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People with Little Hands Laud Pampered Chef Santoku Knife

Finally, a decent knife for small hands.

Launched as part of its new artichoke-colored line of kitchen gadgets, The Pampered Chef's lightweight Color Coated Santoku Knife sports a 5-inch ultra-sharp blade.

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Pampered Chef Gadgets

Janice Gerol, vice-president and general manager of Pampered Chef Canada (a company that sells kitchen products), says people are drawn to culinary tools because they want to save time, as well as make life more enjoyable and easier in the kitchen.

Pampered Chef top sellers include a family of whisks, a garlic press that works on unpeeled cloves, food choppers and a cheese grater.

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The Pampered Chef Leases 265,000SF in Illinois

The Pampered Chef has signed a 10-year, 265,000-square-foot lease at the Swift Center I with developer, IDI. The Center is located on Meadow Lane in Addison, IL. NAI Hiffman’s industrial brokerage group executive vice president Anthony J. Burns and executive vice president John F. Cash represented both tenant and developer. Tom George and Jeff Lanaghan directed the project for IDI. The new pre-cast building, Swift Center I, features 36’ clear ceiling heights, an ESFR sprinkler system and is situated on 14 acres of land. Kajima Construction Services is the General Contractor of the building which was completed in September 2006. The new building provides additional distribution capacity for The Pampered Chef, which took occupancy in early October 2006, augmenting its 790,000-square-foot corporate headquarters and distribution center located across the street.

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Pampered Chef Pampers Second Harvest Food Bank

Last September, an empty Wal-Mart in Baker, just outside of Baton Rouge, became the world's largest food bank, the biggest in the history of food banking. Through its two loading docks, a half-million pounds of food a day moved to hurricane-stricken southern Louisiana.Advertisement The food that moved through there and other Louisiana food banks came from all over the country, from the largest and smallest food processors, from donors of all kinds. A 7-year-old girl in Chicago raised $17 selling her toys. Movie star John Travolta flew in food and water on his private jet. Food drives were held in cities across the nation.It was a miracle of charity, courtesy of the local and national network of America's Second Harvest. Second Harvest does not have the highest of profiles in disaster relief. It doesn't have big logos on its trucks, or lots of labels on the food it delivers. It just gets food and moves it to where it's most needed.

Bountiful Harvest

Pampered Chef Summer Potluck

Presentation is a big part of a summer potluck, along with a plan to transport food to its final destination, said Spaedt, an independent kitchen consultant for The Pampered Chef, makers of kitchen tools and serving dishes.

Potluck perfection

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Home Is Where the Sales Are

In 1993, Terri Newberry, 43, was looking for a way to earn extra income without having to put her kids in day care. When a friend told her about direct-sales company The Pampered Chef, Newberry decided to look into it.

She learned that the more than 70,000 Pampered Chef consultants worldwide sell the company's line of cooking products to consumers in their homes, at friendly gatherings called cooking shows. She also heard that her $100 startup investment could yield hundreds per month in income, so she decided to try it out.

During her first month as a Pampered Chef consultant, Newberry held five cooking shows and made $502. By her fourth month, she made $1,000. "The business grew much faster than I expected," she says. In 2005, her income from Pampered Chef demonstrations was $118,000, or nearly $10,000 a month, and she is now an executive director, a position for the company's top-performing consultants.

The key to Newberry's success is discipline, she says. "Direct sales is an industry that anyone can try, but not everyone can be successful in. Some people need someone telling them what to do," and that doesn't happen in a direct-sales business.

To keep her business on track, Newberry typically works from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. four or five days a week, plus a couple of nights a week.

Although The Pampered Chef specializes in selling cookware, Newberry doesn't believe you need to be a gourmet chef to be successful. You do, however, need to be passionate about what you're selling, whether it's cookware, cleaning products or makeup.

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Pampered Chef creator opens new UI building

Doris Kelley Christopher, a 1967 graduate of the University, created the Pampered Chef, Ltd., a company that allows people to sell kitchen utensils to their friends, out of her basement 25 years ago. Dr. Laurie Kramer, professor in the Department of Human and Community Development, said that Christopher first donated money to the University in 2000 to begin the Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program. This program provides funding for faculty endowments, graduate fellowships and a lecture series providing education to the public about strengthening families.

"She had very fond memories of her time at the University of Illinois, and Bevier Hall in particular, and felt strongly about finding an appropriate way to give back," said Kramer, director of the program. "And she's done that in many magnificent ways.

"The success of the program gave cause for Christopher and her husband Jay to increase their gift to the University, with the donation of $10 million for the new building that will house the Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program, among others.

"One of the reasons that she donated this building was that she wanted all the faculty in human development and family studies to basically be in the same place so we could work more effectively with one another," Kramer said, explaining the former facilities in Bevier Hall and the Child Development Laboratory were not ideal for the program.

Diane Marlin, coordinator of the Pampered Chef Family Resiliency program, said the building itself cost $8.5 million, with the remaining $1.5 million to be used as an endowment for maintenance that will generate funds that will help maintain specialized areas of the building including the labs, audio/visual equipment and the adjoining family resiliency research home.

Pampered Chef creator opens new UI building - News

 

 

Independant Sales Director Helps Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank

Gail Carlson, an independent sales director for Pampered Chef, presented Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank with a check for $1,390.68. The check represents donations from customers and independent consultants through Pampered Chef's "Round Up from the Heart" charitable giving campaign in the area.

Duluth News Tribune | 05/08/2006 | Good Deeds Notes

 

 

When top salespeople get to ride the waves

In the last two months, Pampered Chef has sponsored three incentive cruises for about 3,300 salespeople aboard Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas and Enchantment of the Seas with a precruise stay at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Florida, for the best sales producers.

When top salespeople get to ride the waves - Business - International Herald Tribune

 

 

Pampered Chef Voted best Basting Bottle

Summer is almost here, and that means backyard cookouts. To help you prepare, experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute have tested some handy new grilling tools that will help make outdoor cooking a cinch. (Good Housekeeping also has grilling tips and recipes on its Web site, goodhousekeeping.com.)Better briquettes: If you love the incomparable flavor you get by cooking over charcoal but are frustrated by how long it takes to heat the coals, we have good news: All Kingsford Charcoal Briquettes ($2.99 to $11.99) now have Sure Fire Grooves and have been reformulated to help them light more quickly, ash over sooner and stay hot longer. (kingsford.com)

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