Editing Amway (section)

===International expansion===
Amway expanded to Australia in 1971, to parts of Europe in 1973, to parts of Asia in 1974, to Japan in 1979, to Latin America in 1985, to [[Thailand]] in 1987, to China in 1995,<ref>{{cite web|title=安利在华小心翼翼自我洗白 中国区业绩已连续3年下滑|url=http://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/gsnews/2018-01-26/doc-ifyqyesy2164667.shtml |website=finance.sina.com.cn |date=January 26, 2018 |access-date=2018-05-26 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180526060610/http://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/gsnews/2018-01-26/doc-ifyqyesy2164667.shtml |archive-date=May 26, 2018 |language=zh-cn |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}</ref> to Africa in 1997, to India and Scandinavia in 1998, to [[Ukraine]] in 2003, to Russia in 2005,<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--not stated-->|collaboration=Business Journal Staff|title=Alticor Opens 'Amway Russia'|newspaper=Grand Rapids Business Journal|location=Grand Rapids, MI|publisher=Gemini Media, LLC|agency=ADA|date=21 March 2005|url=https://grbj.com/uncategorized/alticor-opens-amway-russia/|access-date=January 17, 2023|archive-date=December 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212092418/https://grbj.com/uncategorized/alticor-opens-amway-russia/|url-status=live}}</ref> and to [[Vietnam]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.grbj.com/articles/73124 |title=Amway Corp is World Trader of the Year again |first=Pete |last=Daly |date=April 29, 2011 |website=Grand Rapids Business Journal |access-date=September 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219114654/http://www.grbj.com/articles/73124 |archive-date=February 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |url-access=limited}}</ref>

In 2014, a Russian loyalty card program called "Alfa-Amway" was created when Amway joined with [[Alfa-Bank]].<ref name=Filkins2018.10.15>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012025116/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |title=Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers |first=Dexter |last=Filkins |author-link=Dexter Filkins |date=October 8, 2018 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=12 October 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Amway was ranked by ''[[Forbes]]'' as the 42nd-largest [[privately held company]] in the United States in 2018,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/companies/amway/?list=largest-private-companies |title=Amway on the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies List |date=October 24, 2018 |work=[[Forbes]] |access-date=September 16, 2019 |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329121717/https://www.forbes.com/companies/amway/?list=largest-private-companies |url-status=live }}</ref> and as the number one largest company on the ''Direct Selling News'' Global 100 list in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.directsellingnews.com/global-100/ |title=DSN Global 100 |website=Direct Selling News |access-date=December 29, 2018 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205193811/https://www.directsellingnews.com/global-100/ |url-status=live }}</ref>