Questions are being raised about TIENS, a Chinese company that sells medical products after the Central Bank (CB) relaunched its anti-pyramid scheme ad-campaign recently in the media, but TIENS officials say they are within the law.
“TIENS is a multinational company founded in China. The products we sell in Sri Lanka are sold through TIENS Lanka and they are based on Chinese culture of healthy therapy. We use network marketing to promote our products and it has nothing to do with pyramid schemes,†Andy Leh Zhao, Chairman TIENS Lanka told the Sunday Times FT.
He said the company sells products such as health food, health care, beauty care and home care products etc. through network marketing. “This is simply a method of providing goods and services to customers where the retail ‘middle man’ has been replaced with a network of independent distributors. These independent distributors use the product or service and for their own personal retail sales and for the volume of retail business generated by the people they train and lead in their network. Network marketing is based on ‘word of mouth’ and any business that produces quality products recognizes the power of this form of production,†he said.
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