NORWALK, Conn., November 4, 2004 – Shoppers in a dilemma over what to get the “person-who-has-everything,” out-of-town relative or other hard to buy for people on their list for the holiday this year, take heart: Stew Leonard’s Gifts By Mail catalog and online web site -- www.stewleonardsgifts.com – offers more than 40 gift options ranging from fruit and cheese baskets, sweet and savory snack baskets, decorative tins and festive gift towers.

“Stew Leonard’s ships more than 100,000 gifts all over the U.S. during the holiday months of November and December, with 70 percent of orders coming from repeat customers, which means happy customers,” said said Beth Leonard Hollis, founder of Bethy’s Bakery and the Gift Center at Stew Leonard’s. “All of our gifts are hand-packed, ship the same business day and come delivered in our signature ‘cow-motif’ box which is always a hit when it arrives on the doorstep.”

The holidays are the gift center’s busiest time, with more than 2,000 visitors a day to the online gift center. Last year, Stew Leonard’s launched a separate web site just for the gift center, stewleonardsgifts.com. Today, more than a third of orders are placed online. In addition, the Gifts By Mail catalog is available at all three Stew Leonard’s stores (Norwalk and Danbury, Conn. and Yonkers, N.Y.) or can be mailed to customers on request. Orders may also be placed by calling 1-800-SAY-STEW (729-7839). All items in the catalog are available through summer 2005 and come with a “100 percent money back guarantee” if for any reason a customer is not satisfied.

Some new items as well as the most popular gifts include;

• NEW! Home for the Holidays and Home Sweet Home: A keepsake house box filled with a choice of potpourri and four different scented candles, or a selection of chocolates, cookies and coffee. Great for house warming, realtors, and hostess gifts. ($29.99)

• Jumbo Fruit & Cheese Basket: This basket is hand-packed and chock-full of fruit fresh from the farm and gourmet cheeses, including red delicious, gala and granny smith apples, grapefruit, Florida oranges, Bosc pears, table water crackers and cheddar and gouda cheeses. This basket is a great value, since it has more fruit and is nearly half the cost of the leading national fruit basket. ($49.99).

• Sweet Treats Basket: The number-one selling basket is brimming with goodies that are easy to share with co-workers and friends. Includes Stew Leonard's chocolate chip cookies, butter toasted peanuts, caramel popcorn, butter mints, vanilla and chocolate caramels and chocolate truffles. ($29.00)

• Handmade Stackems: Stackable containers that come in a shape of a snowman or cow, and filled with layers of chocolate covered bing cherries, assorted hard candy and toffees, pistachios, butter toasted peanuts, cashews, milk chocolate drops and after dinner mints. Available in small ($29.99), medium ($39.99) and large ($59.99).