# Liberty Orchards

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{{Short description|Packaged food products company}}
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thumb|right|Aplets & Cotlets

'''Liberty Orchards''' is a packaged food products company located in [Cashmere, Washington](/source/Cashmere%2C_Washington). Founded as an apple farm in 1918 by [Armenian](/source/Armenians) business partners<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7624,| title = The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History - HistoryLink.org}} </ref> Armen Tertsagian and Mark Balaban,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libertyorchards.com/newabout.asp|title=Aplets & Cotlets, Fruit Delights, Orchard Bars, Fruit & Nut Candies|publisher=Liberty Orchards|accessdate=16 January 2016}}</ref> the company moved into canning and then confectionery during the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011220145417/http://www.libertyorchards.com/newabout2.asp Liberty Orchards Aplets & Cotlets: Aplets & Cotlets are born...]</ref>

On March 16, 2021, Liberty Orchards president Greg Taylor announced that the company would close permanently on June 1, 2021.The company was luckily purchased before the close date and are still open to this day.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ian|first=Dunn|date=March 16, 2021|title=Liberty Orchards Company to close June 1 after 101 years in business|url=https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/local/liberty-orchards-company-to-close-june-1-after-101-years-in-business/article_9e6889a0-869c-11eb-aee0-43ba0fbc6e39.html|access-date=2021-03-17|website=The Wenatchee World|language=en}}</ref> The company was sold to [KDV Group](/source/KDV_Group), a Russian food conglomerate, in late May.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ryder-Marks |first=Mia |date=June 24, 2021 |title=Aplets & Cotlets maker sold to Russian company |url=https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/orchards_nuts_vines/aplets-cotlets-maker-sold-to-russian-company/article_925a0f06-d545-11eb-b96b-8fd99feb7cb0.html |work=[Capital Press](/source/Capital_Press) |accessdate=June 24, 2021}}</ref>

== Product line ==
[Aplets & Cotlets](/source/Aplets_%26_Cotlets) are Liberty Orchards' oldest and best known products.  These two types of [confection](/source/confectionery) are mainly sold together in a single box; they are produced from a recipe for [locoum](/source/Turkish_delight) using local [apple](/source/apple)s and [apricot](/source/apricot)s.

Other flavors produced by the company include [pineapple](/source/pineapple) with [macadamia](/source/macadamia) nuts, [strawberry](/source/Garden_strawberry) with [walnut](/source/Walnut)s, [orange](/source/orange_(fruit)) with walnuts, [peach](/source/peach) with [pecan](/source/pecan)s, [blueberry](/source/blueberry) with pecans, and [raspberry](/source/raspberry) with pecans. They also produce sugar-free, nut-free and [chocolate](/source/chocolate)-covered varieties, as well as a number of traditional filled chocolates ([truffle](/source/ganache), [caramel](/source/caramel), and [mint](/source/Mentha), for example). In 2009, the company has introduced a [cherry](/source/cherry)-pecan locoum, as well as four varieties ([mango](/source/mango), strawberry, [watermelon](/source/watermelon) and [papaya](/source/papaya)) dusted with a sweet-sour-spicy coating.

Although many of these confections are marketed under American-style brand-names, they are referred to on product packaging as "Rahat Locoum." Since 2012, the company has also marketed a line of confections with special packaging under the name "Turkish Delights," which includes traditional Middle Eastern flavors such as rose-pistachio, orange-blossom-walnut, mint, and rose-lemon.

== Local community interaction==
Liberty Orchard products are widely distributed via national chain stores and on the internet.

In September 1997 Liberty Orchards was criticized for threatening to move production out of [Cashmere](/source/Cashmere%2C_Washington) unless the town met certain demands that the company hoped would increase their brand profile. These were reported by ''The New York Times'' at the time:

:"They want all road signs and official correspondence by the city to say 'Cashmere, Home of Aplets and Cotlets'. They have asked that one of the two main streets in town be changed to Cotlets Avenue, and the other one be renamed Aplets Avenue. The candy maker also wants the Mayor and Council to sell City Hall to them, build new parking lots and possibly go to the bond market to start a tourism campaign on behalf of the worldwide headquarters of a company that says its story is 'America in a nutshell'."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/06/us/cashmere-journal-old-fashioned-town-sours-on-candymaker-s-new-pitch.html|title=Cashmere Journal; Old-Fashioned Town Sours On Candymaker's New Pitch|date=6 October 1997|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|accessdate=16 January 2016}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.libertyorchards.com Liberty Orchards]

Category:Companies based in Chelan County, Washington
Category:Apple production in Washington (state)

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