Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Herbalife Europe Limited |
| Acronym: |
HLF
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| Legal status: |
Limited Company (Division of a publicly listed US corporation)
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| Website address: |
http://www.herbalife.com
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Companies & groups |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Richard Hobby
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| Position: |
Managing Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Xavier Lavigne
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| Position: |
Senior Manager |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
4 Senator Court, Belmont Road
Uxbridge UB8 1HB
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 1895 819 218 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
Herbalife’s Brussels office is located at the following address:
Herbalife Europe Limited
c/o Herbalife International Belgium, S.A.
Silversquare Business Center
Square de Meeûs 35
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Direct +32 2 893 97 17
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
We are a global nutrition company that has helped people pursue a healthy, active life since 1980. Our nutrition and weight-management products are available exclusively through our network of independent Distributors in 83 countries.
We support the Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF) and its Casa Herbalife program to help bring good nutrition to children in need. We also sponsor world-class athletes, teams and events around the globe, including FC Barcelona and FC Schalke 04 football clubs, as well as champions in more than 15 other sports.
Our Mission is to change people’s lives by providing the best business opportunity in direct selling and the best nutrition and weight-management products in the world.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
4
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Complementary information:
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Ric Hobby | Vice President | Worldwide Regulatory, Government & Industry Affairs
Sindy Staessen | Senior Director | Worldwide Regulatory, Government and Industry Affairs
Xavier Lavigne | Senior Manager | Regulatory & Government Affairs EU
Amélie Empereur | Manager | Regulatory & Government Affairs EU
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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The focus of Herbalife’s government and regulatory affairs work with the EU institutions is legislation and regulation affecting Herbalife products or its distribution channel. As a leading global nutrition company, Herbalife offers its scientific, technical and regulatory affairs experience in weight management, dietary supplementation, and energy, fitness and sports nutrition to both industry and regulators as a contribution to the development of effective nutrition policy.
Herbalife also represents the interests of a network of hundreds of thousands of Europeans engaged in what can best be described as micro-enterprise, an engine of economic growth in the European Union. These independent distributors of Herbalife products are sometimes adversely affected by a lack of harmonisation of consumer information and consumer protection rules. Herbalife works with the European institutions and other stakeholders to effectively communicate the superior level of personal service, unrivalled product guarantees and excellent record of consumer protection offered by these individuals, as we seek to help them build their businesses.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Enlargement
- Enterprise
- Environment
- Food Safety
- Humanitarian Aid
- Internal Market
- Public Health
- Sport
- Taxation
- Youth
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Herbalife is a member of the following Brussels-based entities:
the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU);
the European Responsible Nutrition Alliance (ERNA);
the European Botanical Forum (EBF);
the International Alliance of Dietary/Food Supplement Associations (IADSA);
the European Health Claims Alliance (EHCA);
the European Food Law Association; and
the European Direct Selling Association (Seldia).
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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12/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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250000
€ - 300000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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In addition to the direct costs estimated above, Herbalife also makes direct contributions to a number of Brussels-based organisations (enumerated above) which represent collective industry policy positions to EU institutions. To avoid double-counting of real costs, Herbalife has left the declaration of these contributions to the individual organisations.
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