PM-International AG
Free to join, genuinely easy to leave, thirty-three years without a single regulator action - and no income disclosure anywhere on earth, so nobody outside the company can price the offer.
The best exit terms we have documented in this category, attached to a business whose participant outcomes are invisible in every jurisdiction it trades in.
Can you actually make money with FitLine?
No, and the reason is an absence rather than an accusation. In thirty-three years, across Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, the US, Canada, Italy and India, PM-International has never published an income disclosure. Not a weak one, not an old one. None. The rulebook points participants instead to earnings as projected in the Official PM Business Presentation, which is a sales projection rather than a record of what anybody was paid. Nobody outside the company can price this offer.
The plan is a hybrid, and the recruitment half is where the ladder sits. Above Sales Manager you advance by producing qualified downline Managers rather than by selling more product, so volume stops working as a lever at rank three. A bonus of 60 euros is paid for each activated new partner, raised from 50 euros in January 2026. And the Firstline Bonus, the first thing paying you on people you sponsored, needs about 100 points of your own monthly volume, roughly 51 euros a month or 612 euros a year.
What is good here is the paperwork, and it is stronger than almost anything else on this site. Joining is free and there is no minimum purchase, both written into the binding Teampartnerregeln rather than the marketing. A new distributor has 30 days to withdraw. Consumers get 30 days and the distributor is obliged to honor it. Unopened resalable product goes back for 90 days with prepaid return shipping and no restocking deduction. And no regulator in Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Spain, the UK or the EU has taken enforcement action in thirty-three years.
no minimum purchase - stated in the binding Teampartnerregeln
- An income disclosure, in any single one of the markets it trades in. Thirty-three years with none anywhere is the fact that sets this grade, and it is the cheapest item on this list to fix.
- A path above Sales Manager that runs on selling rather than on producing downline Managers. While rank three onward requires people who themselves hit rank, the plan pays for organization-building whatever the retail machinery underneath it does.
- A per-head bonus that is not paid for activating a new partner. Sixty euros triggered by an enrollment plus activation volume is the textbook hybrid feature, and it sits directly against the no-minimum-purchase rule in the same contract.
- Audited consolidated group accounts. The US$4.088bn figure a recruit is shown is retail-grossed Aussenumsatz, was published while the company said the figures were still being audited, and no group auditor could be identified anywhere.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL - a privately held Luxembourg-headquartered group, trading 33 years across 100+ countries with no consumer-protection, competition, food-safety or advertising regulator enforcement action found anywhere.
Confidence: Medium
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A German-founded, Luxembourg-headquartered family-controlled group selling FitLine vitamin and mineral powders, meal-replacement shakes and cosmetics through a unilevel compensation plan paying six levels deep with a differential management bonus on top.
Start with what this company does better than almost anything in its category, because it is contractual and it is checkable. Enrollment is free - the binding Teampartnerregeln §2.1 states that it is not necessary to order FitLine products to become a distributor, and §5.4 states there is no obligation to purchase and no minimum purchase requirement. A new distributor has 30 days to withdraw. A consumer has a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, and the distributor is contractually obliged to honor it. Unopened resalable product with three months of shelf life left goes back for 90 days, with prepaid return shipping and no restocking fee. Subscriptions have no minimum term and cancel by email. Then add the regulatory record: searching Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Spain, the UK and the EU turned up no consumer-protection, competition, food-safety or advertising authority that has taken enforcement action against PM-International in 33 years. For a company of this size in this sector, that is unusual, and it counts.
What drags the grade down is measurement, not misconduct. PM-International publishes no income disclosure in any jurisdiction - not in Germany, not in Luxembourg, not in the UK, the US, Canada, Italy or India - despite holding membership of five separate direct-selling associations. The rulebook itself gestures at the gap: distributors may repeat hypothetical income examples only alongside "fair, reasonable and timely disclosure of the typical distributors earnings as projected in the Official PM Business Presentation". A projection inside a sales presentation is not an income disclosure. This matters legally as well as editorially, because the company operates in Canada, where Competition Act s.55(2) requires that compensation representations to prospective participants include fair, reasonable and timely disclosure of what typical participants actually receive, and s.55(2.1) makes the operator responsible for its participants and representatives complying too. That is an obligation this report describes, not a breach it alleges - no Canadian enforcement action against PM-International has been found.
