President's Message - Becoming the Best We Can Be...It's a Process!
February 2003

"Our progress has certainly not been achieved overnight....It has been achieved through a process of continual improvement-step by step..."

As we begin the year 2003, I can hardly believe how fast this last year has flown by. For that matter, it is unbelievable how fast the past five years have gone. I am struck by the fact that we have now existed as a company for over seventeen years. And although those seventeen years have passed much too quickly, it is rewarding to stop for a moment and realize the progress we have made. We have grown from just seven employees to over 1,600 employees; from just eight great products to over 300 phenomenal products; from a 2,000 square foot manufacturing space to occupying over 650,000 square feet of state-of-the-art facilities; from a few dozen customers to hundreds of thousands of customers. And now over 200,000 households receive a check from Melaleuca every single month. We have become a global company, paying out millions of dollars every month to families around the world who are spreading our good message of total wellness.

One of the things I am most proud of is our Management Team, consisting of dozens of hard-working, bright, honorable executives who bring the kind of leadership that we can all be proud to follow. I have a great sense of fulfillment when I consider how we have continued to get better one step at a time.

When we began our company in September of 1985, we established our mission: "To enhance the lives of those we touch by helping people reach their goals." That phrase has been a guiding light for us as we have made decisions that have carried us along the way. We have never strayed from that mission. It is the very reason for our existence as a company and the foundation of our success.

I am filled with the warmest of feelings when I hear story after story of lives being enhanced and goals and dreams being fulfilled both from the health benefits of our products and from the financial benefits of our business opportunity.

Our progress has certainly not been achieved overnight. We have a much more solid heritage than that. It has been achieved through a process of continual improvement-step by step, precept upon precept. Every year we have gotten a little better, a little wiser, a little stronger. We have learned to become better leaders. We have learned to hold ourselves more accountable and each other more accountable. We have all experienced personal growth-intellectually, physically, socially, spiritually, and, yes, financially. I would like to believe that we have become better parents-and better spouses. And, if we have taken full opportunity of our learning experience, we have learned to be better children in our relationships with our own parents.

Progress takes change-in our hearts, our passions, our habits, and in almost everything we do. Melaleuca has changed over the years. And in the process we have become a stronger company with a much brighter future.

The greatest reason for our success is our products! We have many that are so unique and so unusually good I call them jaw droppers! When people begin to regularly use The Vitality Pak, the absolute difference in the amount of energy they have is really something! Other jaw-dropping health improvements are evident everywhere. Products like ProvexCV, Replenex, Pain-A-Trate, EstrAval, Nutraview, Sol-U-Mel, and MelaPower are just the beginning of an arsenal of life-changing and life-preserving products that can be found nowhere else.

The development of these products did not happen overnight. They took years to develop. We are so fortunate to have them! And we are so fortunate to have the many great leaders and loyal customers who provide us with this great opportunity. To me it is a wonderful journey. I am so grateful to be a part of it!

Progress takes time! We are much better than we were a year ago and immeasurably different and better than we were seventeen years ago. And one year from now we will be much better than we are today!

How about you? Will you be different a year from now? Progress does not happen without tremendous effort! And it does not happen without a firm resolve to change. No matter how much progress we have made, there is always room for more improvement. As you evaluate the areas where you would like to improve yourself, we invite you to not delay! Go for it! You can do it! Now is the time! Come with us as we all try to become the best that we can be.

Sincerely,

Frank L. VanderSloot