Last night, after an enthusiastic exchange of final amends we launched ‘Flowers & Fun’ the Arena Flowers Facebook application. As with all things Arena, Flowers & Fun had always been there in our ‘to do’ list but it wasn’t until last week that Will’s frantic text messages became too much to ignore – the application [...]
Filed under: Flowers, General, Marketing, Matters Webby on July 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We’ve been trying to work out which of these two “wonders of the natural world” is the most bizarre and/or disgusting. We can’t decide, so over to you! Let us know what you think in the comments section. 1. The Raffelsia, the world’s largest flower: Whoever has been lucky and seen the humungous flower knows [...]
Filed under: Flowers, General on July 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We just got our copy of the Flower & Plants Association‘s annual report through. The F&PA is the UK’s industry body, tasked with supporting and promoting the UK flower and indoor plants industry. There are a couple of interesting statistics in there: £2.2bn of flowers and £509m of plants were sold in 2006; and That [...]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers on June 9th, 2007 | No Comments »
Our biggest personal order to date! If anyone wants to make a really romantic gesture they will have to go a very long way to beat this one. Our customer (we’ll call him Mr D) phoned wanting to make a dramatic gesture for a girl who was leaving the UK to travel. What started as [...]
Filed under: Customers, Flowers on June 1st, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Whilst a little retiring compared to the other girls in the customer service team, Meriem is good on the phones and always makes it known when she is on to a good call (she sits behind me). Recently, in her own unique way (jumping up and down and waving as if to guide a Boeing [...]
Filed under: Flowers, Fraud, General on May 25th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
