NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 6, 2007 – The Stew Leonard's Holiday Gift Catalog is now available in-store and online at www.StewsGifts.com featuring 40 gift baskets, towers and tins from this world-famous "Disneyland of Dairy Stores."

"Stew Leonard's is known having fresh and unique items. This year, we put even more of our food stores' best-selling products in the catalog and online, including these new items: Hand-made kettle cooked potato chips, California-grown roasted pistachios, jumbo hand-cooked Virginia peanuts and our fresh-roasted coffee," said Beth Leonard Hollis, who founded the gift center in 1982.

What keeps people coming back year after year (70 percent of orders are from repeat customers) is Stew Leonard's legendary customer service and value. All baskets are hand-packed, ship the same day they are ordered and come with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. While the prices have remained the same, the quality of the baskets and the number of items in each gift offer a significant value compared to other gift companies.

Following are Stew Leonard's Gifts top-sellers in each category:

• For the sweet tooth: The Sweet Treats Basket is the most popular basket year after year and contains: Stew's famous chocolate chip cookies, caramel popcorn, chocolate truffles, peanut brittle and butter mints along with caramel peanut patties and dark chocolate cherry almond bark for $29.99.
• Fresh fruit fanatics love: The Awesome Fruit Basket which combines Stew's farm fresh fruit (apples, pears, grapefruit, oranges) with cheeses, sausages, coffee, cookies, nuts and candy for $79.99.
• In the fresh-baked goodies category, Stew Leonard's Brownie Buckets win rave reviews. The buckets contain three different varieties of brownies (brownie bash - fudgey brownies with chocolate icing topped with white and milk chocolate chips; blondies - a brownie version of a chocolate chip cookie; and turtle brownies with chocolate and caramel chips and pecans). The buckets come in three sizes and can also be customized with a company logo.
• Snack lovers savor the Just Right Snack Basket, that contains three different cheeses, summer sausage, crackers and breadsticks, cashews and mixed nuts as well as Stew’s coffee and green tea for $49.99.

Stew Leonard's Gifts (www.stewsgifts.com) are available year-round, although the holidays are by far the busiest time, with more than 100,000 baskets shipped out in November and December and 2,000 visitors a day to the online gift center. While more than half of orders are placed online, customers can also pick up a catalog at any Stew Leonard’s store or request a catalog by mail by calling 1-800-SAY-STEW (729-7839). All items in the catalog are available through summer 2008.

For corporate gifts, Stew Leonard's offers customized logo tins filled with brownies, chocolate covered and peanut butter filled pretzels or a happy trails snack mix. To ensure holiday delivery, logo tins can be ordered through November 15 by calling a business gift specialist at 1-800-976-6886. Volume discounts on baskets are also available.

About Stew Leonard's
Stew Leonard's is a foodies' Mecca, where people often make a special trip for the stores' farm-fresh produce, milk from Stew's own dairy farm, from-scratch baked goods and other gourmet goodies prepared daily. Founded in 1969, Stew Leonard's is still family-owned and operated with three locations in Connecticut (Norwalk, Danbury and Newington), as well as Yonkers, N.Y. The company was named among FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" for the past six consecutive years. For more information, visit www.stewleonards.com.