Network TwentyOne
{{Short description|Training and support organisation}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Network Twentyone
| logo = Network TwentyOne logo.jpg
| logo_size = 250px
| type = Private
| foundation = 1989
| founder = Jim & Nancy Dornan
| location = Atlanta, Georgia, United States
| area_served = Worldwide
| industry = Education
| homepage = [http://www.n21corp.com/ n21corp.com]
}}
Network Twentyone, is a training and support organization{{cite web|url=http://www.n21corp.com/Overview.aspx|title=Network TwentyOne International|website=www.n21corp.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-27}} for distributors working with the Amway business.{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= James W.|title= Empire of Freedom: The Amway Story and What It Means to You|url= https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi|url-access= registration|publisher= Prima Publishing |year= 1997 |isbn= 0-7615-1088-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi/page/6 6–7]}}{{cite book |last= Saxena|first= Rajan|title= Marketing Management|publisher= McGraw-Hill |year= 2005|isbn= 978-0-07-059953-6|page=751}}{{cite video | people=Henryk Dederko (producer) | date=1997 | url=http://www.filmweb.pl/f219342/Witajcie+w+%C5%BCyciu!,1997 | title=Witajcie w zyciu! (Welcome to life!) | medium=documentary | location=Poland | publisher=Contra Studio}} It was founded in 1990 by Jim and Nancy Dornan, distributors with Amway, originally to support their Amway network in the United States and Australia.{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= James W.|title= Empire of Freedom: The Amway Story and What It Means to You|url= https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi|url-access= registration|publisher= Prima Publishing |year= 1997 |isbn= 0-7615-1088-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi/page/148 148]}} Network Twentyone provides complete "turnkey business support solutions" for Amway Independent Business Owners from meetings and function production including education, recognition and motivation to web applications and multi-media products designed to aid you in building a profitable Amway business. These materials are often referred to as Business Support Material (or "BSM"). BSM are promoted to a captive market represented by fellow IBOs ("Independent Business Owners") as well as potential IBOs, creating an opportunity for an additional and independent source of income to that derived from bonus payments arising from the sales generated within the network. The income of those who have reached significant levels can be substantially more through the sales efforts of BSM, to several or perhaps many IBOs{{cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2008/1054.html |title=Secretary of State for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform v Amway (UK) Ltd [2008] EWHC 1054 (Ch) (14 May 2008) |publisher=Bailii.org |date= |accessdate=2022-09-07}} Network TwentyOne operates in more than 40 countries and is considered one of the largest adult education organizations in the world.{{cite news|title=UK threatens to ban Amway|first=Lee|last=Lupo|work=The Muskegon Chronicle|location=Grand Rapids|date=July 1, 2007|url=http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2007/07/united_kingdom_investigates_am.html}}V Sloveniji imamo dva smaragda, pa še nic diamantov : Network 21 alias Amway - najvecja svetovna mreža (In Slovenia we have two emeralds, diamond is still waiting: Network 21 aka Amway - the world's largest network of agents), Gorenjski Glas, Issue 52, 1997, p.21
History
Jim & Nancy Dornan began an Amway business in 1971.{{cite journal|journal=The Christian Businessman|title=The Secret to My Success|date=May 1998|pages=28–34}} After their son Eric was born with severe birth defects they rapidly built one of the largest Amway businesses in North America. In the late 1980s and early 90s Amway began to expand and the Dornans decided there was an opportunity to develop a support system to work with Amway internationally.,.{{cite journal|journal=PROFESIONALNA Prodaja (Professional Sales|title=Nov posel za nov svet (New Business for the New World)|date=April 2000|pages=6–8|issn=1318-976X}} In 1990 they founded Network 21 with a goal to build a business system "that ignores borders and languages". Initially based in the US and Australia, Network 21 expanded rapidly in Eastern Europe,{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= James W.|title= Empire of Freedom: The Amway Story and What It Means to You|url= https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi|url-access= registration|publisher= Prima Publishing |year= 1997 |isbn= 0-7615-1088-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi/page/112 112]}} China, Indonesia, Turkey, PhilippinesNetwork 21 Starts Today, Manila Standard, 19 Sep 1997, p.18 and later India.
