packaged food manufacture founded cashmere washington 1918 headquarters cashmere washington united states products candy confections fruit products revenue 8 100 000 1 number of employees 80 website www.libertyorchards.com aplets & cotlets liberty orchards is a packaged food products company located in cashmere washington . founded originally as an apple farm in 1918 by armenian business partners 2 armen tertsagian and mark balaban 3 the company moved into canning and then confectionery during the 1930s and 1940s . 4 contents 1 product line 2 local community interaction 3 notes 4 external links product line edit aplets & cotlets are liberty orchards oldest and best known products . these two types of confection are mainly sold together in a single box ; they are produced from a recipe for locoum using local apples and apricots . other flavors produced by the company include pineapple with macadamia nuts strawberry with walnuts orange with walnuts peach with pecans blueberry with pecans and raspberry with pecans . they also produce sugar free nut free and chocolate covered varieties as well as a number of traditional filled chocolates truffle caramel and mint for example . in 2009 the company has introduced a cherry pecan locoum as well as four varieties mango strawberry watermelon and 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 edit liberty orchard products are widely distributed via national chain stores and on the internet . in september 1997 liberty orchards drew criticism for threatening to move production out of cashmere 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 . 5 notes edit staff . liberty orchards company inc. . dun & bradstreet credibility corp. retrieved 17 may 2013 . http www.historylink.org index.cfm displaypage output.cfm & file id 7624 aplets & cotlets fruit delights orchard bars fruit & nut candies . liberty orchards . retrieved 16 january 2016 . liberty orchards aplets & cotlets aplets & cotlets are born ... cashmere journal ; old fashioned town sours on candymaker s new pitch . the new york times . 6 october 1997 . retrieved 16 january 2016 . external links edit liberty orchards retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title liberty orchards & oldid 724071169 categories companies based in washington state navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 6 june 2016 at 23 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view