Harry and David. Delicious gifts since 1934. HARRY AND DAVID

About Us

Harry & David Operations Corp. is one of the nation's premier direct marketing and e-commerce companies.

On this site, you can learn something about our long and distinguished company history and our outlook on the future.

Our brands – Harry and David gourmet fruit and food gifts, and Jackson & Perkins roses and garden products – have been trusted by generations, not only for superior products, but for unparalleled customer service and impeccable guarantees.

We maintain operations in four locations: Medford, Oregon is our corporate headquarters. We also have facilities in Hebron, Ohio, Somis and Wasco, California, and more than 130 Harry and David Stores throughout the country.

It is our corporate philosophy to benefit customers, employees, shareholders and the community by being the best in all we do, and earn their loyalty and respect through honest relationships and responsible actions. We do this through our Guiding Principles.

Harry & David Operations Corp. was officially established in 2005 as an umbrella organization over the company's fruit, rose, and other business ventures. However, the company really had its beginnings much earlier, just after the turn of the 20th Century.

Samuel Rosenberg, father of Harry and David, was a successful hotel owner in Seattle, Washington, but his true love was agriculture. In 1910 he traded the luxurious Hotel Sorrento for 240 prime acres of pears in Southern Oregon's Rogue River Valley and named them Bear Creek Orchards after the nearby waterway.

Following Sam's death in 1914, his two sons, Harry and David, took over the family orchard business. The brothers were schooled in agriculture at Cornell University and they put their agricultural training to good use. Harry and David decided early on to specialize in the Comice pear for which there was a good export market to the grand hotels and restaurants of Europe. The Rogue Valley proved even better suited to the Comice pear than its birthplace in France. Harry and David named their luxurious pears "Royal Riviera" to set them apart from varieties grown elsewhere. Throughout the Roaring 20's, the fame of Royal Riviera pears spread, and business boomed.

Then came the Crash and Great Depression and Harry and David’s affluent market vanished. There was no question that the Royal Riviera pears were unsurpassed in quality, but how would Harry and David find new buyers? Always innovating, the brothers came up with the idea of selling their pears by mail. In 1934, they made their famous sales trips to San Francisco and New York to visit the captains of industry and pitch their pears as ideal business gifts. Soon orders were rolling in. It was the beginning of Harry and David as America's premier direct marketer of fruit and food gifts. We are proud to be one of the nation's oldest catalog mail order companies.

Today, the company continues to grow and plan for the future and develop new ways to capitalize on Harry & David's brands and our reputation for unmatched quality and customer service.
Any Day Can Be a Celebration – and We Can Help

We’ve been listening to our customers for over 70 years now. And after all that time in the gifting and entertaining business, we take considerable pride in our ability to help make every event a celebration. Here are just a few of the ways we make sure our quality is Cream-of-the-Crop: We grow and select the fruit from our own orchards here in Medford, Oregon. We bake the cakes and cookies, make the chocolates and confections. We pack each gift by hand and ship it in its own specially designed, protective box.

We create the “Harry and David difference” in everything we do, and back it with the Strongest Guarantee in the Business. Our customers and their lucky friends will be delighted, we promise.

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