Xango acquired by Zija International
On May 6th, Xango announced it had been acquired by Zija International.
Xango market mangosteen juice and Zija a range of moringa-based supplements.
As per a press-release issued on the Xango website;
Today the iconic brand, XANGO, is becoming part of direct selling legacy company Zija International and the Zija family.
Over the last 15 years we have built XANGO into one of the most powerful brands in the business. No one offers the experience, the history and the shared values that Zija and its founder Ken Brailsford possess.
A legacy company plus a legendary industry brand – that’s the new global foundation for all of you.
With Zija, XANGO distributors can now access additional world-class products in more markets around the world.
Add to that an impressive production facility, state-of-the-art technology to fuel the business and we are set to create the greatest growth story in all of network marketing.
Although not a complete picture, Alexa traffic estimates for the Xango website show a decline throughout most of 2016. At the start of this year things did pick up again, although evidently not enough to keep Xango afloat.
That said how far the Zija deal’s origins go is unclear.
The Zija International website was all but dead until around October, 2016. Xango definitely appeared to be the stronger of the two companies so not sure what’s going on there.
BehindMLM reviewed Xango back in 2013 and concluded that the majority of company’s revenue was likely sourced from affiliate autoship orders.
In 2016 the FTC compared Xango’s compensation plan to that of Vemma, which it had just shut down for being a $200 million dollar pyramid scheme.
Zija International was reviewed in 2011. It’s business model had a much stronger retail focus than that of Xango, however steep affiliate recruitment requirements were also present.
XanGo was apparently under a 10 day foreclosure since the week prior to the asset sale to Zija. They had to empty and leave their offices last Friday.
This is absolutely not a strategic partnership, over here in the USA we call this a firesale.
Most leaders were unaware about the move till last Tuesday when they heard “some” of the details for the first time.
Their names and database were already transferred to Zija and some of them already obtained a position inside the Zija plan without knowing or understanding the Zija Binary 🙂
Their names were published on the Zija recognition website and they didn’t even know they were inside that company can you imagine.
What will happen to most of the staff left is unclear but most will be laid off and the founders neither are taken into the deal. The have a 6 month transaction/transfer obligation-engagement I guess.
As still today people trying to call now the Zija office for more info on the XanGo juice and running orders are hardly heard.
XanGo was in serious decline since 2012 because of mismanagement and because some major leaders left the company. Their business once skyrockin’ wasn’t even in the top 100 MLM companies in turnover anymore.
Knowing that you need to do 75 Million $ to get inside that list, well you can imagine how much their yearly turnover still was. Zija on the other hand reported a 129 Million $ turnover last year.
Seems to me that Zija has eaten Xango, especially to get what was left from the network.
The question now remains how this will work for the XanGo distributors who come from a complete different culture and a Unilevel pay plan.
Maybe Xango saw themselves next on FTC’s hitlist and decided to cash out early.
This is the most devastating news ever! I was there when Xango began and watched it grow to a mega company. The founders were men of honor and gave people hope.
This is like a death in the family and I will mourn the loss of a truly great Brand. :'(
DISASTER.
@Scambuster789, do you have any proof of that 10 day closure? Because that would be huge news, but I can’t find it anywhere..
Xango just got a warning in South Africa by the minister of health and wellness because the distributors are making wild medical claims just like they did in the US.
The 2 dirtiest slime balls promoting incredible medical benefits from xango where David Morton PHd and Dr Fredy Templeman.
David Morton is Xango founder Joe Morton’s brother, and Templeman is Joe Morton’s father in law. Scumbags to the core.
@Jerone You won’t find that news anywhere because it has been kept a secret up till now.
That was actually also the reason they had to empty the building latest Friday the 5th of May. But you could ask them face to face, the founders of Zija and XanGo if they want to make a public statement on that or not.
Maybe they will just keep lying like they were doing for the last 4 years, saying business was booming.
What really also surprises me is that this guy in The Netherlands gave them not so long ago a Triple A rating as very credible company.
It makes me wonder how that due diligence was done and what it means in reference to all the other companies that were given a triple A rating on that website.
May i know what is the registration no for mangosteen juice (zija international)?
Registration with who?
men of honor? what rock were you living under. they were all greedy crooked con men.
I worked in the USA closely together with them for many years. They were not all greedy and con men.
The shit hit the fan when among the owners betrayal was discovered with double accounts to clean up expenditures. That mess was made by one founder, spending to much money on his mistress, who by the way also was his personal assistant.
That started the whole process of mistrust and later on a war between certain owners.
The leaders only found out when it was to late a few years later but insiders and staff were aware of the trouble since 2012. Five years before they were sold to Zija.
The fact that this was never be going to be a good marriage you can see now. You can’t make of 2 companies in decline a good one just by putting them together.
Where is Zija now, exactly bought by Isagenix who aren’t doing great neither lately.
It’s the logic move for many network marketing companies in decline, buy another one out to increase the field members. Which works about 6 months. The new people coming from company B get often a special deal, double commissions, buy more product to get to know it and increase volume.
After 6 months they realize that wasn’t the program they signed in for and motivation drops to almost nothing and decline is there again.
Today we have again examples of some companies that so called merged to create a powerhouse. Two declining companies will never build a powerhouse because in both there is something fundamentally wrong before the merge.
If not they wouldn’t be in decline but stable likewise many of the older companies Herbalife, Amway, Nuskin etc.
They don’t grow anymore by 20 or 30 % yearly but they keep their numbers fairly intact and by doing that, their leadership stays.
Most of the leaders that move towards younger companies is because of special deals and only because of that. This happens most of the times 12-18 months after joining the previous one, because that is how long their deal runs there nl. 12 months.
What follows after is the slipstream result, another couple of months more poor results and off they are.
It becomes more and more rare to find founders of honor as 9 out 10 starters now are scammers coming from other ponzi scams.
Do Xan-go still sell the juice retail?? Or via distributor? Is it available at all?
I saw in Amazon tht people still sell Xango juice , , but I am not sure if they are fake ?? And expired??? Are they allowed to sell expired products??
I ordered and got the expired Xango bottles. Is there anybody who know anything about this?
I do like the original Xango Mangosteen juice actually. I hope there is a company who can continue producing Xango again in the future.
Xango doesn’t exist anymore, it was bought by Zija in 2017.
Zija was then sold off to Isagenix. Contacting them is probably your best bet.