Description Colony Brands deals in sweet treats, comfy clothes, and kitschy gifts. Through its flagship Swiss Colony unit, the company makes, markets, and distributes seasonal and special-occasion food gift products through its mail-order catalogs and websites. Swiss Colony's products include candies, cheeses, cookies and pastries, nut mixes, smoked salmon, and sausages. The company also offers apparel, electronics, furniture, housewares, and gift items through a dozen other merchant units, such as Country Door, Ginny's, Midnight Velvet, and Montgomery Ward; its Tender Filet business markets restaurant-quality steaks and seafood, desserts, and wine gifts. Formerly The Swiss Colony, the company renamed itself in mid-2010.
Swiss Colony has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 84 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Swiss Colony employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).
Overall, 58% of employees would recommend working at Swiss Colony to a friend. This is based on 84 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
60% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Swiss Colony as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Swiss Colony.