Bellingham Florist
Bellingham has
several excellent florists. Through them you can order flowers and have
them delivered anywhere in Bellingham and the world. Most Bellingham
Florists use one of the largest florist networks FTD or Teleflora.
Some of the more popular
Bellingham Florists are Johnson's
Flower Shop, Belle Flora Inc and M & M Floral & Gifts.
FTD was founded as a retailers'
cooperative to help customers send flowers remotely on the same
day by using florists in the FTD network who are near the intended
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The Mercury Network, the electronic
network used by FTD, processes about 15 million flower orders
annually, through about 50,000 FTD affiliates in 154 countries, of which
about 20,000 are in the United States and Canada.
Fiscal year 2006 revenues grew 6.2% to
$465.1 million, compared with revenues of $437.8 million for fiscal
2005. This revenue growth was driven by an 11.6% increase in revenue in
the Consumer Segment. On July 31,
2006, FTD, Inc. announced its acquisition of Interflora Holdings
Limited, a UK based leading provider of floral-related products
and services to consumers and retail floral locations in the UK.
Teleflora is a floral wire
service company brokering orders to local florists (such as
Bellingham Florists) for delivery and offering florist to
florist clearinghouse services. In the past decade, Teleflora has
merged with several other florist wire services, including Redbook
Floral Services in 1997 and AFS (American Floral Services) in 2001
Teleflora's major competitors are FTD (Florist Transworld Delivery) and
1-800-Flowers. Teleflora serves as a clearing house for florist
shops all over the world. The Teleflora-owned network that links florist
shops together is called the Dove network. Teleflora has approximately
25,000 member florists throughout the world.
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