Amazon.com selects Limoneira Company for its Gourmet Foods Program
SANTA PAULA, CA—(MARKET WIRE)—Nov 27, 2006—Limoneira Company (Other OTC:LMNR.PK - News), one of the largest growers of citrus in the U.S., announced it has been selected by Amazon.com to offer its Orchard Fresh Gift Baskets through the online retailer's Gourmet Foods store. Limoneira's fresh fruit gifts can be found at www.amazon.com/gourmet.
"Dating back more than a century, Limoneira has a rich heritage and long-standing tradition in the art of growing the finest quality fresh fruit," says Alex Teague, Limoneira senior vice president. "We are proud to join Amazon.com with its high standards of customer service and its state-of-the-art merchandising technology to offer our gourmet fresh fruit gifts."
The exclusive selection of Limoneira specialty gourmet gift baskets offered at Amazon.com's Gourmet Food store features an assortment of premium California-grown fruit including silky smooth Hass avocados, tangy tart lemons, navel oranges, tangerines, blood oranges and limes.
Packaged with succulent fresh lemons and oranges, Limoneira's "Unique Holiday Gift Basket" includes newly released editions of rare prints from the company's private collection of vintage fruit crate labels. This is the first public release since the 1920s of Limoneira'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 renowned Schmidt Lithographers company of Los Angeles, the vintage Limoneira 's Santa® fine art crate label features a snowy bearded Santa Claus, carrying a bagful of lemons.
The "California Christmas Celebration Fruit Citrus Basket" features gourmet citrus ripened in Limoneira's fertile Southern California orchards. Extra care shows in each piece of fruit, hand-selected for optimal ripeness and quality. This exclusive gourmet holiday 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 wonderful salty-sweet balance.
Founded in 1893, Limoneira Company, has grown to be one of the premier integrated agribusiness operations in the world. Today, Limoneira and its affiliated companies encompass thousands of acres of rich agricultural lands throughout California along with strategic investments in food processing, fresh produce marketing, agritourism and specialty produce packing.
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