May 2015
| Business World
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L’Chef is an industry-leading supplier of small kitchen electrics that believes
in three important values – eating healthy, eating fresh, and eating homemade.
Those values inspired a group of home demonstrators and small gourmet retail-
ers to come together in 1990, and they have driven the company’s tremendous
growth in the 25 years since. According to Dennis Leavitt, General Manager,
those values continue to drive the company, and will lead to heightened growth
in the next 25 years.
L’Chef began around 1990, when a group of successful home demonstrators and
gourmet retailers banded together to secure the exclusive distribution agreement
for BOSCH’s popular Kitchen Mixer line in North America.
BOSCH is a leading technology and service company that operates globally. In
the U.S. and Canada, Boschmanufactures and markets everything from automo-
tive original equipment and aftermarket products, industrial drive and control
technology, packaging technology, power tools, security and communication
systems, home appliances, and more. Their Kitchen Mixer line – like all their
product lines – is known for its high performance German-engineering, and for