And then the growth number, which is the analytical center of this file. The widely repeated figure is US$4.088bn for 2025, up about 27% on 2024. It is self-reported, it is Außenumsatz - retail turnover measured at full recommended retail price, before the 20–45% distributor discount the company's own price list documents - and the company itself said in January 2026 that the figures were still being audited when the number was announced. No published consolidated group financial statements, no group auditor's report and no readable Luxembourg or Bundesanzeiger revenue disclosure could be located; the only identifiable auditor in the group, Ernst & Young AG Zurich, covers a single Swiss subsidiary. The most-cited source for the series contradicts itself, publishing both $2,550m and $2,890m for 2022. None of that means the business is fake - the capital expenditure, the payroll and the ATP sponsorship are hard evidence that real trade is occurring at scale. It means the specific number a recruit is shown is a gross-up of consumer-level value, published before audit, and they have no way to check it.
What "$4 billion" actually measures
Reported retail-grossed Außenumsatz for 2025 against the cash the group would have invoiced at the 20–45% distributor discount its own price list documents. The split is this report's arithmetic on a disclosed discount range, not a company disclosure.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Joining as a Team Partner Teampartnerregeln §2.1 - it is not necessary to order FitLine products to become a distributor. §5.4 - no minimum purchase. One German affiliate site quotes a €15–20 registration fee; the official rules say free. |
Free one-time |
20% purchase discount |
| FitLine PowerCocktail €3.57 a day at RRP. PM's own LMIV label: 53 g carbohydrate per 100 g, of which 50 g sugars, fructose first-named ingredient, 30 mg caffeine from guarana. Cologne List certified. |
€107.00 RRP / €85.60 at TP price 450 g, 30 servings |
20–45% retail margin |
| Optimal Set (personal-use basket) The realistic self-consumption basket: €1,235 a year at team-partner price. Not required by contract, and in practice the thing most participants actually spend. |
€128.70 RRP / €102.96 at TP price monthly |
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| Firstline Bonus qualification volume The de facto autoship gate. Nothing obliges you to buy, but without the personal volume you earn nothing on your first line. The €0.51 point ratio is from an independent calculator that disclaims official status. |
~100 points ≈ €51 monthly |
10% of directly sponsored partners' volume |
| Training Bonus (EAB) Raised from €50/$50 effective January 2026. A per-head payment on enrollment plus activation volume - the classic hybrid feature and the strongest Koscot-relevant fact in the plan. |
€60 / US$60 per activated new partner |
recruitment-triggered |
| Depth / Royalty Bonus (TB) Levels 5 and 6 unlock only at International Marketing Manager. Generations are defined by Manager-rank appearances, so depth compresses past inactive partners. |
5% level 1, 3% levels 2–4 monthly |
unilevel, six levels |
| Management Bonus (MB) and Top Management Bonus You are paid the difference between your rank percentage and that of the highest-paid qualified person beneath you in each leg. No hard breakaway was identified. All percentages come from the official 2010 plan document - unverified for 2026. |
2–21.5%, up to 26% at Champions League monthly |
differential / roll-up |
Who runs it, and what they ran before
Sold cosmetics door-to-door as a student; when his employer went bankrupt in 1993 he used personal savings to start PM-International. No prior failed venture of his own has been identified - this is his single career business, run for 33 years. Luxembourg resident since 1998. Manager Magazin Entrepreneur of the Year 2014, DSN Bravo Leadership Award 2023, appointed with the company to Germany's Federal Economic Senate in 2024.
Sorg and the company won at the Bundesgerichtshof on 14 May 2013 (VI ZR 269/12) against Google over autocomplete suggestions, establishing a notice-and-takedown duty. They then sued TV 2 Norway over its 2017 Helsekontrollen broadcast and lost at Oslo tingrett, at Borgarting lagmannsrett and at the Supreme Court Appeals Committee, with costs. Suing critical journalists and losing three times is a governance signal a prospective participant should price in.
