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Vitamix Featured in World’s Greatest! Television Show

OLMSTED FALLS, OH – January 5, 2009 –Vitamix Corporation, the leading manufacturer of high-quality blending equipment, today announces it will be featured in Crown Point Productions’ World’s Greatest! series episode 119 airing January 14, 19, and 20th on the ION network. Check local listing for air times.

World’s Greatest! is a thirty-minute television show dedicated to highlighting the world’s greatest companies, products, places, and people. Crown Point Productions sent a film crew to Vitamix world headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, where behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with key Vitamix executives for the upcoming profile piece was shot.

“We are looking forward to being featured in this upcoming series,” says Jodi Berg, executive vice president of Vitamix. “As a fourth generation, family-owned, American company with 85 years of dedication to cutting-edge, quality products, we have a unique perspective to share with viewers.”

Gordon Freeman, executive producer of the show, adds, “Vitamix is exactly the type of company that we like to feature on World’s Greatest! They’re an innovative company with plenty to offer, and they have a great story to tell.”

For more information please visit www.vitamix.com or www.worldsgreatesttv.com.

About Vitamix Corporation

Based in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, family-owned and operated Vitamix Corporation was founded in 1921 by William G. “Papa” Barnard, an early promoter of the whole foods lifestyle and a direct marketing pioneer. Since introducing the first Vitamix blender in 1937, Vitamix has set the standard for high performance blenders. Vitamix blending equipment is used in leading smoothie bars, coffee houses and restaurants, and is universally praised by professional chefs and consumers alike for both durability and performance. Vitamix manufacturing operations are located at the corporate headquarters in Ohio; the company’s products are sold in nearly 80 countries. For more information, please visit www.vitamix.com or call (800) 848-2649. Vitamix – A Better Life.