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 recipient.

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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