Register entries dated 2024–2025 at Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen. Bacher also sits on the Swiss AG board alongside Sorg, Thomas Rauscher, Alexander Plath and Lucrezia Silvia Späth.
Appointed 16 November 2017 as auditor of PM-International AG (Schweiz). This is the only auditor identifiable anywhere in the group, and it covers one Swiss entity, not the consolidated business whose turnover is publicised.
Registered address
Schengen, Luxembourg
Headquartered in Luxembourg since 2015, but the group is a family-controlled set of 45+ subsidiaries with three legally distinct PM-International AG entities in three countries. The Swiss AG (registered 27 July 1990, share capital CHF 500,000) is recorded by NorthData as the direct and ultimate parent of the German AG. No consolidated group accounts and no group-level auditor could be located, which is why every revenue figure below carries a qualifier.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who legally owns it? |
WATCH
Privately held and family-controlled by founder Rolf Sorg. Three legally distinct PM-International AG entities across Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland, with the Swiss AG recorded as ultimate parent of the German AG. No public shareholders and no bond issuance found.
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| Where is it incorporated? |
WATCH
Group holding in Schengen, Luxembourg (RCS B46582), HQ there since 2015; operating AG in Speyer, Germany (HRB 53194); parent AG in Thayngen, Switzerland (CHE-106.646.098), registered 1990.
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| Regulatory action, ever? |
OK
None found anywhere in 33 years, on a search across Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Spain, the UK and the EU. The only adverse legal outcome is a 2019 California Prop 65 consent judgment for $40,539, settled without admission of liability, brought by a private enforcer rather than a regulator.
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| Published income disclosure? |
RED
None, in any jurisdiction, in 33 years - despite membership of five direct-selling associations and operations in over 100 countries.
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| Can I verify the revenue figure? |
CONCERN
No. US$4.088bn for 2025 is self-reported, retail-grossed Außenumsatz published before audit. No consolidated group accounts and no group auditor could be identified.
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| What does it take to break even? |
WATCH
Entry is €0 with no minimum purchase. Realistically €2,000–3,100 a year for someone working the business, of which €1,200–1,500 is product they consume themselves - recoverable in part through the 90-day return.
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| Can I get out cleanly? |
OK
Yes, and this is the best part of the file. 30-day new-distributor withdrawal, 30-day consumer satisfaction guarantee, 90-day return on unopened resalable product with prepaid shipping and no restocking fee, and subscriptions with no minimum term.
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| Do I own the list? |
WATCH
No. Online distribution must go through the PM-provided shop, independent web shops and marketplaces are banned, and a registered customer can move to a new sponsor six months after their last order.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Hold your Team Partner position | €0 Teampartnerregeln §2.1 and §5.4 - free entry, no minimum purchase, no back-office fee in the current EU rules |
| Unlock the Firstline Bonus | ~100 points/month ≈ €51 ≈ €612/yr of personal volume before you earn anything on your first line |
| Cover a realistic working year | ≈ €170–260/month in commission against an all-in €2,000–3,100/yr; roughly 8–15 retained Customer Direct customers spending ~€100/month at 15–30% |
| Reach Manager, then advance beyond Sales Manager | 600 points ≈ €306, then qualified downline Managers volume alone stops working at rank 3 - from there you must produce people who themselves hit rank |
Read this twice
The unusual thing about this plan is that the door is genuinely free and the exit is genuinely clean, so the loss a participant can book is smaller than in most of this category - free entry, no inventory loading requirement, and a 90-day no-restocking-fee return on unopened resalable product means a first-year participant who stops can recover a meaningful share of what they spent. What the plan does instead is move the cost downstream into the earning gates. You are not required to buy, but the Firstline Bonus needs about 100 points of personal monthly volume; you are not required to stock product, but the USE–TALK–DEMO model explicitly requires giving product away and PM publishes no sampling budget; you are not required to attend congresses, but rank culture is built around them and ticket prices are not publicly retrievable. Building those line items up from sourced figures gives roughly €2,000–3,100 a year for someone actually working the business, of which €1,200–1,500 is product they consume themselves. That is a real cost, it is self-inflicted rather than imposed, and it is unusually recoverable. What it is not is estimable in terms of return, because no income disclosure exists to tell you what share of people ever cover it.
