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 »
Those of you subscribed to our free flowery newsletters will have seen this morning that Arena is supporting the annual Poppy Appeal. We’re donating 10% of the order value for all orders which include Braveheart, The One or 20 Luxury Red Roses between now and Friday to the Appeal. We believe this is a very [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, General, Good Causes & Charities on November 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Regular ‘Flowers …uncut’ readers will be aware of the good causes that ArenaFlowers.com occasionally works with by providing assistance and beautiful blooms and flower arrangements. So when Help for Heroes, a new charity which aims to help wounded Servicemen and Women, contacted us, we were more than happy to oblige (and we’ve had a fun [...]
Filed under: Customers, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, General, Good Causes & Charities, Operations on July 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here at Arena Flowers we get a lot of special orders both large and small – sometimes for a particular birthday where the number of flowers is important or sometimes for the re-creation of a wedding bouquet for an anniversary. We also receive requests for flower stems to be distributed at special events, such as [...]
Filed under: Customers, Distribution, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Operations, Setting up on June 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There have been three winners with Arena Flowers this month, in various ways. So, in ascending order of importance, we have: 1. £50 Bouquet Newsletter Winner Every time we send our main newsletter (once a month), someone wins a free order of value up to £50. This month’s lucky winner was Mark S from Worcestershire. [...]
Filed under: Customers, Ethics & Environment, General, Good Causes & Charities on April 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
This year, we elected to make a donation to the British Heart Foundation’s Valentine’s Campaign for every one of our Tulips Bouquets and our Heart of Chocolates products sold for Valentine’s Day. We’re happy to report that in this way we raised several hundred pounds for the BHF (exact figure and cheque to the BHF [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Flowers, General, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Valentine's Day on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re delighted to say that we’re supporting the British Heart Foundation’s Valentine’s Appeal this year. In the UK 2.6 million men and women live with coronary heart disease and last year, the BHF Heart Nurses provided 50,000 heart patients with vital support to cope with the trauma and pain of heart disease. The aim of [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Valentine's Day on January 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today was a fun day at Flowers HQ. One of those days when I reflect how happy I am that our team took the risk and ventured away from our easy(ish) jobs into the uncharted (and scarier) waters of Arena, flowers and building a business for flower lovers. Hooray! I’ve been out of the office [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Flowers, General, Good Causes & Charities, Marketing, Matters Webby on October 25th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
