Drugs, stress and fire. They all share just one unlikely thing in common, flowers. Indeed, from bud to bouquet, a flower’s life is not quite as innocent as one would think… image source | image source 1) From The Netherlands with drugs On occasion, the Dutch flower industry has been utilised by criminals as a [...]
Filed under: General, International Flowers on October 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Flowers have always been considered a romantic gift for a loved one, as a pleasure for the eyes and the nose, they are a temporary luxury. Their frail beauty is a perfect combination of tragedy and romance, they are decadent in their lavish glory and impermanence, lasting only a few days before they wither and [...]
Filed under: Flowers, General, Guest Posts, International Flowers on July 25th, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Will has been busy as a regular contributor to econsultancy’s blog as well as others, so we thought we’d share some of his posts here too. Having a growing online business can be filled with thousands of individual decisions, each of which in sum can lead to the shape of your business. We thought we’d [...]
Filed under: Big Mistakes, General, International Flowers, Marketing, Setting up, Start up on July 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
We’ve been a little quiet on the blog front this past few weeks – call it a little blog break while we recovered from the excitement of serving sumptuous fresh flowers to the nation’s romantics on Valentine’s Day, then just a few weeks later, creating the perfect Mother’s Day bouquet arrangements for mums, grandmas and [...]
Filed under: General, International Flowers, Marketing, Mega Days, Mother's Day on April 23rd, 2009 | 3 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 »
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 »
Some businesses like to wind-down or even close-down over the summer, but not us workaholics at Arena Flowers! Recently, Will, Steve and Elsa headed to what has now become our second home at Noordwijkerhout, on the west coast of the Netherlands for an extended stay to oversee some of the operational stuff going on for [...]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, General, International Flowers, Operations, Weddings on August 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Sam mentioned a new arrival for his family last week, and this week it’s the turn of the Arena family to welcome its own new member: our Dutch language site, ArenaBloemen.nl! Our team spends a huge amount of time and effort securing deals direct with the best growers so that we can ensure great prices, [...]
Filed under: Distribution, Floristry, International Flowers, Marketing, Matters Webby, Operations, Setting up, Start up on June 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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