Run your own numbers
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Assumes a customer spending about €100/month at the 15–30% Customer Direct rate. Entry is free and no minimum purchase is contractually required - the €102.96/mo cost is the Optimal Set at team-partner price, self-inflicted rather than mandated, and 90% recoverable within 90 days on unopened product. Your own subscription cost of $103/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
What the same nutritional intervention costs bought openly on the German market, using the per-day figures from the price list and a mainstream pharmacy comparator. This is the honest consumer test, and it is where the price-to-value score is decided.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| PowerCocktail - daily multivitamin base, €3.57/day RRP | High-dose multivitamin, 120 capsules for €19.39, one a day | €0.16/day ≈ €58/yr |
| Restorate - evening mineral and acid-base drink | Magnesium citrate plus zinc, pharmacy generic | ~€50/yr |
| Basics - fibre, enzyme and probiotic powder | Psyllium husk plus a plain multi-strain probiotic | ~€120/yr |
| Activize Oxyplus - B vitamins plus guarana caffeine | B-complex tablet, and coffee | ~€40/yr |
| Cologne List doping-risk screening | A Cologne List or Informed Sport certified mainstream sports-nutrition product | ~€200–300/yr |
| Total as sold ~€1,235/yr at TP price (€1,544 at RRP) |
Total, built yourself ~€270–570/yr |
Price-to-value
Roughly 2 to 4x on the whole basket, and about 22x on the flagship item measured per day. The gap is not explained by the features. The Cologne List certification and the six-monthly ELAB panels with QR traceability are genuinely good and a €19 supermarket multivitamin does not offer them - but certified mainstream sports-nutrition brands do, for a fraction of this. The difference between €0.16 and €3.57 a day is the distribution model priced into the product. A buyer with no income offer attached and no elite-competition doping exposure would not pay it.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Part-timer
8 hrs/wk, warm market, buys the Optimal Set, no ads
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 22% | −€260 |
| 6 mo | 28% | −€380 |
| 1 yr | 30% | −€520 |
| 3 yr | 27% | −€900 |
| 5 yr | 24% | −€1,200 |
Full-timer
40 hrs/wk, builds a downline, attends congresses, samples heavily
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 9% | −€1,900 |
| 6 mo | 15% | −€3,100 |
| 1 yr | 22% | −€3,800 |
| 3 yr | 30% | +€2,400 |
| 5 yr | 31% | +€7,500 |
Sport or fitness professional
Existing athlete or client base, sells on Cologne List screening
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 44% | +€180 |
| 6 mo | 50% | +€700 |
| 1 yr | 52% | +€1,900 |
| 3 yr | 48% | +€5,200 |
| 5 yr | 45% | +€8,000 |
Methodology note. These figures are MODELED from the compensation plan, the 2026 price list and the sourced cost lines in this report. They are not observed outcomes. PM-International publishes no income disclosure in any jurisdiction - not Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, the US, Canada, Italy or India - so there is nothing whatsoever to calibrate them against, and that absence is the single most important fact in this section. The only earnings data in circulation is a 2017 distributor-assembled list of top earners with no denominator, no rank distribution and no figure for the share earning nothing, which is the inverse of a disclosure. Figures circulating in AI-generated review content about what percentage of distributors earn under a given threshold are not sourced to the company and should not be relied on. The sport-professional row scores best because the product genuinely fits that practice and because Cologne List certification is a factual selling point that does not require a health claim.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
141No income disclosure exists in any jurisdiction, after 33 years
2The headline US$4.088bn is retail-grossed turnover, not net revenue
3The 2025 figure was published before audit, by the company's own admission
4No audited consolidated group accounts and no group auditor could be identified
5The most-cited revenue source contradicts itself
6The flagship product is 50% sugar by weight on PM's own label
7Price-to-value is roughly 22x a mainstream multivitamin
8NTC is a trademark, not a validated mechanism
9Advancement above Sales Manager is gated on producing qualified Managers
10A per-head bonus is paid for each activated new partner
11The Firstline Bonus requires about 100 points of personal monthly volume
12The company's own recruitment page promises immediate additional income with no disclaimer
