ABOUT LE GOURMET
LE GOURMET CREDENTIALS
ABOUT LE GOURMET
Le Gourmet Gift Basket, Inc. began as a small, home-based business in Denver, Colorado in
1992. Since then, Le Gourmet Gift Basket, Inc. has expanded both internationally and
domestically with over 400 distributorships. The corporation has recently relocated to
Chicago, Illinois.
THE CEO
Rae Hunter, CEO, is a former Le Gourmet distributor. She is a graduate of the
University of Alabama's School of Commerce and Business Administration. As a former
distributor with a successful gift basket business, Rae has firsthand knowledge of what is
needed to successfully run a gift basket business, from the day-to-day operations, to
marketing, to production. She is in tune with the needs of the distributors and able
to guide them in all of the nuances of their businesses. Rae is busily enhancing and
adding features to the many membership levels, negotiating new vendor discounts, and
assisting the distributors in all facets of designing and marketing a professional
product.
LE GOURMET CREDENTIALS
Le Gourmet is the most recognized and acknowledged company of its kind in the world! Our
success is your success. The publicity that we receive provides you with credibility,
respect, reputation (and orders!).
Awards and Media
• Winner of the Association of Mothers Working at Home 2006 Opportunity of the Year
• Voted Top Business to Buy: Entrepreneur Magazine
• Start Your Own Business Magazine's Recommendation for the Top Business to Buy
• Voted one of the top 250 business to buy in the U.S.: Home Business Magazine
• Recipient of the Blue Chip Award: U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Mass Mutual
• Entrepreneur of the Year: Women’s Vision Foundation
• Small Business Advocate of the Year: U.S. Small Business Administration
• Trailblazer Award: American Association of University Women
• Who’s Who in Executives and Business
• Ranked #4 in top 100 fastest growing private companies in Colorado: Denver Business
Journal
• 13 television programs including ABC 20/20, The Today Show , Lifetime Television,
CNN, FOX NEWS, DISCOVERY, AND The Learning Channel.
• 12 Magazine covers including Woman’s World, By Design, and Opportunity World
• 30+ Magazines including, TIME, Entrepreneur, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home
Journal, U.S. News and World Report, Woman’s Day, and FIRST For Women.
• Over 80 Newspapers including USA TODAY, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO
TIMES, and WALL STREET JOURNAL.
• Featured in 4 International Publications, 3 books, and 3 national web sites.
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CREDENTIALS
Basket Photos by Mark Stout Photography
