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Overview Harry & David had its beginnings 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.

Innovation and bold marketing defined the company's early periods of growth. In 1938, Harry and David came up with the idea of the Fruit-of-the-Month Club, which allows customers to automatically send or receive fruit gifts throughout the year. The Tower of Treats, introduced in 1947, provides holiday cheer to thousands of American families. These and other Harry & David innovations have been widely imitated.

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