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Home > Company Index > Retail > Home Furnishing & Housewares Retailing > Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc.

Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc.
 PROFILE
If silk flowers and sconces are your thing, Home Interiors & Gifts wants in your house. The company makes or purchases decorating accessories, which about 60,000 independent "displayers" then sell through home parties, mainly in the US but also in Mexico and Puerto Rico. Its products (framed artwork, candles, plaques, artificial flowers) are geared toward women on a budget; most items sell for $7-$30. The company was founded in 1957 by Mary Crowley, sister-in-law of makeup maven Mary Kay Ash. Executives led by Joey Carter (Crowley's grandson) and buyout firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst recapitalized Home Interiors & Gifts in 1998 in an intermediate step toward taking it public. Hicks, Muse owns 66% of the firm.

 COMPETITION
Garden Ridge Corporation (dossier)
Interiors, Inc. (INTXA)
Michaels Stores, Inc. (MIKE)

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 460.40
1-Yr. Sales Growth: (8.5)%
Employees: 1,200
Revenue per employee: $383,666.67

 KEY PEOPLE
• Donald J. Carter
    CEO
• Kenneth J. Cichocki
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
1649 Frankford Road, W
Carrollton, TX 75007
US
Phone: 972-386-1000
Fax: 972-386-1112
Online: Web Site

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