13A pattern of litigation against journalists, lost at every level in Norway
14A 2019 California Proposition 65 consent judgment over lead and cadmium
Green flags
91No regulator anywhere has taken enforcement action in 33 years
2Joining is free and there is no minimum purchase - in the binding contract
3A 90-day resalable return with no restocking fee
4A 30-day new-distributor withdrawal and a 30-day consumer satisfaction guarantee
5Independent lab testing every six months, with consumer-scannable verification
6Cologne List doping-risk certification across the range
7Verifiable hard-asset capital expenditure
8A single-venture founder with an unbroken 33-year record
9Written policies are stricter than sector norm
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- Publication of a genuine income disclosure - participant counts by rank, median and mean gross commissions, the percentage earning zero, and figures net of personal purchases - in Germany, the US and Canada. This single act would move the grade more than anything else available to the company.
- Publication of audited consolidated group accounts with a named group auditor, reconciling Außenumsatz to net revenue and disclosing the retail-to-net conversion factor.
- Publication of the split between sales to registered end customers and sales to distributors, market by market, alongside a current dated compensation plan with the official point-to-currency ratio.
Downward
- Any regulator opening a file - a Bundeskartellamt or Wettbewerbszentrale matter, a Verbraucherzentrale Abmahnung, an AGCM, UOKiK or GVH proceeding, an ASA ruling, or an FTC or Competition Bureau inquiry.
- Reintroduction or discovery of currently operating pack-based fast-track qualification with per-head bonuses attached, a mandatory autoship, a paid starter-kit requirement or a fee-bearing back office.
- Further Prop 65 or heavy-metal notices, any product recall or safety event, or any new litigation against journalists, consumer bodies or critics.
Grade is D+. This is not a report about a company behaving badly. It is a report about a company that will not let you calculate anything.
Give PM-International the credit it has earned, because it is unusual and it is contractual. You can join for nothing. You are not required to buy anything, ever, and that is written into the binding distributor rules rather than implied in a brochure. If you change your mind within 30 days you get your money back; if you have unopened product within 90 days it goes back with no restocking fee and prepaid shipping. Your customers get a 30-day guarantee you are obliged to honor. And in 33 years of trading across more than 100 countries, an extensive search of eight European jurisdictions and the EU produced no regulator that has taken enforcement action against the company. Most of what this site grades cannot say a single one of those things.
Now the other side, which is not about conduct but about arithmetic. There is no income disclosure, anywhere, in any jurisdiction, ever. That means the central question a prospective participant is asking - what do people like me actually make - has no answer at any price, from any source, and the company has chosen for 33 years not to provide one while holding membership in five direct-selling associations. In Canada that is not merely a transparency preference: Competition Act s.55(2) requires compensation representations to include fair, reasonable and timely disclosure of what typical participants receive, and s.55(2.1) puts the operator on the hook for its participants too. No Canadian enforcement action has been found and none is alleged here; the point is that a company with a car program, a pension program and a page promising immediate additional income is making compensation representations, and there is nothing published against which to test them.
The growth number is the same problem in a different costume. US$4.088bn is a real-sounding figure attached to a real business - the €22m Singapore facility, the Sarasota HQ, the 300-strong Speyer logistics operation and the ATP Tour partnership are all things a shell could not fund. But the figure itself is self-reported, retail-grossed Außenumsatz, published before audit on the company's own admission, unbacked by any consolidated accounts or group auditor anyone can find, and drawn from an outlet that publishes two contradictory numbers for 2022. The right conclusion is neither to accept it nor to dismiss it. It is to notice that a recruit is being shown a number whose basis they cannot check, in a business whose participant outcomes they also cannot check, and to decide what to do with a proposition that is measurable in neither direction.
