Even with its success as a major online retailer and creator of unique party supplies, BigDotofHappiness.com continues to showcase its 13-year commitment to family – its own, and that of its team members and customers. Big Dot regularly honors its employees in unique and exciting ways, encourages team members to include family when commemorating company milestones, and is devoted to helping customers celebrate special life occasions like baby showers and birthday parties in the most remarkable way possible. But perhaps the best example of this company’s unique commitment to family is the duo that runs it: The husband-and-wife team of Scott & Sherri Yukel.

“Working with your spouse is a regular reminder of the importance of family,” says Sherri Yukel, founder and president of all Big Dot Shops. “Just like any other partnership, patience and understanding is required – after all, there are peaks and valleys. But when it comes right down to it, we’re a team.”

That partnership started just a few years after Sherri founded the company in 1999. A stay-at-home mom with small children at the time, Sherri started crafting her own baby gifts and was soon receiving regular requests. She turned to the internet to sell her products online and orders for her original character towels and other gift items quickly grew – so much, in fact, that her husband left his engineering job and joined her!

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