Weight Watchers International, Inc. provides weight management services worldwide. The company offers various services and products that are built upon weight management systems comprising nutritional, exercise, and behavioral tools and approaches. Its product offerings include TurnAround, which gives consumers the choice of two weight management plans to follow, the Flex Plan, known as the POINTS weight management system, and the Core Plan. Under the Flex Plan, each food has a POINTS value determined by a patented formula based on the foodÂ’s calories, fat, and dietary fiber, and consumers on this plan can eat any food as long as their total food consumption stays within their POINTS value budget for the week. Under the Core Plan, consumers eat from a list of wholesome foods from various food groups. The company, through its WeightWatchers.com offerings, provides two Internet subscription products, Weight Watchers Online and Weight Watchers eTools. Weight Watchers Online provides online content, functionality, resources, and interactive Web based weight management plans. Weight Watchers eTools is an Internet weight management tool for the Weight Watchers meetings members that helps to manage the day-to-day aspects of weight management plan online. In addition, Weight Watchers International sells proprietary products that complement its weight management plans, such as bars, snacks, cookbooks, POINTS value guides, Weight Watchers magazines, and POINTS calculators. The company sells its products through meeting operations and to its franchisees. It has a joint venture agreement with Groupe DANONE to operate two weight management services pilot centers in Hongyi Plaza and Hong Kong New World Tower (Shanghai), the central region of Shanghai. Weight Watchers International was founded in 1961 and is based in New York, New York.
$16.48 (03/04/09)
