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Understand what was monavie in the United States and Brazil, the company was considered one of the best in the industry until it made a series of mistakes and was bought by Youth.
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What is monavie?
A monavie is a controversial company in Brazil, it was structured through multi-level marketing and worked with direct sales of diet products, natural supplements and juices.
The company was born in 2003 in the United States, but in 2005 launched its main product, the famous concentrated fruit and açaà juice. The juice would have anti-aging properties!
In 2008, the American company arrived in Brazil, monavie had a close relationship with Brazil after all the açaà of its juice came from the Amazon. But there were a number of irregularities in the company, which we will explain further below!
In 2015, the Monavie was purchased by Youth Global enviroment, another straight sales company structured by multilevel marketing and selling similar products.
A Youth bought the monavie, as the company owed $ 182 million in loan.
monavie fraud
The newly formed company, with only two years, focused on the distribution of juices monavie. The products were not sold by employees, but distributors who received commissions based on the sale of the products.
For this reason, the company is called multi-level marketing, distributors were encouraged to set up their own sales network and recruit people to sell the products.
In theory the commission should be based on sales of products and not on the basis of individual recruitment of new distributors. But that was not what happened!
The company produced juices, cereal bars, energy drinks and the network's focus was based on quantity of products sold. Thus, if a distributor managed to sell 10 cereal bars or consumed those bars, he was classified at 1 level. The seller would be able to increase his network of distributors through of indications.
Therefore, the company focused more on promoting and publicizing the company's goals than on the value of the products. Caio Carneiro one of the representatives of Brazil made videos on YouTube to talk about the company's franchises. You can still find the videos!
One of Carneiro's most famous videos has been deleted. However, we found the transcript on a website, Caio said in this supposed video, that if people acquired the franchise would receive the investment value all in products. He focused a lot on selling the franchise and on enlarge your network here in Brazil.
In another company video, you can see some aggressive and misleading promising extra income of R $ 600 reais per month.
However, most people who bought the franchise did not reach this result of R $ 600,00 to month. The company has several complaints, has gone through police investigations and inquiries.
monavie products
monavie it sold concentrates of energy drinks, food supplements, diet products and juices in bottles. The most famous juice was açaÃ.
In the United States the company also had the certificate of food kosher (products according to Jewish laws). However, they began to investigate the value nutritional value of products monavie.
The products have been analyzed in laboratories and some studies have indicated that juices from monavie had low vitamin C e Antioxidants. The company defended itself and said that the juice had polyphenol antioxidants that came from açaÃ.
But there is no scientific evidence that polyphenol antioxidants are effective for the human diet. Therefore, the company's juices were classified as having no food value by the Food and Drug Administration.
Polyphenols are not absorbed by the human body, other more serious problems happened with this juice in the United States.
Caution!
There is a case of ingestion of juice by a person during pregnancy, the juice caused side effects and led the patient to cardiac hypertrophy and pulmonary hypertension. This juice was dangerous and had adverse effects on some people.
monavie story
You can follow the full story of monavie on Wikipedia and see how the company was extremely criticized in the United States.
However, they sold juice and supplements without nutritional properties, it was a fraud and people used misleading advertising in the United States and Brazil sometimes without knowing this information.
monavie fraud
Distributors spoke through testimonials and claims on the internet that the company's products prevent disease. Putting them as a solution to treat inflammation, high cholesterol problems, joint pain and muscle pain.
Advertisements about therapeutic properties circulated widely in the United States. However, it has been proven that juices did not treat diseases. Of this mode, the company violated advertising policies in the United States with this type of misleading advertising.
Another indication of the fraud came out in the Forbes in the year 2008, where was disclosed that the company was a pyramid scheme. So that only 1% of distributors really made money from the products. The other portion, the 99%, made money from referrals. That is, a pyramid!
Financial pyramid monavie
Many people cannot distinguish what was a financial pyramid and what was multilevel marketing.
At the time that monavie appeared in Brazil, it seemed the opportunity of the century to enter the company. You can find one of the videos from the presentation Caio Carneiro, one of the main recruiters of monavie in Brazil and see nthe comments reports talking about your presentation, see:
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Caio Carneiro, sold a business opportunity and explained about ways to earn with the company. The products monavie promised to fight aging, however as we said they had no antioxidant properties.
Os Antioxidants are substances that destroy free radicals and slow down the process of skin aging. Such as monavie it had no antioxidants in its products, the company's advertising was totally misleading.
monavie presentation
monavie it had forms of earnings that did not consider the direct sale of its products. A career plan was presented for people to buy products from monavie.
The products consumed were worth points, so thethe representatives encouraged people to consume the products and mark the "points" to move up the scale of the company [Watch minute 19:14 of the video Monavie - Caio Carneiro]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp5KWlHdms8
People could buy energy drinks, juices or other nutritional products to exchange for points. Apparently these points would turn into money, however the company ended.
monavie Still exist?
Not the monavie closed, was in debt and was bought by Youth Global. THE monavie fhi sued for misleading advertising in the United States, copyright violations, breach of contract and financial pyramid scheme.
The juice from monavie faced litigation against the brand Imagenetix. This company processed the monavie, were US $ 2,75 billion of dollars for violating a juice trademark.
MonaVie Active had the same ingredients as the Imagenetix brand.
A imagenetix made a patented blend of juice with esterified fatty acids and Monavie copied. The company was also sued by the host Oprah Winfrey, an action driven by false advertising on television.
However, Monavie went bankrupt in 2014 when it accumulated a debt of $ 182 million dollars.
monavie sv Youth
A Youth bought the monavie in 2015 the 2 companies are multilevel marketing. However, monavie it went bankrupt because of the company's series of mistakes.
The main representative of the monavie in Brazil, Caio Carneiro, works with Youth and continues to motivate people to join the company.
However, the Youth apparently makes a profit from the direct sale of the products and is still considered a multi-level marketing.
It is important to emphasize that some representatives can pass on the image of easy gain and fast with multilevel marketing, so always research about the quality of products and if they have value in the market. Do not fall for false promises of quick gain this is very common in financial pyramids!