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Flowers For Kids Presentation to JFMA

Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:44 PM by rosemontfloral
After leaving LatinFlor we went on to the Dann Carlton hotel in Quito to meet with a group of people from Japan Floral Marketing Association . JFMA is a collaboration of industry professionals from all segments, the mission of JFMA is to boost floral Read More...
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Visit to LatinFlor

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:54 PM by rosemontfloral
After my visit to Valleflor on Tuesday I also visited LatinFlor. We arrived at the start of lunch and just in time to see a football (soccer) game underway. LatinFlor has five football teams and has championship games. The LatinFlor staff was kind enough Read More...
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Visit to Valleflor

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:30 AM by rosemontfloral
Benito Jaramillo, an owner at Valleflor, kindly let me visit his farm on Tuesday. I was provided a private tour, my guides were Luis (Manager of Operations) shown on the left and Juan Pablo (Sales Executive) shown on the right. Valleflor grows many kinds Read More...
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Flowers For Kids Training and a Book Launch

Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 9:33 PM by rosemontfloral
I arrived in Quito, Ecuador on Sunday evening and was greeted by Ramiro and Salome, the founder of Flowers For Kids and his lovely wife. Monday marked the first day of training for the Flowers For Kids program, I'm very excited to be able to return and Read More...
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Society of American Florists (SAF) Convention

Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:56 AM by rosemontfloral
The most beautiful sunrises greeted me my first morning at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. I've met new friends, caught up with old friends and learned much about the new varieties from around the world at the SAF Outstanding Varieties competition Read More...
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Alligator Alley

Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 7:21 PM by rosemontfloral
Society of American Florists fall meetings and convention kicks off this week at The Breakers in Palm Beach, FL. Erlene arrived in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday evening in advance of the festivities to stay with friends for a day and a half. We all went to Read More...
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Rosemont Floral Selected as Finalist for Two Indie Biz Awards

Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 4:14 AM by rosemontfloral
Rosemont Floral has been selected as a finalist in two categories for first annual Indie Biz Awards for Portland Buy Local. The awards are Beacon of My Neighborhood - Rosemont/North Deering category and the Resurgam Community Impact category for the Voting Read More...
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Exciting Changes!

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 11:12 PM by rosemontfloral
Monday, February 25th promises to be a very exciting day at Rosemont Floral ! We have joined the FTD Florist network and will be installing a new Point of Sale system, the FTD Mercury. Mercury offers a broader range of features than our current system. Read More...
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Heartfelt Thanks to Seagroatt Wholesale and Eufloria Flowers

Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:28 PM by rosemontfloral
Recently we attended an education program at one of our distributors, Seagroatt Wholesale in Cromwell, CT with the fabulous J Schwanke one of J's sponsors, Eufloria Flowers . We secretly conspired with J who was gracious enough to allow us a few minutes Read More...
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Portland Buy Local Poster Series and Member Meeting

Posted Saturday, October 13, 2007 6:14 PM by rosemontfloral
Portland Buy Local has recently started a new poster series.The posters feature photographs of Portland business owners taken by local photographer Nathan Eldridge with the tag line, "Find Your Independents!" They are designed to call attention to the Read More...
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Corsage Making for the CURE Breast Cancer for ME Event

Posted Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:17 PM by rosemontfloral
Today we hosted volunteers to make corsages for the Breast Cancer Survivors attending the CURE Breast Cancer for ME Event being held at Marriott Sable Oaks on October 1, 2007. Our rose grower, Eufloria Flowers, donated beautiful pink roses to us to create Read More...
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Our First Shipment of Cell Phones to the Recycler

Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 6:41 PM by rosemontfloral
Today marks our first shipment of 50 cell phones going out to the recycler, this represents about $250 in prepaid calling cards for our troops. Soon we will have a flyer you can download and post at work to let everyone else know. Or you can pass this Read More...
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Cell Phones for Soldiers

Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:26 PM by rosemontfloral
We are pleased to announce that we have become a drop off center for the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. You can now bring your old cell phone and accessories into our store where they are collected and forwarded to a recycler. Customers bringing cell Read More...
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Money Really Does Grow on Trees!

Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:18 AM by rosemontfloral
Well, thanks to the hard work of our staff it does! We were contacted a little over a week ago to create something special for a credit union's 50th Anniversary Gala for built around a money tree. A design was selected and the process of procuring large Read More...
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Pink Tulip Project

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:07 PM by rosemontfloral
Cure breast cancer one pink tulip at a time! For each dollar donated, one pink tulip will be planted in a public garden for all to enjoy! The Pink Tulip Project benefits the Maine Cancer Foundation's Women's Cancer Fund. This fall pink tulips will be Read More...
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