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1. Pampered Chef
   Host Parties – Mary Kay, Tupperware and the Pampered Chef are all businesses that have been built from home-based parties. Develop a theme for your party, make it interesting and start by inviting your family and friends. Once you have a good presentation prepared, advertise your parties and watch your business grow.
2. Pampered Chef -- Pampered Chef Products
   The Pampered Chef is a premier direct seller of essential kitchen tools and is part of the Berkshire Hathaway family of businesses. The company was founded in 1980 by Doris Christopher and now serves over 12 million customers worldwide. She was inspired to preserve the tradition of family mealtimes by creating tools that would make cooking easy and less time consuming. Her simple plan of offering professional and high quality kitchen equipment through in-home cooking demonstrations to allow customers to see and try her products is one of reasons why it is still so successful today. The Pampered Chef will simply change the way you prepare food because their solutions make home cooking quick, easy and fun.
3. Pampered Chef -- Pampered Chef Kitchen Consultants
   Much of the success of these programs is due to the commitment The Pampered Chef kitchen consultants have to the promotion. The company encourages consultants to facilitate and implement the campaign and has nearly 65% participation among its consultants.
4. Pampered Chef -- Company
   The Pampered Chef is the premier direct seller of high-quality kitchen tools. Since its inception in 1980, the company has been committed to fostering entrepreneurship. Today, The Pampered Chef is a multimillion dollar enterprise and household name across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany.
5. Pampered Chef -- Products
   Thanks to the efforts of The Pampered Chef's 70,000 independent Kitchen Consultants and millions of customers, nearly $825,000 was raised through the Round-Up from the Heart program last year. More than $7 million has been donated to America's Second Harvest since the campaign's inception in 1991. In the 2001 and 2002 issues of Forbes magazine, America's Second Harvest was given a charitable commitment rating of 99 percent. This means that 99 percent of all product and monetary donations received go directly toward feeding the hungry.
6. Pampered Chef -- Doris Christopher
   The Pampered Chef is Doris Christopher’s extraordinary account of how she turned an innovative concept and $3,000 investment into a business with annual sales approaching the billion-dollar mark. It is packed with real-life lessons and inspiring insights for small-business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.
7. Fruit of the Loom -- Company
   At about the same time that Fruit of the Loom lost its direct consumer market, a young immigrant named Jacob (Jack) Goldfarb decided to start his own clothing business. Goldfarb learned about the apparel industry through his work with the Ferguson Manufacturing Company. There he noticed that Ferguson only made low-priced "sale items" available to those retailers who ... purchased the company's higher priced goods. Goldfarb reasoned that if he could provide retailers with strictly lower-priced, quality undergarments, he could establish a popular business.
8. Tupperware -- Companys
   Today Tupperware Corporation, a $1 billion multi-national company, is one of the world's leading direct sellers, with products sold in over 100 countries worldwide. Tupperware stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TUP".
9. Cook -- Great Dane
   Real Men Cook is the ONLY event of its kind -- one that celebrates men as fathers, care givers and pillars of strength to their families and communities. Chef Emeril Lagasse devotes an entire segment to saluting them as "all the great guys who prepare great meals for their families." What he prepares on his show is "a home cooked meal" in tribute to the volunteer efforts of Real Men Cook "who nourish the body, mind and soul of their families by giving up their own chance at being pampered on Father's Day to give something back to the community," says Yvette Moyo. Each audience member is presented with the Real Men Cook cookbook, which includes features profiles, recipes and family stories with a foreword written by presidential candidate Barack Obama.
10. Oceania -- Oceania Cruises
    Oceania Cruises is a relative newcomer to the Cruise industry, but in just a few years they have made quite an impact with the premium and luxury category cruisers. The two mid-size ships, Regatta and Insignia hold 684 passengers with a crew of 400 and offer luxurious surroundings with highly personalized service, fabulous dining and enriching destination oriented experiences.

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