QUINCY, Washington, April 2, 2012 – Direct selling giant Amway has purchased 12 acres of land in Quincy, Washington (U.S.), to build a 48,000-square-foot extraction and concentration facility to process ingredients for nutritional products sold under its NUTRILITE® brand. The agreement includes an option for an additional 15 acres of property.

The purchase, approved by the Port of Quincy earlier this year, will allow Amway to break ground for the $31.8 million facility later this year and begin operations in early 2014. The new extraction and concentration facility is expected to create about 30 jobs in manufacturing and quality assurance.

The Amway Quincy facility will support its Washington-based Trout Lake Farm operations and replace its current extraction and concentration operation in Lakeview, California. The largest certified organic herb farm in North America, Trout Lake Farm provides blueberry, Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea angustifolia, oregano, peppermint, nettle and other plants used in NUTRILITE vitamins and nutritional supplements.

According to Jim Brundidge, director of nutritional product operations for Amway, locating the company’s extraction and concentration facility in Quincy creates supply chain efficiencies that will benefit Amway distributors and their customers through new processing technology and faster order delivery. 

“Quincy is an ideal location because it allows direct shipment of plant concentrates to our nutritional product manufacturing operations, including facilities in California, China and India,” Brundidge said. “We are excited to be part of the progressive business climate we’ve seen in Quincy and have been impressed working with the leaders of the Port of Quincy throughout our site location review process.”

Plant concentrates are used in nearly two-thirds of NUTRILITE products. Extraction and concentration is the mid step in the NUTRILITE seed to supplement process. Extracts are a category of botanical concentrates, the product of pressing phytonutrient materials from freshly harvested or dehydrated crops to separate liquids from solids. Liquids are evaporated from the extract to concentrate the phytonutrient solution. Liquid concentrates then are juiced or dried to form a powder.

The concentrates produced in Quincy will be used in products including NUTRILITE® DOUBLE X® Vitamin/Mineral/phytonutrient, NUTRILITE Daily Multivitamin Multimineral, and NUTRILITE Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables tablets.

About Nutrilite

NUTRILITE® is the world's No. 1 selling vitamins and dietary supplements brand* offered exclusively from Amway. The NUTRILITE brand is the only global vitamin and mineral brand to grow, harvest, and process plants on its own certified organic farms.** Farms are located in Washington, Mexico and Brazil. (www.nutrilite.com).

About Amway
Amway (amway.com) is one of the world's largest direct selling businesses. Alticor Inc., parent company of Amway, reported global sales of $10.9 billion in 2011. Founded in 1959 by entrepreneurs Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel, and based in Ada, Michigan, USA, Amway offers consumer products and business opportunities through a network of more than three million distributors in more than 80 countries and territories worldwide. The top-selling brands for Amway are NUTRILITE^® vitamin, mineral and dietary supplements, ARTISTRY^® skincare and colour cosmetics, and eSpring^® water treatment systems. The company provides product development, manufacturing and logistics services through its Access Business Group and Alticor Corporate Enterprises divisions. For company news, visit globalnews.amway.com.


*Source Euromonitor International Limited; Vitamins and Dietary Supplements, World, Retail Value

** "Source Euromonitor International Limited; Based on 2010 RSP sales (US$) of Vitamins and Dietary Supplements (VDS) across all retail channels.  VDS includes mineral supplements, fish oils, dietary supplements, tonics and bottled nutritive drinks and child-specific vitamins and dietary supplements. "Global Presence" for a brand is defined as having at least a 0.1% regional value share in a least four of the seven global regions. To challenge the claim, brand owners must at least partially own and control the production process, from farms where ingredients are grown to the plants were the brand is manufactured. Brand owners must not only own farms where inputs used in the manufacture of a brand are planted, grown and harvested, but these farms must also be organically certified. Based on Euromonitor research for Amway Corporation. To the extent permissible, Euromonitor does not accept or assume responsibility to any third party in respect of this claim."