In 1997, Network 21's "training material" was depicted in the Polish film Welcome to Life.{{cite web|url=http://www.money.pl/gospodarka/wiadomosci/artykul/quot;amwayquot;;wygral;z;dederka,244,0,50676.html|title="Amway" wygrał z Dederką|date=10 December 2001 }} The director and producer were later acquitted on the charge of disseminating false information.".{{cite web|url=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1345,title,Przerazajacy-film-o-praniu-mozgow-nie-w-Warszawie,wid,11589486,wiadomosc.html|title = Wiadomości z kraju i ze świata – wszystko co ważne – WP}}{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}}{{Cite news|title=Ban on Film Has Poland Debating Censorship|first=Jane|last=Perlez|work=The New York Times|location=Warsaw|date=June 14, 1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/world/ban-on-film-has-poland-debating-censorship.html?pagewanted=1}}{{Failed verification|date=May 2011}} The film, banned for 12 years, was one of the highly anticipated movies of 2009's Warsaw Film Festival and was described in the press by one of the promoters as a "scary movie about brainwashing" that depicts hard-sell "pep rallies" and distributors stating meetings were operated similar to the Communist Party{{Cite news|title=Ban on Film Has Poland Debating Censorship|first=Jane|last=Perlez|work=The New York Times|location=Warsaw|date=June 14, 1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/world/ban-on-film-has-poland-debating-censorship.html?pagewanted=1}}{{Cite news|title=Ban on Film Has Poland Debating Censorship|first=Jane|last=Perlez|work=The New York Times|location=Warsaw|date=June 14, 1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/world/ban-on-film-has-poland-debating-censorship.html?pagewanted=2}} and methods of recruitment that confusingly resembled those of a sect.{{cite web |url=http://www.plejada.pl/2,24876,news,1,1,witajcie-w-zyciu-film-o-amwayu-wycofany-z-wff,artykul.html |title="Witajcie w życiu", film o Amwayu wycofany z WFF - Film - Plejada - Sprawdź, co słychać w show-biznesie |accessdate=2011-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722134910/http://www.plejada.pl/2%2C24876%2Cnews%2C1%2C1%2Cwitajcie-w-zyciu-film-o-amwayu-wycofany-z-wff%2Cartykul.html |archive-date=2011-07-22 }} A best-seller on the local video black market.,{{cite news|title=Ban on Film Has Poland Debating Censorship|first=Jane|last=Perlez|work=The New York Times|location=Warsaw|date=June 14, 1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/world/ban-on-film-has-poland-debating-censorship.html?pagewanted=1}} the film was later banned and its producers fined for using Network 21's copyrighted material. As of 2009 the film was still banned due to an ongoing case brought by "private individuals" ridiculed in the film.{{cite web |url=http://www.amway.pl/news?news_id=11226&back_uri=/ |title= Amway (Pl) - OŚWIADCZENIE|website=www.amway.pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903233612/http://www.amway.pl/news?news_id=11226&back_uri=%2F |archive-date=2011-09-03}}
In May 2007, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) petitioned to ban Network Twentyone and Amway after a year-long investigation alleging practices revolving around distributors being more focused on selling their motivational books, tapes and seminars to salespeople than peddling Amway merchandise. The complaint also focused on recruitment tactics that inflate income estimates for new salespeople. The petitions were dismissed after certain "defects of the old business model" were changed such as Amway allowing "misrepresentations" of its business by independent sellers in years past and failing to act decisively against the misrepresentations.{{cite news|url=http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/05/uk_dismisses_claims_against_am.html|title=U.K. judge dismisses claims against Amway|last=Knape|first=Chris|date=May 14, 2008|work=The Grand Rapids Press|location=Grand Rapids|access-date=2010-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202090225/http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/05/uk_dismisses_claims_against_am.html|archive-date=2008-12-02|url-status=dead}}{{Cite court
|litigants=The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v AMWAY (UK) LIMITED
|court=SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL
|opinion=[2009] EWCA Civ 32
|date=January 29, 2009
|url=http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2009/32.html
}}
Business Operations
