Is Weekenders Canada Really Bankrupt?

[ChefEsther]

Hi, everyone, just wanted to pass on that Weekenders has apparently gone bankrupt (in Canada at least). I wonder what happened.

Esther

 

[PChefPEI]

Yep, heard that too. I actually had a Weekenders consultant at a show the other day and she said that it was a shock to them all. Never saw it coming!

Tried to recruit her....no go.....yet!

 

[Mr. Pampered Chef]

Weekenders has apparently gone bankrupt (in Canada at least)
Esther

Um..who are they? what do they sell? east coast thing?

 

[PChefPEI]

Um..who are they? what do they sell? east coast thing?

They sell clothing. I think they were around for at least 20 years. I do believe they were in other countries as well.

 

[rennea]

Never herd of them before!

 

[kcjodih]

Here's the thread I started a month or so ago about it...

http://www.chefsuccess.com/f18/look-what-my-inbox-morning-38362/

and another started later by someone else...

http://www.chefsuccess.com/f18/weekenders-global-backrupt-38597/

 

[chefbritt]

That's interesting, because I was just reading a magazine that's on newsstands now and there was an article about DS companies, and Weekenders was mentioned along with PC as one of the "tried and true" companies to sign up with. I wonder how many people read that article and went online to sign up, only to find out they went bankrupt.

 

[chefShelby]

I have a friend of mine, actually she's on my team too, who was....this is actually kind of a funny story, maybe not for her. I'll start from the beginning...

She was with Weekenders for YEARS and didn't have much luck with selling it. She'd have open houses and there'd be maybe 1 or 2 people (including me) show up. Then Suzanne Somers started her company "Suzanne" and she signed on with that, still not too much success. Then I talked her into Pampered Chef. I told her she could sell Pampered Chef and use the money she makes with PC to buy her other stuff at the discount (since she always said that was why she mostly signed up was to get the other products cheaper). So after a year or so she did finally sign up with PC just in April I think.

Then Suzanne sold out to Youngevity and maybe a week after that she got the Weekenders email. So she decided that either everything she touches goes to "crud" (keeping it clean) or Pampered Chef was her destiny all along.

Hopefully it's the 2nd one or we'll know who to blame if something happens to Pampered Chef.

The sad thing is she had an open house scheduled when she got the news about Weekenders so she changed it to a clearance sale to clear out all her samples (since Weekenders consultants had to buy clothes in all sizes and most of them where not HER size) and in the short time that I was there she probably had 10 people come. I guess that tells you that people liked the clothes but not so much the prices.

 

[pampered.chris]

That's interesting, because I was just reading a magazine that's on newsstands now and there was an article about DS companies, and Weekenders was mentioned along with PC as one of the "tried and true" companies to sign up with. I wonder how many people read that article and went online to sign up, only to find out they went bankrupt.

What magazine was the article in?!

 

[chefbritt]

What magazine was the article in?!

It was in Family Circle's August Issue. The article highlighted other companies, but not PC. There was just a box at the end of the last page that listed the "tried and true" and "up & coming" DS companies. For "Kitchen/Gourmet", it was PC and Tupperware for "tried and true", and Homemade Gourmet and Tealightful Treasures for "Up and Coming".

Weekenders was one of the tried and true fashion companies. It was also one of the companies that had a large highlight and interview with a consultant. Of the consultants interviewed, her reported income was the highest by far, which makes me wonder how many people are now flocking to the Weekenders website.

The tiny mention of PC isn't worth buying the magazine for, in my opinion. It sort of gets drowned out by all of the larger interviews with other DS companies.