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| Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot |
Melaleuca President and CEO Frank VanderSloot will be the guest speaker Tuesday at the Greater Idaho Fall Chamber of Commerce's weekly forum luncheon, to talk about the company's investment in eastern Idaho and its future plans.
At a press conference Dec. 11, Melaleuca announced it will be building a new 371,000-square-foot home office on the land it
owns on 65th South, near I-15's Exit 113. The company is centralizing many of its Idaho operations, and the new home office will be three times larger than its current
space. They expect the new office to be ready by spring of 2014.
The
company is already awarding construction work to local contractors, with Bateman-Hall as the general contractor on the
projects. VanderSloot on Tuesday plans to detail how the company's growth is
causing the need for more administrative, manufacturing and
distribution space
Melaleuca began in Idaho Falls in the mid-1980s. The company conducts its sales of vitamins, nutritional supplements, cosmetics and household products through people who sign on as "marketing executives," building networks of their own and getting paid for the people they bring in. Those networks are now worldwide, and in 2011 the company passed the $1 billion sales mark.
A Melaleuca news release said VanderSloot will also announce future plans for additional expansion.
