HerbalifeCompany overview

First AOAC‑approved Aloin detection method developed by Herbalife

Herbalife’s proprietary method detects and measures aloins, naturally occurring anthraquinones in aloe vera, and has received official certification from AOAC International. Regulatory groups require producers of ingestible aloe products to monitor these compounds for safety. Herbalife’s testing process, developed by its scientists and validated by independent labs, tests every batch of aloe-based products. With this certification, Herbalife becomes the first company to have an AOAC-approved method for detecting aloins with a new standard in aloe quality and safety.

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New Herbalife Center of Excellence brings R&D and quality control

Herbalife Ltd. has opened its new Center of Excellence – Quality Control and Research and Development Labs in Torrance, California with a $7 million investment in science and innovation. The state‑of‑the‑art facility brings together research and development, sensory science, and quality control under one roof to speed up product innovation and quality assurance. Equipped with advanced analytical technologies and staffed by more than 40 scientists across multiple disciplines, the Center uses Herbalife’s commitment to science‑backed product development.

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Casa Herbalife program brings fun and fitness to Kobe children’s shelter

Through its philanthropic arm, the Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF), and in partnership with LA Galaxy, Herbalife led a fun, skills-based soccer clinic at the Kobe Jitsugyo Gakuin (KJG) children’s shelter in Japan. The shelter is a partner of the Casa Herbalife Program, which provides at-risk children with nutritious meals, educational resources, and safe environments. LA Galaxy players guided the clinic and inspire children to stay active and healthy while giving away autographed sports items.

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Herbalife signs agreement to get key health-focused companies

Herbalife Ltd announced that it has signed a binding memorandum of understanding to acquire all assets of Pro2col Health LLC and Pruvit Ventures, Inc., and will also take a 51% controlling ownership stake in Link BioSciences Inc. This strategic move expands Herbalife’s business footprint by bringing these three innovative health-focused companies into its portfolio.

(Source: Herbalife)

$400 million investment drives Herbalife one, a global digital platform

Herbalife Nutrition is investing $400 million in Herbalife One, a digital transformation initiative that will create a single platform for distributors and customers across different parts of the world. It is designed with modern technology and data-driven insights, and the platform will simplify processes, improve efficiency, and enhance the user experience. It shows features like easier distributor sign-ups, improved training, new shopping tools, wellness content, and community coaching.

(Source: Herbalife)

Digital Transformation Strategy

Herbalife focuses on transforming its distributor network digitally by providing them with insights, knowledge, and technology to better understand and connect with the customers, and grow their business. To implement this strategy successfully, they aim to capture as much consumer transaction data as reasonably possible.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

Understanding the Customers

Herbalife strives to improve its customers’ experience. They analyze customer transaction data to understand the goals, behaviors, and profiles of customers better.

Herbalife also plans to understand the customers’ product preferences. This data combined with artificial intelligence helps to auto-suggest the next best actions to the distributors as they build relationships with their customers. These activities are intended to improve customer activity and retention.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

Nutrition Clubs - A Nutritional Service

Herbalife has come up with ‘Nutrition Clubs’, brick and mortar locations owned and operated by distributors, where customers can visit and enjoy single servings of Herbalife products. Nutrition Clubs create a sense of community among distributors and are a great way to help the customers experience the products beforehand.

Herbalife has developed a suite of applications for these clubs called the Nutrition Club Experience. This feature allows distributors to provide an integrated physical and digital experience to their customers. Customers can place orders using their mobile devices and have their orders ready on arrival.

Software applications enable the multi level marketing distributors to operate their clubs more efficiently with a strong point-of-sale system and also deliver a personalized customer experience. With the point-of-sale system, distributors will receive customer information so that they can greet the customers by name and engage in healthy conversation.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

Data-driven Training

Herbalife focuses on building data-driven capabilities for its distributors. They are using the customer data such as goals, behaviors, and profiles of customers in distributor training. It helps the training team to figure out if that training has resonated with the distributors and whether it has translated into sales. This data drives the training team to create more tailored programs for distributors to meet their learning needs and effectively improve their conversion rates with customers.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

Bizworks - Tracking and Analysis Tool

Herbalife supports its distributors with the digital application called Bizwork. It helps distributors to analyze and track their business growth and downline performance. Bizwork uses predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to provide key insights to distributors, to help them manage their organizations. With Bizwork distributors get automated recommendations to follow up with their down line who require leadership support and guidance.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

Order Predictability

Herbalife has an order predictability AI tool that can notify distributors about the downlines who are likely to place an order, which could lead to additional volume. This tool is used by Herbalife’s most successful distributors too.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

Educating the Distributors

Herbalife educates its distributors all around the world, with a digital learning application called HNGrow. HNGrow has learning modules that can impact personal development in distributors, and educate them about products, nutrition, lifestyle, and the business. New distributors can take their businesses to the next level with the guided curriculum in HNGrow, showing them where they can focus their sales and leadership efforts. Experienced distributors continue to learn and grow their business with the application.

