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The Pampered Chef

American multi-level marketing company

Pampered Chef is a multinational multi-level marketing company 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. The company is headquartered in Addison, Illinois, and operates in five countries: the United States, Germany, Canada, Austria, and France.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1980Founded1

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Pampered Chef is a multinational multi-level marketing company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks for preparing food in the home.2

Corporate structure

The Pampered Chef is part of a group headed by Berkshire Hathaway. 1,533 entities, 33 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Berkshire Hathaway Omaha, Nebraska, United States
    • AltaLink 100% · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    • Berkshire Hathaway Energy 89.94% · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • Northern Powergrid Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
        • 4 more
      • NV Energy Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
      • Elmore Subsidiary · Elmore
      • Integrated Utility Services UK Subsidiary · Yorkshire
      • BHE RENEWABLES, LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
        • 4 more
      • BHER POWER RESOURCES, INC. Subsidiary · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
      • CORDOVA ENERGY COMPANY LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • FLAT TOP WIND I, LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • KERN RIVER GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY Subsidiary · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
      • MARIAH DEL NORTE LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • MARSHALL WIND ENERGY LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • MIDAMERICAN ENERGY SERVICES, LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY Subsidiary · Omaha, Nebraska, United States
      • PINYON PINES WIND I, LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • PINYON PINES WIND II, LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • SANTA RITA WIND ENERGY LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
      • SARANAC POWER PARTNERS, L.P. Subsidiary · Wilmington, Delaware, United States
      • TX JUMBO ROAD WIND, LLC Subsidiary · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
    • MidAmerican Energy Company Des Moines, Iowa, United States
    • NEW ENGLAND ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. Farmington, Connecticut, United States
    • PacifiCorp Portland, Oregon, United States
    • Precision Castparts Corp. Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States
      • Special Metals Corporation Subsidiary · New Hartford, New York, United States
      • AETC LIMITED Subsidiary · Leeds, United Kingdom
      • CALEDONIAN ALLOYS LIMITED Subsidiary · Livingston, United Kingdom
      • Cannon-Muskegon Corporation Subsidiary · Muskegon, Michigan, United States
      • Centra Industries Inc. Subsidiary · Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
      • J & L Fiber Services, Inc. Subsidiary · Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
      • KALISTRUT AEROSPACE Subsidiary · Saint-Vallier, France
      • PCC Airfoils, S.A. DE C.V. Subsidiary · Merida, Mexico
      • PCC DISTRIBUTION JAPAN K. K. Subsidiary · Machida Shi, Japan
      • PCC Specialty Products, Inc. Subsidiary · Wexford, Pennsylvania, United States
      • PCC UK FINANCE LIMITED Subsidiary · Leicester, United Kingdom
      • PRECISION CASTPARTS CORP.FRANCE Subsidiary · Ogéu-Les-Bains, France
      • PRECISION CASTPARTS CZ S.R.O. Subsidiary · Plzen, Czechia
      • S. P. S. INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Subsidiary · Shannon, Ireland
      • SHUR-LOK INTERNATIONAL Subsidiary · Verviers, Belgium
      • SPECIAL METALS WIGGIN LIMITED Subsidiary · Hereford, United Kingdom
      • SPS AEROSTRUCTURES LIMITED Subsidiary · Nottingham, United Kingdom
      • SPS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Subsidiary · Leicester, United Kingdom
      • TARPEY-HARRIS LIMITED Subsidiary · Ripley, United Kingdom
      • THE S.P.S. INTERNATIONAL LIMITED PENSION AND LIFE ASSURANCE PLAN Subsidiary · Shannon, Ireland
      • TIMET UK LIMITED Subsidiary · Birmingham, United Kingdom
      • WESTERN AEROSPACE LIMITED Subsidiary · Perth, Australia
      • WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SPECIALTY ALLOYS PTY. LTD. Subsidiary · Perth, Australia
      • Wyman Gordon Monterrey S. de R.L. de C.V. Subsidiary · Guadalupe, Mexico
      • WYMAN-GORDON LIMITED Subsidiary · Hereford, United Kingdom
    • The Pampered Chef Addison
    • Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies Subsidiary
    • biBERK Business Insurance Subsidiary · Omaha, United States
    • Borsheim's Fine Jewelry Subsidiary · Omaha
    • Business Wire Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • BVD Subsidiary · United States
    • Central States Indemnity Subsidiary
    • Dairy Queen Subsidiary · Edina
    • International Metalworking Companies Subsidiary · Galilee
    • ISCAR Metalworking Subsidiary · Western Galilee
    • Kerite Company Subsidiary · Seymour
    • Kirby Company Subsidiary · Cleveland
    • Kraft Heinz Subsidiary · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
      • 161 more
    • Marmon Group Subsidiary · Chicago
      • 1 more
    • Pilot Flying J Subsidiary · Knoxville
      • 1 more
    • Scott Fetzer Company Subsidiary
    • Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Subsidiary · Tel Aviv, Israel
      • 40 more
    • H. J. Heinz Company Stake · 26.8% · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
      • 4 more
    • American Express Stake · 15.6% · New York, New York, United States
      • AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES CO INC New York, New York, United States
        • 7 more
      • 56th Street AXP Campus LLC Subsidiary · Arizona, United States
      • AAC Statutory Trust Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • AE Exposure Management Limited Subsidiary · Jersey
      • AE Innovation Labs Holdings, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • AEOCC Funding Australia Limited Subsidiary · Jersey
      • AEOCC Management Company Limited Subsidiary · Jersey
      • American Express (India) Private Limited Subsidiary · India
      • American Express (Malaysia) SDN. BHD. Subsidiary · Malaysia
      • American Express (Thai) Company Limited Subsidiary · Thailand
      • American Express Argentina S.A. Subsidiary · Argentina
      • American Express Asia Network Consulting (Beijing) Limited Company Subsidiary · China
      • American Express Australia Limited Subsidiary · Australia
      • American Express Bank LLC Subsidiary · Moscow, Russia
      • AMERICAN EXPRESS BANKING CORP. Subsidiary · New York, New York, United States
      • AMEX (Middle East) QFC LLC Subsidiary · Qatar
      • AMEX Assurance Company Subsidiary · Illinois, United States
      • AMEX Insurance Agency (Taiwan) Inc. Subsidiary · Taiwan
      • AXP Insurance Master Trust Subsidiary · New York, United States
      • Loyalty Partner Solutions GmbH Subsidiary · München, Germany
      • and 78 more
    • and 287 more

