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Aside from hotels, ACE is a critical component in Alticor's strategy to generate fresh thinking and ideas within the company. Only into its second year of operations, ACE acts as a holding company for Alticor's non-direct selling companies.

"With the help of Corporate Enterprises, we are building our capabilities in health and beauty, while also giving us immediate access to new technologies and products," said Jim Weaver, ACE's vice president. "It brings us closer to the marketplace, which will provide a wellspring of benefits to Alticor and Amway."

Alticor's 2006 acquisition of Gurwitch Products, a luxury cosmetics and skin-care company, is already paying dividends. Gurwitch, which develops and markets cosmetics under the brand name Laura Mercier(R), which are sold by The Neiman Marcus Group and other high-end retailers, gives Alticor access to insightful marketing, research and development talent in the premium beauty industry.

Fulton Innovation unveiled its eCoupled(TM) Intelligent Wireless Power Technology at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, demonstrating how electronic devices such as cell phones can be recharged wirelessly. A year later, at the 2008 CES, eCoupled demoed wireless power conversion for an even wider array of electronic devices, ranging from a wirelessly powered laptop and cell phone to an Apple iPod and a George Foreman grill. eCoupled was granted 20 new patents in 2007, bringing its total to 58 U.S. and 143 international patents granted, published or pending.

In 2007, Alticor further increased its majority interest in publicly listed Interleukin Genetics, whose expertise in functional genomics assists ACE and Alticor in developing personalized, over-the-counter nutritional and skin-care products. Alticor also markets consumer genetic tes
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