Leading Cookie Gift Basket Company, Blooming Cookies, is Going Green!
Atlanta, Georgia Cookie Company offers New Eco-Friendly Options for Gift Giving

Atlanta, Georgia, June 24, 2008: Atlanta, Georgia based Gift Basket Company, Blooming Cookies (Bloomingcookies.com), is leading the Gifting Industry in offering eco-friendly products and adopting sustainable practices. All of Blooming Cookies' unique Cookie Bouquets are built around all-natural cookies and brownies packaged in biodegradable wrappers. Environmentally-conscious customers can now send gifts from the new "Green Gifts"line offered by Blooming Cookies.

The new, green Blooming Cookies Eco-Luxe Rocking Horse features the bestselling baby gift, a 16-inch tall hand painted Rocking Horse, now filled with eco-friendly gifts.Included in the keepsake Rocking Horse is signature all-natural Blooming Cookies and Brownies, a Ginkgo Tree-to-Be kit, which includes everything needed to grow a gingko tree to commemorate the baby's birth. Also inside are organic Aura Cacia baby care products: Calming Milk and Oat Bath, 2-in-1 Calming Baby Wash and Shampoo, and Daily Diaper Cream. A polka-dotted natural canvas saddle on the Rocking Horse is personalized with the baby's name, birthdate, and height and weight information.

Another new Blooming Cookies Green Gift, perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, and business gifts, is the Eco Green Gift Tray, which features 9 to 12 all-natural Blooming Cookies and Brownies  artfully presented in a striped tray made from recycled paper and fibers. The unique tray snaps together, and may be reused as a storage tray or unsnapped and used as a placemat.

Additionally, Blooming Cookies has focused on using eco-friendly business practices and products. Many of the keepsake containers are manufactured with recycled materials. Blooming Cookies' shipping boxes made of recycled pulp, printed with water-based inks. Shrink film and tissue is made of 60% post-industrial waste, and recyclable. The Styrofoam is biodegradable. Ann King, President and CEO of Blooming Cookies, says,"We will continue to make progressive-minded steps to make major improvements in our environmental practices and the gifts we offer."
For additional information on Blooming Cookies new Green Gifts and earth-friendly business initiatives, contact Brooke Serson at 800-435-6877, email to bserson@bloomingcookies.com, or visit www.bloomingcookies.com. High-resolution digital photos of Green Gifts are available.

ABOUT BLOOMING COOKIES – Blooming Cookies was founded in 1984 by Ann King, a young entrepreneur with the concept of spreading goodwill with her original cookie bouquets.  Blooming Cookies has grown tremendously over 20 years in size, product lines and scope.   Blooming Cookies started the gift basket division for 1-800-Flowers, and has done product design and development for FTD.com. In addition to Green Gifts, Blooming Cookies also offers cookie-centric gifts for celebrating all of life’s milestones; Business gifts; and Paws Fifth Avenue Pet + People gifts with cookies for humans, cats and dogs.

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