Chamber Inspiration Luncheon featuring Stampin Up! CEO Shelli Gardner

Shelli Gardner has led Stampin’ Up! through more than two decades of growth and challenge.  With its manufacturing facility in Kanab, Utah, corporate office and distribution center in Riverton, Utah, Stampin’ Up! employs over 500 employees worldwide.
 
The company’s offerings include a multitude of paper crafting products, and the company operates in 10 countries with tens of thousands of demonstrators who help others enjoy creativity.
 
In addition to Stampin’ Up!, Shelli’s entrepreneurial spirit and desire to help others led to the building of Brick Canvas, a beautiful facility located at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah.  Brick Canvas houses unique studios that offer services designed to help people improve their health and well-being.
 
While Shelli has certainly experienced success in the business world, she is most grateful for the opportunities she has as a wife, mother, and grandmother.  She and her sweetheart of 34 years, Sterling, have five daughters and sons-in-law and 16 grandchildren.
 
Shelli will share a few of the lessons she’s learned and values she believes in from her experience as a business leader for over 25 years.

• Stampin' Up!, a 23-year-old, multimillion-dollar, direct-sales company, offers an exclusive line of decorative rubber stamp sets and accessories for home décor, greeting cards, craft projects and scrapbooking. 
• Based in Utah, Stampin' Up! operates two state-of-the-art facilities including a 300,000-square-foot home office in Riverton, Utah, a southern suburb of Salt Lake City, and an 80,000-square foot manufacturing plant in Kanab, Utah.
• Stampin' Up! introduces more than 100 new stamp sets and accessories annually in its full-color US catalog, and now offers products in the Pacific Rim, Europe, and Canada.
• Its products are not sold in stores, but may be purchased at home workshops or through a network of independent sales consultants called Stampin' Up! "demonstrators." Currently, more than 45,000 demonstrators from all 50 US states, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, the United Kingdom,  and Canada teach the art of stamping and share their enthusiasm for stamping, scrapbooking, and card making.
• States with the highest number of Stampin' Up! demonstrators include Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
• Stampin' Up!'s line of exclusive decorative rubber stamps are sold in coordinating sets. 
• Stampin' Up! accessories including papers, stamp pads, ribbons, metal embellishments, and markers are offered in coordinating color families.
• From 2000 through 2005, the Utah 100 Group listed the company as one of Utah's fastest growing companies.
• Shelli Gardner, Stampin' Up!'s CEO and cofounder, received the prestigious Utah Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1999 and was listed as one of Utah's 100 Most Influential People by Utah Business Magazine in 2004, and one of 30 Women to Watch in 2008.
• Stampin' Up! is a major employer in Kane County, Utah, where both its manufacturing plants are located.