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The Pampered Chef [sound recording] : the story of one of America's most beloved companies / Doris Christopher.

by Christopher, Doris.

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Random House Audio, p2005.

COMPACT DISC 381.456838 C556p

Christopher, Doris.

Pampered Chef, Ltd. -- History.

Kitchen utensils industry -- Illinois -- History.

[sound recording] :

4 compact sound discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.

"Includes an exclusive interview with the author and her daughter, Julie Christopher, who grew up in the business"--Container.

Read by the author with a foreword by Warren Buffett.

"In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former home economist and teacher, was itching to get back into the workforce after an eight-year hiatus as a stay-at-home mom. Drawing on her personal and professional expertise, and determined to make cooking easier and more convenient for families, she started selling high-quality kitchen tools through cooking demonstrations to groups of women in their homes. Today, the company she started in her basement, The Pampered Chef, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary and has grown into a corporation (now owned by Berkshire Hathaway) with tens of thousands of independent Kitchen Consultants who present more than a million Kitchen Shows a year, attended by more than 12 million people. The Pampered Chef is the story of the vision, energy, hard work, and chutzpah that drove Christopher and her company to the height of success. She describes her early days as a “one-woman show,” chronicles the company’s gradual expansion, its challenges and growing popularity, and the process, offers invaluable advice and sound strategies on how to found and grow a business, including: • Hard learned lessons for start-up entrepreneurs • How to create a business concept and set your priorities • Knowing when to expand and when to slow growth so that demand doesn’t overwhelm your operations or supplies • How to counter the naysayers and deal with adversity. Today, as at the company’s founding, achieving a better balance between work and family remains central to The Pampered Chef’s mission. The Pampered Chef brings Christopher’s recipe for success to women, and men, everywhere."--Container.

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