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Home Interiors & Gifts was founded in 1957 by Mary C. Crowley and became one of the best-known home-party direct-selling companies in the United States. The Carrollton, Texas-based company sold home décor and decorative accessories, including candles, framed art, mirrors, sconces, shelves, artificial flowers, small furniture, figurines, and related household accents. Its products were marketed through in-home parties and personal-selling relationships rather than traditional retail stores.
Home Interiors operated as a party-plan direct-selling company with a compensation structure built around independent sales representatives, historically known as displayers. Representatives earned commissions on their own sales and could also earn smaller commissions tied to the sales of people they recruited. At its peak, Home Interiors sold through more than 140,000 representatives in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and earlier company-history sources describe annual sales reaching hundreds of millions of dollars.
Home Interiors is no longer active as a standalone U.S. MLM company. In 1994, the company was sold to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst in a leveraged buyout valued at about $1 billion. The business later declined, and Home Interiors & Gifts and related entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 29, 2008. After the bankruptcy, Home Interiors' U.S. business was combined with Home & Garden Party to form Celebrating Home. The original Home Interiors & Gifts estate was liquidated, and Oak Point Partners later acquired remnant assets of the HIG Creditor Trust in October 2014.
Home Interiors' legal/regulatory history includes its 2008 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the Northern District of Texas, Case No. 08-31961. The bankruptcy covered Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc. and related entities, including Dallas Woodcraft Company, House of Lloyd Sales, and Santa Surplus. A plan of liquidation was confirmed, a creditor trust was created, and the remaining estate assets were later sold. No stronger FTC, SEC, state attorney general, or DSSRC enforcement action against Home Interiors & Gifts was identified in the sources reviewed.
Joey Carter, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Mike Lohner, President and Chief Operating Officer
Christi Carter Urschel, Vice Chairman and National Spokesperson
Mary C. Crowley, Founder
Don Carter, Founder
Home Interiors & Gifts Inc. has notified employees at its Carrollton facility that an attempt to sell its operating entities may impact their jobs in the next few months.As reported earlier in the week, Home Interiors & Gifts Inc. asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of Texas for approval to sell its operating entities earlier this week.The move follows the retailer's dec...
Home Interiors & Gifts Inc., which has been reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, will eliminate 83 night jobs at its Carrollton warehouse on July 31. In a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission, the direct seller of home decor products said the layoffs will occur at its site at 1649 Frankford Road West. Employees affected will have the opportunity to move to the day shift in...
Carrollton-based Home Interiors & Gifts Inc. will shutter two subsidiaries at the end of June, leading to the loss of nearly 200 jobs, according to information released Monday by the Texas Workforce Commission. As expected, Home Interiors, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, will close Dallas Woodcraft Co., leading to 119 lost jobs in Dallas County. Home Interiors will also clos...
Home Interiors & Gifts Inc. chief executive and president Richard W. "Dick" Heath said Thursday that he is retiring two years after he agreed to lead the Carrollton-based direct selling company through a restructuring. Heather Chastain, senior vice president of sales support, has been promoted to president, the company said. Ms. Chastain previously was vice president of operations at BeautiC...
Home Interiors and Gifts has introduced its newest fundraising candle, the Something Beautiful Spiced Apricot Petite jar candle.The fragrance blends fresh, juicy apricots with rich notes of clove, cassis and vanilla. Approximate burn time is 48 hours. Candles are $10.99, and Home Interiors donates 100 per cent of its profits from the sale of these candles toward cancer research. With over 100,0...
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