Use the exit terms as the actual test
Join free, buy one month, sell to real customers who are not you, and see what happens before anything is at risk. The 30-day guarantee and the 90-day no-restocking-fee return exist precisely so this costs almost nothing, and they are the best-documented facts in the file.
Sell the certification, not the mechanism
Cologne List listing and a six-monthly ELAB panel with QR verification are factual, checkable and legitimately valuable to a competing athlete. NTC is a trademark with no published mechanism evidence, and health claims outside the EU register are what drew the 2024 Restorate complaint.
Ask for the customer-versus-distributor sales split before you commit
If the Customer Direct Program genuinely dominates volume, that is the company's strongest defense and it is currently invisible. Nobody outside PM-International can say what share of that $4bn was bought by people not in the compensation plan.
Serve the field rather than joining it
A large European distributor base operating under Regulation 1924/2006, a total ban on independent web shops and marketplaces, a policy book that forbids testimonials and income claims, and no compliant marketing assets provided. Compliance-safe copy, claim libraries and register-checked product materials are a merchant business against a demonstrated need - and one you would own.
Nine dimensions, weighted
Dimension profile
Further from center is better. Hover any point.
Hard caps that bind here
The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.
What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Vertriebspartnerregeln der PM-International AG (binding distributor rules, German/English parallel text) (PDF)
PM-International Teampartnerregeln (binding distributor rules, DE) - §2.1 free entry, §2.2 30-day withdrawal, §3.2 payment terms, §5.2 channel ban, §5.3 consumer guarantee, §5.4 no minimum purchase, §6.5 online shop, §6.6 earnings claims, §7.4 customer re-registration
- PM-International distributor registration page reproducing the Vertriebspartnerregeln in full (§2.1 free entry, §2.2 30-day withdrawal, §5.2 channel ban, §5.3 satisfaction guarantee, §5.4 no minimum purchase, §6.5 online shop, §6.6 earnings claims)
- Vertriebspartnerregeln der PM-International AG - Swiss edition (PDF)
- PM Policies & Procedures, PM-International India Pvt. Ltd., document CORP 04/21 (PDF)
PM Policies and Procedures, CORP 04/21 India edition - A-7 earnings representations, A.0.1 health claims and testimonials, B-16 territories, B-20 cross-border, D-2 §9 social media, F-14 marketplaces, G-1 and G-2 returns
- PM Richtlinien zur Nutzung von Warenzeichen, Logos, Marken und Namen für Teampartner, PM_LogosBrandsNamesTP_CORP_1823_DE_D1 (PDF)
Not established by this document: DEAD, confirmed 10 September 2026: admin.partner.pm-international.com does not resolve at all, and there is no Wayback capture. This is a trademark and logo usage guideline for team partners - peripheral to every finding in this report, which rests on the compensation plan and the income disclosure, both of which are held. Retained as a record that the document existed; nothing in the grade depends on it.
