Limoneira Company: Amazon.com Selects Limoneira Company for Its Gourmet Foods Program
Amazon.com Selects Limoneira Company for Its Gourmet Foods Program SANTA PAULA, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — November 27, 2006 — LimoneiraCompany (PINKSHEETS: LMNR), one of the largest growers of citrus in theU.S., announced it has been selected by Amazon.com to offer its OrchardFresh
Gift Baskets through the online retailer’s Gourmet Foods store.Limoneira’s fresh fruit gifts can be found at www.amazon.com/gourmet.
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Limoneira Company’s Gourmet Holiday Fruit Gift Basket
includes four Hass avocados, four Blood oranges,
four premium lemons, four Meyer lemons, four guacamole
seasoning packs, a 12 oz. jar of Heritage Valley
honey, pistachios, almonds, cashews and walnuts.
Limoneira Company
Orchard Fresh Gift Baskets
“Dating back more than a century, Limoneira has a rich heritage andlong-standing tradition in the art of growing the finest quality freshfruit,” says Alex Teague, Limoneira senior vice president. “We are proud tojoin Amazon.com with its high standards of customer service and itsstate-of-the-art merchandising technology to offer our gourmet fresh fruitgifts.”
The exclusive selection of Limoneira specialty gourmet gift baskets offeredat Amazon.com’s Gourmet Food store features an assortment of premiumCalifornia-grown fruit including silky smooth Hass avocados, tangy tartlemons, navel oranges, tangerines, blood oranges and limes.
Packaged with succulent fresh lemons and oranges, Limoneira’s “Unique Holiday GiftBasket” includes newly released editions of rare prints from thecompany’s private collection of vintage fruitcrate labels. This is the first public release since the 1920s ofLimoneira’s Santa® fruit crate label, which measures 8 3/4″ by 12 1/2″and is suitable for framing. Originally published in 1927 by the renownedSchmidt Lithographers company of Los Angeles, the vintage Limoneira ’sSanta® fine art crate label features a snowy bearded Santa Claus,carrying a bagful of lemons.
The “California ChristmasCelebration Fruit Citrus Basket” features gourmet citrus ripened inLimoneira’s fertile Southern California orchards. Extra care shows in eachpiece of fruit, hand-selected for optimal ripeness and quality. Thisexclusive gourmetholiday food gift basket is filled with navel oranges, premium lemons,tangerines, blood oranges and limes. Coupled with delicious almonds,pistachios and chocolate almonds, this gift provides a wonderfulsalty-sweet balance.
Founded in 1893, Limoneira Company,has grown to be one of the premier integrated agribusiness operations inthe world. Today, Limoneira and its affiliated companies encompassthousands of acres of rich agricultural lands throughout California alongwith strategic investments in food processing, fresh produce marketing,agritourism and specialty produce packing.
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