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Pampered Chef is a multinational multi-level marketing company [1] that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks for preparing food in the home. It has a worldwide direct sales force of about 35,000 in addition to 400 corporate staff. [ 2 ]
The Longaberger Company was an American manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other home and lifestyle products. The company opened in 1973, and its handcrafted baskets were a popular home decor item in the 1980s and 1990s.
European Home Retail (dissolved in 2007) Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (dissolved in 2013) FundAmerica (bankrupt in 1990) [25] Holiday Magic (dissolved in 1974) House of Lloyd (a.k.a. "Christmas Around the World") (filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002) Kleeneze (went into administration in 2018) The Longaberger Company (dissolved in 2018) [26]
Home Chef is a Chicago, Illinois-based meal kit and food delivery company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to subscribers weekly in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to the company it delivers three million meals monthly to its subscribers.
Products are researched, designed, and tested by The Pampered Chef, and manufactured by third-party suppliers. From its headquarters in Addison, Illinois, The Pampered Chef utilizes a network of more than 65,000 independent sales representatives to sell its products through home-based party demonstrations, principally in the United States. [85]
A chef who found adventure in food, Anthony Bourdain burst onto the scene with his 2000 memoir, "Kitchen Confidential," which exposed the unsavory inner workings of restaurants and touched on his ...
Schwan's Company's former subsidiary, Schwan's Home Service, rebranded as Yelloh in 2022, remained a privately-held, independent entity owned and operated by the Schwan family. Yelloh, which traced back to the Schwan's home delivery business launched by Marvin Schwan in 1952, sold frozen foods from home delivery trucks, in 13 states.
In 1974, Magic Chef bought the Norge Village Laundry & Dry Cleaners chain. [10] By 1986, the company had become the 249th largest industrial company in the nation, and was sold to Maytag for $740 million. [11] Magic Chef also made home furnaces and air conditioners; that operation was sold to Lennox International in 1988. [12]