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The story

Doris Christopher founded Pampered Chef in 1980 in the basement of her suburban Chicago home. Christopher came up with a party plan to offer kitchen tools directly to consumers through in-home cooking demonstrations, a concept first popularized by Tupperware. The company expanded to Canada in 1996, the UK in 1999, Germany in 2000, Austria in 2019, and France in 2020.

The company was acquired in 2002 by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway corporation. On October 30, 2014, Berkshire Hathaway appointed long time advisor Tracy Britt Cool to the position of CEO. According to Direct Selling News, "the company's revenue has fallen from $320 million in 2015 to $280 million in 2018." In March 2020, the company's COO, Andrew Treanor, took over on the role of CEO. Nevena Srebreva, in turn, took over the CEO role in May 2024. She was Pampered Chef's Chief Field & International Officer prior to that.

The company closed its UK business, and wound down UK operations as of December 31, 2015.

From Wikipedia’s article on Pampered Chef, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

In 1990, Pampered Chef released a product known as the Valtrompia bread tube. The product is a metal tube in which refrigerated bread dough can be baked into a narrow, scalloped-edge loaf. As of the late 1990s, the product is available in five shapes—flower, square, heart, scalloped, and star. The bread is baked with the tube placed upright in the oven, allowing the bread to rise vertically along the tube.

There have multiple recalls in Pampered Chef's history. For example, in March 2013, Pampered Chef recalled approximately 286,000 garlic slicers after reports that the slicer's blade could unexpectedly dislodge, posing a laceration hazard to consumers. In December 2011, the company recalled metallic gray aluminum ice cream scoops after incidents where the handle's end caps could blow off when exposed to warm water, resulting in injuries.

From Wikipedia’s article on Pampered Chef, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

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Timeline

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