For more than 20 years of service beautifying the Big Apple’s hotels, collaborating with various New York marketing groups, and sponsoring charitable events, Nic Faitos, senior partner of Starbright Floral Design, received Lifetime Achievement honors at the Hotel Experience Awards on Monday, January 29, at the iconic Cipriani Wall Street. “Am I even old enough […]
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Virtually every florist knows his or her craft helps people express emotions and commemorates life’s salient moments. However, it’s easy to forget that fact—that honor—when crunch time hits and the work piles up. In the coming days, you’ll no doubt feel the mounting pressure of Valentine’s Day. If you feel your passion start to slip,
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Oregon Flowers, Inc. has released a mobile application for Apple and Android devices to give customers an up-to-date report of what’s available to buy.
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Is improving your business a resolution for 2018? One way to do that is to stand on the shoulders of giants. Several industry associations and companies have planned stellar educational programs, featuring some of the brightest minds in the biz, to give you a leg up. Here are a few programs to put on your
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The hunt is over. For seven years, Mayesh Wholesale Florist has hosted a contest to choose a designer to represent the brand, leading workshops and instructional videos, introducing retail florists across the country to new ways to use Mayesh products. This year’s winner is Kaylee Young. She took a few minutes recently to catch up
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Another year has flown by and your busiest day is shockingly near.
To whip florists into shape, sales and customer service expert Tim Huckabee is hosting a boot camp webinar, as he has for many years. This time, however, there’s a twist.
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Currently, the Thomas fire raging through Southern California has not reached Florabundance. Therefore, the wholesale company in Carpinteria intends to proceed with its sixth annual Inspiration Design Days program next month.
The discounted room rate expires on Monday, so interested attendees should act quickly.
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J Schwanke, AAF, AIFD, PFCI, has had a pretty covetable start to the holiday season. For the past week, the founder of uBloom.com has been in Roland, Arkansas, decorating Moss Mountain Farm and talking all things floral with the property’s owner, television personality P. Allen Smith. Schwanke filled Florist 2.0 in on his time in
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Mere weeks before he intended to reopen his shop, Victoria’s Flowers, in Didsbury, Alberta, Gordon Fulton, AIFD, CAFA, died on November 13 at age 55.
When news broke of his passing, florists from far and wide expressed sorrow for a man who possessed a sharp eye for design, unbridled enthusiasm, and an insatiable desire to help his friends.
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On St. Simon’s Island, a sleepy barrier island off the coast of Southwest Georgia, sits a 600-acre estate with a stately plantation and cottages. The former home of philanthropist Nancy Reynolds (heiress of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company) has hosted political heavyweights including President Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev—but not many non-celebrities. “It is super
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The Michigan Floral Foundation added a familiar name to its Hall of Fame last month. Dwight Larimer, AAF, PFCI, president of Design Master Color Tool, became the 11th individual to receive the honor during a ceremony Thursday, October 24, at the University Club of Michigan State in East Lansing.
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Fans of Virginia florist Holly Heider Chapple, rejoice! There’s a new tool entering the market that will help you achieve her signature lush, garden-like style.
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