Medford

Harry & David's stores and catalogs will be carrying a new wine label: The company's own. The Medford-based gourmet foods company, which has been selling gift baskets filled with locally produced fruit and snacks since 1934, has hired winemaker Linda...

After feeble holiday sales in 2010 helped put Harry & David on the road to bankruptcy last year, the Medford-based direct marketer has announced more bullish figures from a somewhat busier season of selling fruit baskets and Moose Munch candy. The company reported an unaudited net income figure of $34.7 million for the 13-week period ended Dec. 31. That compares with the $13.8 million Harry & David Holdings Inc., logged through the key holiday shopping season of 2010. Harry & David's sales, a vast majority of which come through its catalog and website, declined 6.3 percent to about $245