- PM-International Verhaltens- und Ethikkodex (Code of Business Conduct and Ethics) (PDF)
- Allgemeine Geschäfts- und Lieferbedingungen der PM-International AG (Schweiz), 2026 edition - 30-day satisfaction guarantee and 90-day extended resalable return (PDF)
PM General Terms and Conditions, Switzerland - 90-day resalable return with prepaid shipping and no restocking fee; subscription cancellation
- Widerrufsbelehrung der PM-International AG (Schweiz), 2026 edition - 14-day statutory withdrawal and subscription cancellation (PDF)
- PM-International Allgemeine Geschäfts- und Lieferbedingungen (Germany) - §7.1 subscription 30/90-day delivery intervals, distributors restricted to 90 days (PDF)
- FitLine PowerCocktail official LMIV label and data sheet, FL.PowerCocktailBox.LMIV.3717.DEII.P14 - 53 g carbohydrate / 50 g sugars per 100 g, fructose first-named ingredient (PDF)
FitLine PowerCocktail official LMIV label and data sheet - 53 g carbohydrate / 50 g sugars per 100 g, fructose first-named; corroborated independently by fddb.info
- FitLine PowerCocktail nutrition entry - independent corroboration of 53 g carbohydrate / 50 g sugars per 100 g
- FitLine PowerCocktail (Optimal-Set) current product label, PCRCG50_9700162_DE (PDF)
- North Data company record - PM-International AG, Speyer, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen a.Rhein HRB 53194 (share capital history, officers, parent PM-International AG (Schweiz))
NorthData, PM-International AG Speyer HRB 53194, and Moneyhouse, PM-International AG (Schweiz) CHE-106.646.098 - share capital history, boards, and Ernst & Young AG Zurich as statutory auditor of the Swiss entity from 16 November 2017
Not established by this document: The Moneyhouse extract naming Ernst & Young AG Zurich as statutory auditor of the Swiss entity from 16 November 2017 sits behind Moneyhouse's paywall; the free Swiss register mirrors reachable here list the mutations but not the auditor appointment.
- Swiss commercial-register record - PM-International AG (Schweiz), Thayngen, UID CHE-106.646.098, CH-290.3.003.080-6, registered 10 October 1991, capital CHF 500,000
- Handelsregisterauszug PM-International AG, Speyer HRB 53194 - incorporated 2 September 2004, share capital EUR 18,000,000
- Impressum - PM-International AG (Schweiz), confirming it is a subsidiary of PM-International AG, 15 Wäistrooss, L-5445 Schengen, Luxembourg (PDF)
- California OAG Proposition 65 60-Day Notice 2018-01629 - Environmental Research Center, Inc. v. P.M. International (lead and cadmium), judgment 1 June 2019, $7,710 penalty and $32,829 fees
California OAG Prop 65 60-day notice 2018-01629 and the Alameda County complaint (RG18931221) - lead and cadmium in two ProShape products, consent judgment 1 June 2019, $7,710 penalty plus $32,829 fees
- Complaint, Environmental Research Center, Inc. v. P.M. International Nutrition and Cosmetics, Inc. et al., Alameda County Superior Court No. RG18931221 (PDF)
- Consent judgment, Environmental Research Center, Inc. v. P.M. International, Alameda County Superior Court No. RG18931221, entered 1 June 2019 (PDF)
- "Borgarting nekter anke i millionsøksmål mot TV 2" - Rett24 on the Borgarting lagmannsrett refusal of PM-International's appeal, 4 October 2019
Rett24 reporting on Oslo tingrett (28 February 2018) and Borgarting lagmannsrett (4 October 2019), plus BehindMLM on the Supreme Court Appeals Committee refusal - PM-International v TV 2 Norway
Not established by this document: No BehindMLM article on a Norwegian Supreme Court Appeals Committee refusal could be located; the appellate step actually documented is the Borgarting lagmannsrett ankeutvalg decision of 4 October 2019 refusing to admit the appeal.
