

Roney founded the company with a group of friends and his sister Nedra with a starting capital of $ 5,000. At the beginning were offered about a dozen products that were delivered on order from the manufacturers and bottled by Roney and his partners in smaller containers and sold. In 1998, the company Pharmanex and Big Planet was bought. The company had a turnover of about 40 million U.S. $ to 1989. Then the company grew stronger and in 1996 generated a worldwide turnover of 678 million U.S. $. As a result, it was converted into a public limited company listed on the stock exchange.

First, the AG Nu Skin Asia Pacific was created, were sold to the then remaining subsidiaries. As a result of the acquisition of the rights of a " biophotonic scanner " called technology that will serve the measurement of the carotenoid content of the skin and thus the demonstration of efficacy of marketed by Pharmanex nutritional supplements, and sales rose to more than 1 billion U.S. $. The turnover in 2011 amounted to more than 1.7 billion U.S. $.

About the initiative Nourish The Children VitaMeal is distributed, which is described as specially developed for malnourished children food. With this project, more than 250 million " VitaMeal " were donated by business partners already. Each package feeds a child for a month and supplies it with all the essential vitamins, nutrients, and trace elements for healthy growth.