Petals Network
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Petals Network is a floral wire service
company
which distributes consumer flower orders to local florists for delivery. Petals offers both a florist-to-florist clearinghouse service and a customer to florist service through its network of independent local florists.
Unusually for floral relay service, Petals runs its own networks of florists in several countries; Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It also uses the services of other local floral relay services to operate in 70 other countries around the world. Petals is based in Armidale, New South Wales
Australia
. By running 3 shifts, it can operate in the major time zones around the world from its country-town location.
Petals has won a number of business awards including Australian National Small Business of the Year and was 4 years in the Top 100 Fastest Growing Businesses in Australia list. More information on awards and other press can be found at About Petals as well as the Hansard of the NSW Government and the Australian Business Chamber President's Prize for Best Business
Petals also manages a directory of local florists in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK and New Zealand, and a network of Australian gift suppliers Grumleys Gifts with a range of non-floral gifts.
Staff of Petals volunteer their time and financial support for students at local schools and the University of New England
where Petals Founder Scott Williams is Deputy Chancellor.
Floral wire service
A floral wire service, also known as a flower relay service is a company established primarily to facilitate order exchange and fulfillment between local florists and/or third-party sales agents of floral products...
company
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
which distributes consumer flower orders to local florists for delivery. Petals offers both a florist-to-florist clearinghouse service and a customer to florist service through its network of independent local florists.
Unusually for floral relay service, Petals runs its own networks of florists in several countries; Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It also uses the services of other local floral relay services to operate in 70 other countries around the world. Petals is based in Armidale, New South Wales
Armidale, New South Wales
Armidale is a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. Armidale Dumaresq Shire had a population of 19,485 people according to the 2006 census. It is the administrative centre for the Northern Tablelands region...
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. By running 3 shifts, it can operate in the major time zones around the world from its country-town location.
Petals has won a number of business awards including Australian National Small Business of the Year and was 4 years in the Top 100 Fastest Growing Businesses in Australia list. More information on awards and other press can be found at About Petals as well as the Hansard of the NSW Government and the Australian Business Chamber President's Prize for Best Business
Petals also manages a directory of local florists in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK and New Zealand, and a network of Australian gift suppliers Grumleys Gifts with a range of non-floral gifts.
Staff of Petals volunteer their time and financial support for students at local schools and the University of New England
University of New England (Australia)
The University of New England is an Australian public university with approximately 18,000 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern New South Wales....
where Petals Founder Scott Williams is Deputy Chancellor.
External links and further readings
- PetalsNetwork.com Petals US website
- PetalsNetwork.co.uk Petals UK website
- PetalsNetwork.co.nz Petals NZ website
- Petals.com.au Petals Australia website
- Petals Directory.com Petals Directory of local florists in 5 countries
- Grumleys.com.au Grumleys Network of gift suppliers who deliver throughout Australia