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2006

  • The Limu Company welcomes 3-Time Olympic Gold Medalist, Rowdy Gaines as Official Spokesman for Original Limu™, the best-tasting nutritional beverage ever!
  • New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong join TLC Global bringing the total to 24 countries in which Original Limu™ is available.
  • Your Business At Home, a leading new national magazine focused on top home-based businesses, featured The Limu Company in its entire June 2006 issue! Newsstands and large bookstores, like Barnes & Noble and Borders, sell the magazine nationwide from May 15th through June 14th.
  • The GOLD RUSH Begins!
    Original Limu™ GOLD is introduced at The Limu Company's International Conference causing the greatest stir in the company's history. As a result, sales soar to an all-time high.

2005

  • Gary Raser's quest for excellence moves him to take something great and make it even better. After evaluating each process related to the companys product ... Original Limu™ GOLD is formulated! With the same exclusive Fucoidan-rich extract, the taste and color of Original Limu™ is developed into a golden nectar, naturally blended with papaya, mango, pear, and apple with 75% less preservatives. Every glass contains 83% reconstituted Pure Tongan Limu with NO added sugar, NO artificial flavors, NO artificial sweeteners, and NO artificial colors.
  • The Limu Company expands into Japan, home of one of the worlds strongest economies and centers for Direct Sales/Network Marketing.
  • The 600th scientific study on Fucoidan is published in the January 2005 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Due to widespread attention, scientific studies emerge world-wide touting the amazing benefits of Fucoidan, the key ingredient in Limu, in highly acclaimed publications such a... Anticancer Research, Infection and Immunity, The Journal of Immunology, The British Journal of Pharmacology, Nutrition and Cancer, Developmental Biology, The Journal of Molecular Immunology, Journal of Neuroimmunology, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research.
  • TLC ... In the News!
    Representatives from all four major news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX contact TLC to share our story! TLC is featured in publications such as... Wall Street Reporter, Natural Health Magazine, Direct Selling News, Womens Health and Fitness, BIOMED Business Journal, USA Today, Network Business Magazine (Japan)

2004

  • The Limu Company is privately-owned, debt free and profitable. First year sales of Original Limu™ exceed 10 million dollars a revenue milestone that 99.5% of the 23 million companies in America have never reached! In a single year, Original Limu™ is made available to tens of thousands distributors in these 20 countries:

Australia • Austria • Belgium • Canada • Denmark • Finland • France • Germany • Greece • Ireland • Italy • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Norway • Philippines • Portugal • Spain
• Sweden • United Kingdom • United States of America

2003

  • The Limu Company opens its doors and introduces Original Limu™ to the world via a network of independent distributors. With exclusive worldwide rights to the Fucoidan-rich extract of this "miracle plant," TLC continues its mission to share Original Limu™ with the world ... one person at a time.

2001

  • Gary J. Raser is introduced to a stack of over 400 scientific studies about a brown, unpalatable, rubbery sea plant called Limu, virtually unknown to the general world population. Studies reveal scientific evidence of the plants remarkable bodily effects and reports from Tongan natives attribute their long-standing good health and longevity to this wondrous substance. With access to the proprietary and exclusive Limu extract and this uniquely powerful immune supporting nutrient, Gary becomes the FIRST to discover the need for Limu... the FIRST to spearhead the original product's development... and the FIRST to design the marketing strategy to bring it successfully to market. A category-creator, category-dominator, and global brand is born!

1999

  • Gary J. Raser is co-founder of a Direct Sales/Network Marketing company featuring a line of high quality nutritional supplements. Gary is retained as President after his company merges with the largest American-owned nutritional supplement manufacturer in the world. He embarks on a quest to find a raw material to fulfill his vision of developing a superior liquid nutritional supplement, unlike anything the industry has ever seen.

1997

  • 24 years after the publication of the first scientific study on Fucoidan, the 300th study surfaces in the June 1997 issue of The Journal of Physiology.

1995

  • Gary J. Raser makes his mark as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of a Direct Sales/ Network Marketing company he later helps take public. World renowned medical doctor, best selling author, and nutrition guru, Dr. Robert Atkins, develops a nutritional supplement line for Gary's company. During this time, Gary significantly enhances his knowledge of nutritional supplementation and its vital importance.

1988

  • Former corporate executive with multi-billion dollar corporations and award winning entrepreneur, Gary J. Raser and his wife, Helen, discover the Direct Sales/Network Marketing industry. They become top distributors in a record-breaking company with more than 500,000 distributors and set the standard for sales and marketing materials. Gary attains global recognition as a speaker and industry consultant, and is quickly becoming one of the most talked about names in the industry.

1987

  • Two scientific experts from New Zealand begin an intense and costly 15-year journey to research and develop the technology to extract Fucoidan without destroying Limus delicate, but extremely potent nutrients. They perfect the chemical-free extraction process, resulting in the first and only standardized, commercially-viable form of this "miracle plant" in the world today. This unique, highly bio-available Fucoidan-rich extract is what powers Original Limu™.

1970

  • The first of 600+ scientific studies on Fucoidan is published in the international medical journal FEBS Letters (official journal of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies).
  • The intriguing mystery and secret of Fucoidan becomes the focus of the scientific community. Fucoidan, the powerful nutrient in Limu that is not found in any land-based plants, is a sulfated polysaccharide with unique biological properties that greatly impact the proper function of virtually every cell in the human body.

1961

  • "Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it." President John F. Kennedy, Jr., March 1961 message to Congress.

1777

  • Limu was bestowed upon Great Explorers who visited the Tongan islands, needing sustenance and energy after a long journey at sea. Renowned explorer Captain Cook, considered to be "the man who saw the whole world first," experienced this warm reception in May of 1777... and the islands of Tonga became forever known as "The Friendly Islands".

1000 BC

  • Since the beginning of their existence, the health and vitality of the Tongans has been the subject of great awe. The friendly Tongan people are robust, healthy and full of life and vigor, even in old age. As Tongans say ... "the key to nofo fiefia (living happily) is Limu."

Circa 1000 BC

  • When Polynesians from Fiji first reached the pristine islands of Tonga, they discovered an unusual sea plant known as Limu. They believed Limu to be their source of good health and longevity, but there was no scientific proof to validate their beliefs. Today, however, that validation exists.

 
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