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XanGo, LLC, founded in 2002, is a privately owned international multi-level marketing company based in Lehi, Utah. The company markets and distributes Xango juice, a blended juice product consisting of mangosteen and other juices, a skin care product, and a nutritional supplement.

Company Overview

Executives
Aaron Garrity, Founder, Chairman of the Board, Former President/Chief Executive Officer[3]
Gary Hollister, Founder, Former Chief Executive, Former Chairman of the Board, Chairman Emeritus
Joe Morton, Founder, Board of Directors
Gordon Morton, Founder, Board of Directors
Bryan Davis, Founder, Board of Directors
Kent Wood, Founder, Board of Directors
Robert Conlee, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors
Craig Hale, President, Former General Counsel
Robert Spangler, Chief Financial Officer
Nate Brown, Chief Operations Officer
Larry Macfarlane, Chief Marketing Officer
Scott Smith, Sr. VP of Distributor Relations
Brian Carmack, Sr. VP of International
Beverly Hollister, Sr. VP

Revenue
XanGo is a privately held company and as such does not publicly disclose its financial statements. Company press releases in 2005-2006 stated that sales totalled $40 million in 2003 and $150 million in 2004, and that 2005 sales were more than twice those of 2004. In October 2007 the company said that cumulative sales since its inception five years earlier were over $1 billion and by November 2008 had exceeded $1.5 billion.

XanGo now operates in 23 countries throughout the world and has over one million distributors.

Xango US FDA warning
On September 20, 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to XanGo LLC International in response to the company's promotion of Xango juice as a drug, in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)], by claiming that it could treat and/or cure various diseases. The agency's letter further warned that Xango juice had not been properly tested for safety and efficacy, and as a proposed new drug it could not be legally sold in the US without prior approval of the FDA, and that the company could face enforcement action including seizure and/or injunction of products or suspension of business. Under FDA drug labeling rules, XanGo LLC, as manufacturer, is responsible for satisfying scientific criteria to make health claims on its product labels and all marketing materials. As of September 2008, the case remains open.

Dr. Ralph Moss, author of several natural remedy books, has said of mangosteen juice:

In my opinion, what we have here is simply an overpriced fruit drink. Fruit drinks are often healthful beverages. But the only reason I can see that the promoters of mangosteen can get away with charging $37 for this product is that they are playing on patients' hopes and fears in a cynical way. Without the health claims, open or implied, the product could only be sold for at most $5 or $6 (which, for example, is the cost of antioxidant-rich pomegranate juice).

A 2008 medical case report described a patient with severe acidosis possibly attributable to a year of daily use (to lose weight, dose not described) of mangosteen juice (brand not described) infused with xanthones, as occurs in the manufacture of XanGo juice. The authors proposed that chronic exposure to alpha-mangostin, a xanthone, could be toxic to mitochondrial function, leading to impairment of cellular respiration and production of lactic acidosis.

Xango Litigation
Tahitian Noni International (TNI), a rival MLM beverage company, sued XanGo LLC and several of its top executives in February 2003 in the 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, alleging that XanGo executives stole TNI's concept for a mangosteen-based supplement while they were employed by TNI's parent-company. After a countersuit against TNI was launched by XanGo LLC, the two parties settled out of court. A joint statement by TNI and XanGo said that they had "agreed to resolve their disputes and the litigation between them and their founders" but the particulars of the settlement were not disclosed.

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