Shaklee was green before green was cool. Now the company is applying that forward-thinking philosophy to SAAS. Shaklee, based in Pleasanton, Calif., has been around for more than 50 years. What started with a vitamin formulation developed by Dr. Forrest Shaklee has evolved into a broad spectrum of all-natural cleaning, nutritional and skin-care products that have recently won accolades from no less than Oprah Winfrey and nods in Time, Woman's Day and In Style, among many other magazines. This is something of a resurgence for the company, which was taken private almost four years ago by Roger Barnett (now the company's chairman and CEO) and private equity organizations. In 1982, Shaklee was a Fortune 500 company, but between then and 2004, when the company was acquired, Shaklee had been shrinking, according to the company's CIO, Ken Harris.
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