Terry LaCore, Underwood & Harding sell Pruvit to themselves
LaCore Enterprises owner Terry LaCore has sold Pruvit back to himself.
Corporate restructuring is one thing but a June 18th press-release put out by Pruvit is highly misleading.
Titled “Pruvit Founders Lead Company Buyback: Company to Revert to 100% Founder Ownership in $107 Million Transaction”, Pruvit’s latest press-release reads;
In a significant move marking a new chapter for Prüvit, the original founders, Brian Underwood, Chris Harding, and Terry LaCore, have approved the reacquisition of the company.
Prüvit will continue to be supported by the LaCore ecosystem, bringing with it capabilities, expertise, and capital to grow Prüvit to its full potential.
Who sold what to who isn’t specifically clarified but the implication is Pruvit’s current owner sold the company back to its co-founders.
Here’s the problem with that;
Pruvit launched in 2015 as a LaCore Enterprises MLM company. In BehindMLM’s published June 2015 Pruvit review, I noted corporate records cited Terry Lacore, Brian Underwood and Chris Harding as Directors of the company.
So here we are nine years later, and Pruvit’s founding Directors are selling the company back to… themselves?
There might be a financial reason for this announcement (no idea where the $107 million factors in), but from a PR marketing standpoint – what a completely pointless and misleading announcement to make.
A June 2023 legal spat between Underwood and former Pruvit top promoter Michael Rutherford, revealed a corporate pay suspension and “recent dramatic decrease” in distributor commissions.
As of May 2024, SimilarWeb tracked just 34,000 monthly visits to Pruvit’s website. This is up slightly from an even worse ~30,900 monthly visits for April.
Reading between the lines, I’m assuming Pruvit’s ongoing financial troubles are behind whatever this latest corporate restructuring is.
That is probably should be explained in Pruvit’s latest press-release. Instead we have this “we sold the company to ourselves” nonsense.
Pruvit and other LaCore companies are dying after the lead and heavy metals found in ketones a few years back.
Why does a sister company of the parent company do the 3rd party lab testing again?
I think Pruvit kinda fell off when Jessie Lee Ward got hit with cancer. Nobody stepped into that vacuum and, according to Rutherford, commissions tanked.
Looks like the ‘reason’ for the deal is that Sunbasket – the keto meal delivery company they had partnered with, wanted to divest them.
Interesting.
morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9151871/health-and-nutrition-platform-intelligent-brands-divests-nutraceuticals-division-pruvit-in-a-107-million-deal-and-goes-forward-as-intelligent-foods
So a more accurate accounting of the “buyback” was LaCore Enterprises buys out Intelligent Brands.
This is from 2022:
forbes.com/sites/yolarobert1/2022/12/07/intelligent-foods-acquires-gobble-in-a-nine-figure-deal-naming-ooshma-garg-ceo/
Holy shit they got screwed. Pruvit’s business operations tanked and they sold off to LaCore for $107 million.
Edit: So apparently Intelligent Foods and Intelligent Brands are holding companies based out of Melissa, Texas. Are these just proxy companies owned by Terry LaCore? I can’t find any information on either Melissa, Texas company.
Edit2: Surprise surprise, Intelligent Foods is a California shell company that has the same corporate address as LaCore Enterprises in Texas:
bizapedia.com/ca/intelligent-foods-inc.html
So yeah, this is all smoke and mirrors.
As an aside and in case anyone is looking for it, LaCore Enterprises is putting together a new company “The Last Dance”. Not sure if that’s the final name but that’s what they’re going with now.
Reveal is June 28th. Dan Fleyshman, Rod Larsen, Nick Sarnicola, Ron Williams, Brian Breach and Jonathan Foltz are involved.
So Underwood is keeping his distributorship and commissions, and sold his ownership percentage in Pruvit, and joined Frequense? What a scumbag, he is going to rape Pruvit of it’s people, imo.