Oriental Trading Company

Oriental Trading Company Headquarters Location

Omaha, NE

About Oriental Trading Company
Oriental Trading Company has one simple mission: to make life more fun. For individuals, nonprofits, churches and schools, we provide countless reasons to share smiles while making all of life's moments more special.

We’re the nation’s largest direct retailer of value-priced party supplies, arts and crafts, toys and novelties, and a leading provider of teaching supplies and home décor. Our company has a history of fun that spans for the better part of the last century. Founded in 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska by a Japanese American, we were one of the nation’s first wholesale providers of novelties and gifts. Today, we offer more than 60,000 products and have continued our long-standing commitment to excellent customer service by offering the best selection at the best price.

With a corporate vision to “Make Life More Fun,” we spread joy and smiles to millions each year through a robust family of brands; Oriental Trading, Fun Express, Fun365, MindWare, SmileMakers, Halloween Express and Morris Costumes.

For 90 years, we've helped friends and families around the world spark imaginations and celebrate special moments. Spreading fun one smile at a time? That's our specialty!
Values

At Oriental Trading, each and every role has a meaningful impact on our customers and vision—to make life more fun! And we do that day in and day out by living our values.

Benefits

Health & Wellness: Our most valuable asset is our people.  That’s why we offer a company 401K matching program, comprehensive wellness and employee assistance programs, and provide medical coverage at an awesome rate for you and your family.  You focus on taking care of business, and we’ll focus on taking care of you.


Peace of Mind: Life happens.  Which is why we’re there with a helping hand when it’s needed most.  We offer basic life insurance, maternity and paternity leave, medical and family leave, and disability insurance or salary continuation for personal illness or injury.


OTC University: Level up your skill set!  To help you grow in your career, tuition assistance, career advancement and individual development opportunities are available for both full-time and part-time employees.


Employee Discount: To help you become one of our biggest ambassadors, enjoy 40% off our entire selection of fun finds when you join our team.


Paid Time Off: Rested, relaxed and ready to work.  We know when you’re feeling better, you’ll perform better.  That’s why we offer a competitive vacation accrual rate, with 15 days given your first year here.


Company Events: We work hard and play harder.  A company summer picnic?  Count on it.  An annual dart tournament?  Yep.  Team outings, catered lunches, and holiday boxes full of our product?  Check, check, and check.


Relaxed Atmosphere: Ties are a thing of the past.  In fact, so are cubes.  Our open offices create open communication and a casual atmosphere. Want to work in jeans?  Go for it.


Event Tickets: Get ready to cheer! That's right, we give away tickets to the hottest concerts, sporting events and more. From the front lines to the front row, get your fandom on!

Giving Back
Here at Oriental Trading, we love that customers rely on us to help them celebrate special moments, feed their creativity and simply make life more fun, and we don’t take that responsibility lightly! We happily show our gratitude by giving back to the communities that have let us into their lives and hearts.

From our headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, we have a community giving program that’s made up of three pillars—community partnerships, community donations and community volunteering—and is all about enhancing the lives of children through education, youth programming, healthcare and human services. With the help of employees across the company, Oriental Trading is able to support local nonprofits to do our part in making the Omaha metro an even better place to live, work and play!

Serving our local community is important to be sure, but we’re also committed to bettering lives of humanity around the globe. That’s why we created our corporate giving program to help extend our outreach beyond our backyard. Through this program, nonprofit organizations apply for merchandise certificates to use for fundraising events and educational programs. In 2019 alone, nearly 12,000 merchandise certificates were given to nonprofit organizations. That’s a lot of impact!

It’s no secret that we love any reason to celebrate, but we really get behind celebrations that bring joy to others! We’re especially passionate in our belief that every child deserves a birthday bash that makes them feel special. That’s why we’re very proud to be a sponsor of The Birthday Party Project, a nonprofit that hosts birthday parties for kids in over 60 homeless and transitional facilities across the country!

Number of Employees in Oriental Trading Company

1,001 to 5,000

Oriental Trading Company Revenue

R5bn to R10bn