Clear Choice Beverage Awards Honor Iconic XanGo® Juice Bottle

Xango, LLC has won numerous awards for the way that they conduct business, with honors such as Best Company To Work For, and CEO Of The Year, and they are breaking records as one of the fastest growing companies in history, so it seems natural that they would also win an award for the design of their bottles.

Yes, the "instant classic" new bottle design was recognized by the Glass Packaging Institute with the 2008 Clear Choice Beverage Award, awarded at the Food Marketing Institute Show in Las Vegas, further establishing the global brand, Xango.

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Aaron Garrity Awarded CEO of the Year in Utah Business Magazine

Here is an excerpt from the cover story in Utah Business Magazine. Aaron received the award in the Private - Medium category. Congratulations, Aaron, you should be proud.

Aaron Garrity

XanGo

A “dream come true” is how Aaron Garrity describes his position as CEO of XanGo. “I always wanted to start my own company, I talked and dreamed of it for years,” he says.

In 2007 that dream got even bigger. The company experienced phenomenal international growth, opening several new markets worldwide, welcoming 10,000 international distributors and earning more than $1 million in revenue within the first month of business in Malaysia. XanGo also hired 353 employees, introduced XanGo.TV and is expanding operations at its distribution facility Spanish Fork. If XanGo had to be summed up in just one word, “growth” would be it, Garrity says.

“When you take a company from start to approximately one million distributors, understanding growth is important,” Garrity says. “The ability to grow management and make appropriate decisions is vital. With that said, it’s also important to be able to maintain the overall corporate vision and objectives, knowing the people and the organization.”

But XanGo has not always experienced such success. In 2001, the company prepared to launch in a very shaky market. Realizing that obtaining start-up capital from outside sources would be unlikely, Garrity mortgaged his home. “We felt the time was right, so we started XanGo with almost nothing more than a whole lot of energy and a dream,” he says.

After becoming CEO of XanGo just 16 months ago, Garrity’s main objective was to keep the company focused and specialized. “XanGo tells one simple story and that’s the story of mangosteen. We’ve specialized this one story and we’re the first in our industry’s history to be five years into the market with just one product.”

XanGo’s efforts to educate the world about the health benefits of mangosteen have contributed to the company’s success, Garrity says. In 2007, the fruit’s popularity grew after being discovered by Oprah Winfrey and The New York Times.

As CEO, Garrity says he tries to create a company culture that’s flowing with energy, innovation and charity. When XanGo was first launched, Garrity stressed the importance of making charitable giving a part of his business model. Today, that model is known as XanGo Goodness, and it benefits families and children around the globe.

Overall, Garrity says that it’s a combination of focus, specialization, having a strong management team and a positive company culture that has equaled success for XanGo. As for the future of XanGo, Garrity says that he hopes to see the company become the greatest direct sales company in the history of the industry and continue the quest to share mangosteen’s story with the world.

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XanGo Receives Humanitarian Award from Virgo Publishing

XanGo Honored in Inaugural "Focus on the Future" Awards

LEHI, UT – Jan. 24, 2008 – Global nutritionals leader XanGo, LLC, received Virgo Publishing's inaugural "Focus on the Future" Humanitarian Award for its support of XanGo Goodness. Since the company's founding in 2002, XanGo has contributed to global humanitarian causes that benefit children and families in need.

In presenting XanGo with its Humanitarian Award, Virgo Publishing recognized the company for making significant contributions to the betterment of the community through charitable and public service work. XanGo co-founder and President of Sales and Marketing Gordon Morton, who started XanGo's charitable giving by making a company donation before turning the first profit, thanked Virgo Publishing for recognizing what continues to be a major area of focus for the company and its distributors and employees.

"It is with great honor that we accept this award on behalf of our distributors, employees and partners around the world who join us in making the XanGo Goodness movement possible," said Morton. "XanGo is pleased to be making a difference by focusing on successful outcomes that benefit those at risk or in need both at home and abroad."

XanGo Goodness is a global mission to raise social consciousness and mobilize XanGo's global resources to serve, support and improve communities in need. Driven by action, XanGo encourages its partners to roll up their sleeves and get involved. XanGo Goodness transcends mere "check-writing" – it is focused on improving outcomes.

XanGo staff and distributors participate in XanGo Goodness by giving their time and money to help in sustainable humanitarian efforts, medical expeditions, volunteer programs, community health education and on advisory boards. A significant portion of company profits are donated each year to XanGo Goodness.

In addition to ongoing charitable efforts in markets where it does business, XanGo also supports relief efforts around the world. Examples of this work include helping rebuild a village devastated by the tsunami in Thailand, supporting cleft-lip and cleft-palate corrective surgeries in Mexico, sending medical expeditions to Africa and South America, and helping to rebuild community centers and sports fields in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

In October 2007, XanGo introduced the XanGo Goodness Meal Pack, an innovative product formulation designed to treat the severely malnourished in impoverished, famined and war-torn regions of the world. Distributed as a dry powder, the Meal Pack provides essential life-saving nutrients to those on the brink of starvation by simply adding water.

Kent Wood, XanGo's co-founder and president, received the award during Virgo Publishing's Focus on the Future 2008 dinner in Scottsdale, AZ on January 22, 2008.