Herbalife plans to make this learning platform better by building personalized learning paths and content recommendations to distributors based on their tenure, the marketing plan level they're at, product knowledge, and business experience.

(Source: Herbalife Investor Day 2021)

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Pineapple The direct-selling industry can offer a flexible and low-cost way to earn extra income, where individuals decide for themselves how much time and effort they want to put into selling a product. Direct selling also enables a personalised experience and this is important for sectors like health and wellness.

—Steven Chin

Senior Director & General Manager at Herbalife Nutrition Malaysia & Singapore

Pineapple For 45 years, Herbalife has been committed to providing science-backed health and wellness products and a successful business opportunity.

—Stephan Gratziani

Herbalife CEO

Pineapple At Herbalife, we’re committed to cultivating meaningful careers and building a community that champions wellbeing, innovation, and purpose.

—Michelle Kwait

Chief human resources officer, Herbalife

Pineapple As the world’s largest active and lifestyle nutrition brand, the impact we have made in the world is truly incredible,” “Our scale and reach globally puts us in a unique position to become one of the world’s most important health and wellness platforms. Our belief in our business model and the value, service, and opportunity it provides is stronger than ever.

—Stephan Gratziani

Herbalife CEO

Pineapple If you want to compete with someone, compete with yourself. Be the best you possibly can every day.

—Mark Hughes

Herbalife Founder

Pineapple We've been investing in tools and technology to capture customer transactions for a while. But we're in the early stages of using data-driven capabilities to enable our distributors to cross-sell and upsell in an intelligent way driven by analytics and AI.

—John DeSimone

Chief Financial Officer, Herbalife

Pineapple We are continuing to invest in our CRM platform powered by Salesforce in the US, as well as other investments in internally developed tools, such as our proprietary POS tool and our customer loyalty program.

—John DeSimone

Chief Financial Officer, Herbalife

Pineapple The demand for customer data increased significantly across multiple applications. Our users not only wanted the data, but more importantly, the insights. And they wanted the insights in an easy to access way, which led us to the realization that we needed to modernize our infrastructure and change the way we're building our tools for our distributors.

—Frank Lamberti

Chief Commercial Officer, Herbalife

Pineapple At Herbalife, we've been building digital tools for more than 15 years now. Tools that support point of sale transactions, analytics, e-commerce capabilities, online wellness questionnaires and many other functions to support the success of our distributors and their customers.

—Frank Lamberti

Chief Commercial Officer, Herbalife

Pineapple Our distributors trust us to equip them with the tools and knowledge to help them build and grow their businesses, and with information literally at their fingertips, our distributors are able to provide knowledgeable and personalized support to their customers, enhancing their role as trusted wellness coaches

—Kent Bradley

Chief Health and Nutrition Officer, Herbalife

#1 active and lifestyle nutrition brand

World’s leading brand for active lifestyle and nutrition products.

95 markets worldwide

Herbalife operates in 95 countries around the world.

65,000 clubs

Herbalife’s distributors operate at approximately 65,000 clubs worldwide, with over 10,000 in the US alone.

140 product types

As of December 31, 2024, the company was marketing and selling about 140 products.

6.2 million members

Herbalife includes around 3 million preferred members and 2.1 million distributors in different markets.

0.2 million

Herbalife has about 0.2 million sales representatives and independent service providers in China.

6,000 first year distributors

Among approximately 6,000 first-year distributors, 50% earned more than about $154 per month. The top 10% earned more than about $1,144 per month and the top 1% earned more than $5,389 per month.

44,600 other U.S. distributors

Among approximately 44,600 other US distributors, 50% earned more than $268 per month. The top 10% earned about $4,982 per month, and the top 1% earned about $19,679 per month.