2938 Brown Road, Marshall, TX 75672
Contact: Nancy Fessler
Day: (903) 935-4197 ext. 1604
Evening: (903) 746-3849
nfessler@homeandgardenparty.com

2007 Fact Sheet

• Home & Garden Party® was founded in 1996 by Steve and Penny Carlile.
• The first Home & Garden Party was held in May, 1996.
• Today, there are about 15,000 parties held each month.
• There are more than 24,000 independent Designers across the United States who provide decorating ideas and high quality products to their customers.
• Designers-in-Training earn 30% commission on personal sales. After a total of $1500 in personal sales, the Designer gets a raise to 40% commission.
• Designers qualify for additional bonuses and overrides based on their group’s sales. Top level Designers called Diamond Infinity Designers can earn $300,000 or more a year.
• Anyone who hosts a Home & Garden Party can earn free merchandise, a special bonus discount, and beautiful booking gifts based on her party’s results.
• Prices in the Home & Garden Party catalog range from $6.50 for a 10oz jar candle to large room size framed art up to $200. The average item in the line runs under $30 and over three-fourths of the items are exclusive to Home & Garden Party.
• Home & Garden Party offers a number of themes based on popular motifs, including Outdoor Living, Timeless Traditions, Oceanview, Woodsmoke & Trails, and Colorful Collections. Framed art, accessories and greenery compliment each other.
• Framed art includes a selection of exclusive prints, most of them double-matted with genuine wood frames and glass, gallery wrapped and ready to hang.
• High quality, affordable candles are a treat for anyone on any occasion. Home & Garden Party candle fragrances are selected exclusively for their customers and the container candles are all poured in the USA.
• Every piece of Home & Garden Party’s heirloom quality stoneware is microwave, dishwasher and oven safe. Unglazed bakeware offers the taste of brick-oven baking.
• The Home & Garden Party campus in Marshall, Texas has nearly 16 acres under roof.
• Home & Garden Party has more than 300 employees in Marshall, Texas.
• Inside the fulfillment center, there are almost 3 miles of conveyor on which a Designer’s order can travel.
• The town of Marshall, Texas was founded in 1841, four years before Texas became a state.

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