Network 21 publishes and distributes books and audio/visual training based programs and coordinates seminars for clients in 35 countries. Members refer to themselves as "network builders"{{cite book |last1= Priosaksono|first1= Aribowo|last2= Sembel|first2= Roy|title= Maximise your strength|publisher= Elex Media Komputindo |year= 2003|isbn= 979-20-4117-6|pages=192–193}} and are taught personal development and methods to expand their business network, including goal setting,{{cite book |last= Sarosa|first= Pietra|title= Becoming young entrepreneur: dream big, start small, act now!|publisher= Elex Media Komputindo |year= 2005|isbn= 979-20-7110-5|page=23}} prospecting, and "how to invite".{{cite journal|journal=Warta Ekonomi: Mingguan Berita Ekonomi & Bisnis| volume=9| issue=9–16 |year= 1997|page=30}} Network 21 reportedly has a greater "product focus" than some other Amway training organisations.{{cite book|last=Groß |first=Claudia |title=Multi-level-marketing: Identität und Ideologie im Network-marketing|publisher=Gabler Wissenschaftsverlage|isbn=978-3-531-15936-2| year=2008|pages=194, 228, 268}} Apart from Jim & Nancy Dornan, leadership includes Robert Angkasa, Paul & Linda Agus, and S.R. Kristiawan (Indonesia),{{cite book|last=Harefa|first=Andrias|title=berwirausaha dari nol|publisher=Gramedia Pustaka Utama|isbn=978-979-655-506-2| year=2000|pages=33–35}}{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= James W.|title= Empire of Freedom: The runway Story and What It Means to You|url= https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi|url-access= registration|publisher= Prima Publishing |year= 1997 |isbn= 0-7615-1088-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi/page/101 101–103]}} Hans & Eva Nusshold (Europe),{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= James W.|title= Empire of Freedom: The Amway Story and What It Means to You|url= https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi|url-access= registration|publisher= Prima Publishing |year= 1997 |isbn= 0-7615-1088-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi/page/114 114]}} and Mitch & Deidre Sala (Australia).{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= James W.|title= Empire of Freedom: The Amway Story and What It Means to You|url= https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi|url-access= registration|publisher= Prima Publishing |year= 1997 |isbn= 0-7615-1088-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/empireoffreedoma00robi/page/103 103], 109}}
=Network of Caring=
Network of Caring was founded in 1994 as the philanthropic arm of Network TwentyOne,{{cite web |url=http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/appeals.nsf/8167b40c00a2c0c488256aaf0022563b/fb3afc6bf81b6e3188256acb00828364!OpenDocument |title=Network of Caring - A report of Network 21 Activities In Partnership with World Vision |year=2004 |publisher=World Vision |accessdate= April 7, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}[http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/appeals.nsf/stable/noc21_history World Vision - Network of Caring History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220170943/http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/appeals.nsf/stable/noc21_history |date=2009-02-20 }} originally to help AIDS orphans in Uganda. Through enlisting the help of other Amway IBOs associated with the organisation, more than a million dollars a year is sent to that country. In partnership with World Vision, Network of Caring and affiliated IBOs have donated millions to the feeding, housing, and education of children throughout the world. World Vision has recognized Network of Caring and Network TwentyOne's members as their largest corporate network of child sponsors. Together with Free Wheelchair Mission, Network of Caring has provided wheelchairs to the disabled in South Africa and Ukraine[http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/site/c.fgLFIXOJKtF/b.4923775/apps/s/content.asp?ct=6815749 Free Wheelchair Mission - The Friday stories, September 12, 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224155614/http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/site/c.fgLFIXOJKtF/b.4923775/apps/s/content.asp?ct=6815749 |date=February 24, 2012 }}[http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/site/c.fgLFIXOJKtF/b.4923775/apps/s/content.asp?ct=7522119 Free Wheelchair Mission - Friday Wheelchair Story: She used a wheelbarrow] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224155622/http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/site/c.fgLFIXOJKtF/b.4923775/apps/s/content.asp?ct=7522119 |date=2012-02-24 }}Life Will Never Be The Same!, Daily Sun (South Africa), Monday 30 July 2007, p. 12
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