Gourmet Gift Baskets
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Online food sales |
| Predecessor | Chalifour’s Flowers |
| Founded 📆 | 2002 in Manchester, New Hampshire |
| Founder 👔 | Ryan Abood |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
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| Products 📟 | Gift baskets |
| Brands | GourmetGiftBaskets.com KingOfPOP.com Cheesecake.com Strawberries.com |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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Gourmet Gift Baskets (also known as GourmentGiftBaskets.com) is an American online company that produces and sells gift baskets containing food products. The company has set the Guinness World Records for the world’s largest cupcake, coffee, and iced coffee. The company also operates three other websites that sell cheesecake, popcorn, and chocolate-covered berries respectively.
Founding[edit]
The business was founded in 2002, and was originally located in the basement of Chalifour’s Flowers in Manchester, New Hampshire.[1] The company was created by Ryan Abood, a son of the owners who felt that the gift baskets being sold in-store could also find a market online.[2] Abood became the President and CEO of the online business.[3]
In 2008 the company was temporarily hit with a Google penalty after it hired a black-hat SEO company, which the company has stated it did by mistake. The company returned to the Google rankings after applying for reinstatement, though the incident cost the company $4 million.[4] The following year, incidentally, the company was ranked in the 37th spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing US companies nationally,[5][6] and ranked second in the food and beverage category.[7] As of 2013 the company had about $20 million in revenues per year.[8]
The business later relocated into a series of rented warehouse buildings of increasing size in Manchester, Londonderry, and finally Kingston, New Hampshire.[1] In 2017 they began building their first new building, a 120,000 square-foot space in Exeter, New Hampshire.[9] The construction was partially funded by a federal Community Development Block Grant for the facility’s new equipment.[10]
Other websites[edit]
The company later opened three sister websites. These included a popcorn sale site called KingOfPOP.com;[1] a cheesecake and baked goods focused site Cheesecake.com (which it acquired in 2012);[11] and a company focused on chocolate-covered berries called Strawberries.com.[1] In 2016 the estate of Michael Jackson tried to have KingOfPoP.com shut down over its name being close to one of Jackson’s famous trademarks.[12] The site was acquired in 2012 from an owner that previously ran a Michael Jackson fan site, however Fox News wrote in its brief coverage of the event that, “It’s hard to image that Michael Jackson would ever be confused with popcorn.”[13] The company also produces holiday-specific gift baskets for various holiday seasons or life events,[14][15][16][17] as well as other items like beer tasting buckets.[18]
World records[edit]
The company has set several Guinness World Records. In 2009 the company created the world’s largest cupcake in Detroit, Michigan: eleven feet in circumference, it was eight times larger than the previous record holder,[19] weighing 1224 lbs.[20] In 2010 the company then created the world’s largest cup of coffee (2,010 gallons) and cup of iced coffee (1,500 gallons) at the Mandalay Resort in Las Vegas.[21]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jason Schreiber (July 16, 2016). "GourmetGiftBaskets is galloping". New Hampshire Union Leader.
- ↑ "Family Business Case Study: GourmetGiftBaskets.com Takes On The Giants - with Ryan Abood - Mixergy". Mixergy.
- ↑ Cassidy Swanson (February 14, 2015). "Businesses feeling the pinch after historic snowfall". New Hampshire Union Leader.
- ↑ Nitasha Tiku (September 1, 2010). "How Google Cost Me $4 Million". Inc. Magazine.
- ↑ Liisa Rajala (August 22, 2014). "20 N.H. companies ranked in Inc. 5000". New Hampshire Business Review.
- ↑ Nathan Schneider (May 27, 2015). "5 Ways To Take Tech Back". The Nation.
- ↑ David L. Bodde, Caron H. St. John (2012). Chance and Intent: Managing the Risks of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Routledge. p. 51. Search this book on
- ↑ Mike Cote (December 14, 2013). "Kingston company still needs Google in the gift basket". New Hampshire Union Leader.
- ↑ Michael Cousineau (January 15, 2017). "Construction firms are back in demand in NH". New Hampshire Union Leader.
- ↑ "Funds for crime lab, victims programs approved". New Hampshire Union Leader. December 8, 2016.
- ↑ Amy Dusto (May 4, 2012). "GourmetGiftBaskets.com acquires Cheesecake.com". Digital Commerce 360.
- ↑ Bill Donahue (October 24, 2014). "Brand Battles: Michael Jackson, Marine Corps, McDonald's". Law 360.
- ↑ "Michael Jackson's estate sues popcorn maker". Fox News. 29 February 2016.
- ↑ Post, Latin (23 December 2014). "The Perfect Christmas & Holiday 2014 Gift Basket: Starbucks, Harry and David". Latin Post.
- ↑ Autumn Rose (March 25, 2016). "13 ways to save on Easter baskets for kids". Las Vegas Review Journal.
- ↑ Beth J. Harpaz (September 20, 2013). "Forget homemade, parents order college care packages online". Christian Science Monitor.
- ↑ Kareem Shaker (April 6, 2012). "Where to Buy the Ultimate Easter Basket". Miami New Times.
- ↑ "GourmetGiftBaskets.com Offers Buckets for Global Beer Lovers". The Daily Meal. August 3, 2016.
- ↑ "World's largest cupcake unveiled in Detroit". The Telegraph. August 19, 2009.
- ↑ Palmer, Alex (11 May 2012). "Weird-o-pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising Strange and Incredibly Bizarre Facts About (Supposedly) Ordinary Things". Skyhorse Publishing. p. 11.
- ↑ Polly Mosendz (September 29, 2015). "7 Coffee Related World Records in Honor of National Coffee Day". Newsweek.
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