Founded in 1980, Herbalife International () is a company that sells weight-loss and health products by multi-level marketing methods through distributorships. Distributors make money from retailing, and a residual income from their downlines' retail sales volume. The company was founded by Mark R. Hughes, who died in 2000, at the age of 44 of a prescription drug overdose.
In February 1980, Mark Hughes began selling the original Herbalife weight loss product from the trunk of his car. By 1982, Herbalife had reached $2,000,000 in sales and opened a distributorship in Canada, its first outside of the United States. In 1986 Herbalife became a publicly traded company via NASDAQ. Independent distributors' personal vehicles could be seen on the street, decorated by decals bearing the mysterious slogan "Lose weight now, ask me how!" In 1996 Herbalife reached $1,000,000,000 in annual sales. In 2000, Hughes died at the age of 44 from an adverse reaction to an accidental mix of alcohol and prescription sleeping pills. The company has continued to grow after his death.
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