Vestige Leading Ladies

5 I N T R O D U C T I O N The Vestige Woman: A Transforming Journey E ver since its launch in 2004, Vestige has been growing at a phenomenal rate every year, on its way to accomplishing its mission of setting the global benchmark for direct selling by 2018. Its success speaks not only for the exceptional quality of Vestige’s health and personal care products, but also for its experienced and innovative management, and the unflagging enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit of its widespread team of distributors. We innovate constantly, to produce new and better products at our state-of-the-art manufacturing centres, and we have dozens of branch offices and thousands of distribution centres to ensure customer satisfaction. However, it is the direct distribution efforts of our individual entrepreneurs that ensures the popularity of our products across diverse markets. Indeed, the veritable army of Vestige distributors – over 30 lakh individuals, spread across the country – forms the backbone of the company. Out of these distributors, 40 percent are women. These women represent an almost infinite gamut of background, experience and context. Some hail from small towns, others have lived their whole lives in big cities; some have run their own businesses, others have never worked before; some have supportive families, others struggle for the opportunity to work outside their home; some bring in a second income, others are the main contributors bringing their families out from acute financial distress. And yet, two qualities bind them: the ability to work hard, and the ambition to dream. At Vestige, where our vision is to help people live lives of economic independence, on their own terms, we believe that our distributors spread Wellth – that is, wealth achieved through wellness – and nowhere is this Wellth more apparent than in the transformative experiences of our women distributors, each one of whom has traversed personal milestones of self-reliance, dignity and freedom in her journey with Vestige. Through the following pages, we invite you to journey with them, to witness their unstinting enterprise, and the marvellous flowering of their ambition. In the words of the great poet Maya Angelou, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”. All the women profiled in this volume have had such breathtaking experiences, and we are proud, at Vestige, for having contributed towards such moments in their lives, as we are grateful, too, for having them in the Vestige family.