The Arena Weddings arm of Arena Flowers has been around for just over a year now, and what a better way to celebrate our first twelve months than to take some examples of our beautiful fresh wedding flowers on the road. The enquiry from Marika, organiser of the Think Pink Wedding Show came late in [...]
Filed under: Customers, Distribution, Floristry, Flowers, General, Good Causes & Charities, Marketing, Operations, Weddings on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Following up from her previous well-received guest post, we asked Pascale, friend of Arena and online marketing guru, if there was another topic she fancied sharing her thoughts on. Sure enough, there was. So here’s a very interesting discussion of how the web and TV and other media are getting increasingly intertwined and changing the [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing, Matters Webby on January 27th, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Just three good reasons to mosey on down to the David Lloyd Health & Fitness Club in Raynes Park, South West London today (Saturday 24 January) where yours truly will be exhibiting the floral fineries of our rapidly growing wedding flowers arm Arena Weddings at the Wear It Pink Wedding Show. On display will be [...]
Filed under: Customers, Floristry, Flowers, General, Good Causes & Charities, Marketing, Weddings on January 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m off on another trip to chilly Holland tomorrow (though it won’t be quite as cold as it has been) for more Valentine’s related floweriness. So I had a lot to finish up this evening and I was last to leave the office. As I went to lock up, something sitting on the corner of [...]
Filed under: General, Valentine's Day on January 21st, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As trailed a little while ago in our New Year’s resolutions post, I’m pleased to announce that we went live with a new website yesterday, in partnership with Cancer Research UK, the UK’s leading cancer research charity. The website, the Cancer Research Flower Shop, allows flower lovers to send all of our flowers and make [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities on January 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Fancy a Twitter with Britney? – The Sun, 10th January 2009 How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives – Daily Mail, 3rd January 2009 Twitter set for its mainstream telly moment on Jonathan Ross’s comeback show – Guardian, 7th January 2009 What started as a trickle [...]
Filed under: Customers, Distribution, Floristry, Marketing, Matters Webby, Setting up on January 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Steve and I were in The Netherlands end of last week, visiting Ronald and catching up on the progress of Arena Bloemen and Arena Blumen, as well making more preparations for Valentine’s Day. It was a mite chilly here in good old Blighty, but we soon learned that our European cousins hadn’t got off any [...]
Filed under: Distribution, General, International Flowers, Operations on January 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
Getting hitched in the chilly months of winter doesn’t mean that you need to compromise on your winter wedding flowers. Although relatively rare compared to summer weddings, winter ceremonies can indeed benefit from all the sparkle and glamour of the party season, with family and friends close to hand for the festive period. Wedding planners [...]
Filed under: Christmas Flowers, Customers, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, Setting up, Weddings on January 9th, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Happy New Year to everyone! We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog of late, what with having to get all our Christmas flower deliveries sorted and having to do some very very last minute Christmas shopping of our own too. We’re back in the saddle now, looking forward to 2009 and will be posting [...]
Filed under: Customers, Ethics & Environment, Finance & Investment, General, Good Causes & Charities, International Flowers, Mega Days, Operations, Valentine's Day on January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