- "Utenlandsk selskap krever at TV2 sletter artikler om vitaminpulver" - Rett24 on the original injunction application over the November 2017 Helsekontrollen broadcast
- TV2 – PM International AG – midlertidig forføyning, Borgarting lagmannsrett kjennelse LB-2018-63287 of 6 July 2018 (Lovdata case note)
- "Anke avvist. Mener TV 2 var beskyttet av ytringsfriheten" - NTB/Journalisten on the Oslo tingrett judgment of 11 April 2019 and the NOK 70 million claim
- Competition Act (RSC 1985, c. C-34), section 55 - multi-level marketing plan compensation-disclosure obligations, ss. 55(2) and 55(2.1)
Competition Act (Canada) s.55(2) and s.55(2.1) and Competition Bureau MLM guidance; Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 and Regulation (EU) 432/2012 on nutrition and health claims
- "Multi-Level Marketing Plans and Schemes of Pyramid Selling" - Competition Bureau enforcement guidelines on sections 55 and 55.1
- Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (consolidated text, EUR-Lex)
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 432/2012 establishing the list of permitted health claims made on foods (EUR-Lex)
- Lebensmittelklarheit complaint file - "Übertriebene Gesundheitsversprechen für 'Gute-Nacht-Getränk' gelöscht", on FitLine Restorate claims (heavy-metal binding, hair and nails, skin), influencer page deleted September 2024
Lebensmittelklarheit complaint file on FitLine Restorate (filed 17 March 2024, page deleted September 2024) and the Verbraucherzentrale Klartext Nahrungsergänzung entry on PM-International
- Verbraucherzentrale FAQ - PM-International (FitLine): synthetic vitamins, sugar as main ingredient, caffeine content
- Klartext Nahrungsergänzung entry - Produkte von Fitline (BfR maximum-intake and stacking warnings)
- Lebensmittelklarheit complaint file - "Keine Werbung mehr für Fitline-Produkte auf Geteasyfit.de" (distributor health claims withdrawn)
- "PM-International Sells One Billion FitLine Products Worldwide" - Direct Selling News, 27 January 2026
businessforhome.org company profile and articles, Direct Selling News (6 January 2026), direct-selling-magazine.de (Außenumsatz and "still being audited"), Kölner Liste product database, ELAB Analytik testing scope, ATP Tour partnership announcement, 2026 FitLine price list and Shop-Apotheke comparator
Not established by this document: The direct-selling-magazine.de item, the ELAB Analytik testing-scope page, the 2026 FitLine price list and the Shop-Apotheke price comparator could not be resolved to specific retrievable URLs; the Außenumsatz and "still being audited" language is carried instead by the Netcoo and World of Direct Selling reports linked above.
- "PM-International Announces Distributor Income Increase, Record Results and Global Expansion" - Rolf Sorg's New Year address confirming USD 4bn Außenumsatz for 2025 with audited figures "still being prepared"
- "Bravo International Growth Award | PM-International" - Direct Selling News, $4 billion annual retail sales for 2025, 32nd consecutive growth year
- 2026 DSN Global 100 (product-focused) - PM-International, Luxembourg, ranked #5 at $4.1 billion 2025 revenue
- businessforhome.org - "PM-International Reports Sale of One Billion FitLine Products Worldwide" (company profile and press coverage)
- Kölner Liste® product database - PM-International listed products (doping-substance testing)
- "ATP Tour & Fitline forge global partnership" - FitLine named Official Sports Nutrition Partner through 2026
- "PM-International: 4 Milliarden US-Dollar Rekordumsatz in 2025" - Netcoo on the Außenumsatz figure and the 3.3% point-value increase
What we could not get
- Audited consolidated group financial statements and any group-level auditor - none could be located; the only identified auditor covers one Swiss subsidiary, and Luxembourg RCS and Bundesanzeiger figures were not retrievable. This is the most important gap in the file.
- Any income disclosure statement, in any jurisdiction - extensive search, none found. The absence is itself the finding, but an internal document circulated only to prospects cannot be excluded.
- The retail-to-net revenue conversion factor. The US$2.8–3.2bn net estimate in this report is arithmetic on a disclosed 20–45% discount range, not a company disclosure.
- The current official compensation plan. The most detailed official document available is dated 2010, so all percentages, generation depth and compression rules are unverified for 2026 - as is the €0.51 point-to-euro ratio, which comes from an independent calculator that disclaims official status.
- The exact current RRP of PowerCocktail. Two affiliate sources give €107.00 and €93.50; the official shop blocks automated retrieval.
- Congress and event ticket prices, and the cost of sampling under the USE–TALK–DEMO model - the event portal blocked access and no sampling budget is published.
- The number of active distributors and the customer-versus-distributor sales split, globally or in any single market. Not published anywhere.
- Whether "Pool Packs" and the $99 Demo Starter Pack described in an undated historic US review still exist in any market, ELAB Analytik's accreditation status, and the Trustpilot score (direct retrieval returned HTTP 403).
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