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XanGo Review: XanGo is a privately owned company that was founded in 2002. Based out of Lehi, Utah, the organization is known for selling XanGo juice. The corporation also markets and produces Eleviv and Glimpse Intuition Skin Care products and supplements.
Their juice contains mangosteen and other juices, which serve as a nutritional supplement. Eleviv is an herbal supplement aimed at restoring metabolic balance for adult users. Glimpse Intuitive Skin Care is a line of organic skin care products also produced from mangosteen extracts and other natural ingredients.
The corporation has a board of directors, much of which is made of various founders including Kent Wood, Bryan Davis, Joe Morton and Gordon Morton. Other founders, including Aaron Garrity and Gary Hollister serve as executives within the company.
Both Aaron Garrity and Gary Hollister have been acknowledged by Ernst and Young as finalists for their prestigious entrepreneurial awards in 2006. The company has also received various awards as an employee friendly work environment, a maverick in corporate responsibility and creative packaging.
Privately held, this corporation does not publicly disclose financial statements, but it is known that product sales have been steadily growing since the company’s inception and that by late 2008, the company’s cumulative sales exceeded one and a half billion dollars.
The company has participated in corporate sponsorship programs, grant making and making political contributions. It has been a top donor to Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, donated to the local arts council and has become the official corporate sponsor of Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer.
It has taken steps to partner with local and international nonprofit organizations that benefit children’s health and development, and it has committed seven percent of its profits to various children’s charities.
More than seven hundred thousand distributors, according to the U. S. Federal Trade Commission, sell its juice products. This is in over fifteen markets worldwide, including the United States and various countries throughout the South Pacific, Europe and Asia.
The juice is composed of mangosteen aril and pericarp puree, as well as apple, pear, grape, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry and cherry juices and purees. After appeals, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided against granting a patent on the juice product’s recipe.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings to the corporation for marketing and branding the juice product as a drug or medical product.
Watchdog groups and medical organizations have brought into question XanGo’s claims that their juices serve medical purposes for those suffering from disorders like arthritis or diseases such as cancer.
In 2003, a rival organization named Tahitian Noni International (TNI) sued XanGo, accusing the company’s executives of stealing TNI’s ideas for a supplement based in mangosteen while working for the owner of TNI. The two organizations settled out of court after a countersuit was filed, the details of which were not made public.
