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GAEA Award Winning, Environmentally-Friendly Greek Olive Oils Take a Starring Role at the 81st Academy Awards Sunday February 22, 2009 in 10th Annual 'Children Uniting Nations' Event

Posted on: Friday, 20 February 2009, 18:39 CST

Extra Virgin Olive Oils from GAEA Products S.A. Featured in the WOW! Creations Oscar Lifestyle Gifting Lounge at Children Uniting Nations 10th Annual Award Celebration at Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- GAEA Products S.A., a leading producer of authentic Greek Mediterranean food products including a full line of award winning GAEA Extra Virgin Olive Oils, is pleased to announce its participation in the 10th Annual Award Celebration of non-profit 'Children Uniting Nations' to be held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, Sunday, February 22, 2009. As attendees arrive at the star-studded event to be held concurrently with the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, bottles of environmentally-friendly GAEA Extra Virgin Olive Oils will be in the WOW! Creations Oscar Lifestyle Lounge and in the celebrity gift bags.

"We're extremely proud to be included in the company of the other corporate supporters of the Children Uniting Nations organization at this exciting event," commented Aris Kefalogiannis, CEO of Athens-based GAEA Products S.A. "In addition to helping publicizing the worthwhile mentoring programs of CUN for at-risk and foster youth here in Los Angeles and through the nation, it provides GAEA with a wonderful opportunity to introduce U.S. consumers the meze-Greek Mediterranean lifestyle, cultural and culinary experience."

Founded in 1995 with the mission to offer consumers and professional cooks with the finest ingredients based on classic recipes of Mediterranean Greek cuisine, GAEA produces environmentally-sensitive extra virgin olive oil from family growers using traditional farming and harvesting methods and then cold pressing the fruit within 24 hours from harvest at its own Agrinion factory. In just the past decade GAEA's products have garnered dozens of international awards for excellence in Italy, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Greece, the UK and the United States.

Pioneered in Los Angeles by a group of concerned citizens, CUN's central mentoring program known as the Mentoring Partnership for Los Angeles Youth (mPLAY) has become the model program for the rest of the country helping realize its goal of reaching as many children as possible to fulfill their dreams and create loving, tolerant, and capable world citizens.

The GAEA Commitment to the Environment

Gaea is leading the way in the international olive oil industry with a "green rev-oil-ution" to reduce the environmental impact of their operations, from cultivation to the shelves of the supermarket. To find out more about the GAEA commitment to preserving the Earth's resources with their non-depletion policy on wild products, recycling policies and integrated crop management and organic farming, visit www.myclimate.org.

About Children Uniting Nations

Children Uniting Nations (CUN) is a proactive organization created to bring attention to the plight of at-risk and foster youth. The goal is to reach as many children in out-of-home care by offering role-model support, guidance, a sense of community and promote the importance of an education. Pioneered in Los Angeles, CUN's central mentoring program known as the Mentoring Partnership for Los Angeles Youth (mPLAY) has become the model program for the rest of the country. For further information, visit www.childrenunitingnations.org or send email to info@childrenunitingnations.org.

About GAEA Products S.A.

Based in the lush Agrinion growing region of sunny Greece, GAEA Products S.A. is an emerging leader in the Greek specialty food products category, providing consumers and chefs with quality traditional, authentic and innovative olive oils, tapenades, salad dressings, sauces, peppers and herbs. Using only all natural ingredients grown naturally in the fertile earth of Greece, the GAEA range of products offers all the rich flavors and traditional ingredients essential to create the finest Greek Mediterranean cuisine and to live the "meze" cultural culinary experience.

About the name: "Gaea" derives from the ancient Greek word meaning "mother earth" and is a symbol of fertility and the goodness of earth and figures prominently in the history of creation in Greek mythology.

For further information about GAEA Olive Oil and their full range of products, visit www.gaea.gr. For media related inquiries, please contact Alissa Sears of Christie Communications at (805) 969-3744 or via email at alissa@christiecomm.com.

Alissa Sears Aris Kefalogiannis Christie Communications CEO Tel: 805-969-3744 GAEA Products S.A. E-mail: alissa@christiecomm.com Tel: +30 210 9330595 ext 35 Email: info@gaea.gr Web www.gaea.gr

SOURCE GAEA Products S.A.

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