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with recent information about Metz and the Flower Market
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Metz gives you healthy plants for healthy profits! |
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We offer you four beautiful and different clean air plants each week in weeks 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 (from 16th June till 13th July 2008).
A green promotion to enhance your plant sales in a quieter period of the year! |
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Extra Service for You! This flyer gives you 10 reasons why you need to convince your corporate customers to invest in plants for their offices to make for a better working environment. Click on the flyer – print out – put your stamp on it – go and convince your corporates! |
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PUT THE NEW DATES FOR THE WIN WIN EVENINGS IN YOUR DIARY RIGHT NOW! |
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Metz are pleased to announce that we have arranged our ever popular Autumn Win Win Evenings throughout the UK and Ireland. The theme of course will be Christmas and our Dutch designers will be giving you the new trends for the coming season. There will be much more information to come, but for now, decide your favoured venue and mark it in your diary as you certainly will not want to miss it!
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May Results
Reasonably satisfied we can look back to the various Mother’s Day’s of May 2008. Canada was the only country which had an amazing Mother’s Day. The French Mother’s Day for the second year in a row was very good. The German market showed a light growth, whereas Spain, Italy, and the US were moderate at best. June is short in terms of working days, but promises to be a good month. Our customers are sitting on a lot of wedding orders, while the party season is shifting into gear. |
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April Results
Both plants and sundries did well this month and Monday 28th April was a special day for Metz with plant income and volumes in the trucks hitting an all time high. Much of this was due to Mother’s Day in Spain -1st Sunday in May - and Worker’s Day – 1st May – in France and Italy. The group realized turnover growth of 18% overall for the month. Looking to May, this should be an excellent month due to the fact that it is Mother’s Day in Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy on 11th May and reaching a peak in Week 21 as we approach French Mother’s Day on 25th May. |
| 25-04-08 WIN WIN EVENING GREENMOUNT CAMPUS, Co.ANTRIM, N.I. | |
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This may have been the last of our Win Win evenings held throughout the U.K. but what a way to finish! The attendance of 109 on the night was fantastic and all were enthralled by the wedding themed show, with top Dutch designer Joke Maat giving everybody so many new ideas and enthusiasm for the coming season.
The evening gave the Irish Metz Team a chance to meet their customers and networking can be so important to the future success of any business. The exclusive Spring Collection of sundries was on display and a 10% discount was available to clients who purchased on the night. Metz would like to thank Greenmount and their staff for their kind co-operation and help during the day for without this the show would not have been such a huge success. There was a raffle of all the design work at the end and a total of Ł290 was collected for the Marie Curie Cancer Appeal in Belfast.
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March Results
March 2008 will be remembered as a very poor month even discounting the absence of turnover from Mother’s Day for the U K and Ireland. For the first time in a long while, the turnover decreased by 2% for the group overall. A poor International Woman’s Day and Easter also contributed to this. The first quarter of 2008 can be summarized by a few trends: healthy growth (+14%), continuing devaluation of the U K pound, strong and profitable growth in North America, rising transport costs, large flight import volumes through the Metz-Fleura Purchasing Joint Venture, slow sales in Southern Europe and good progress in smaller European markets. This unusual mix of ingredients combined, give us a cautiously optimistic feeling regarding the second quarter of 2008. A continuation however of the slide of the pound could make matters worse as this puts pressure on exports to the U K and indirectly affects the pricing structure of the entire group. |
| 16-04-08 OUT ON THE ROAD AGAIN! | |||
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From Bristol to Aberdeen and many towns in between, the Spring Win Win evenings have again been a resounding success.
With three different Dutch designers, one in each area, and a member of the Metz team in Holland attending, the theme of the shows was weddings, and what fabulous creations they made to give our customers new and innovative ideas for the wedding season to come, from bridal bouquets to corsages, it was all there! The Spring range of sundries was also on display at a discounted price and the many who attended the various venues were asking as they left “what dates are the next ones?” Watch this space!
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| 25-01-08 THE SFE’08 WAS A SHOW TO REMEMBER | |||
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From the reaction that we have had from our customers, it seems that everybody thoroughly enjoyed the show and went away with many fresh ideas and bundles of enthusiasm.
We at Metz were proud to say that our stand was better than ever, befitting our 10th anniversary celebrations, and our beautiful displays of flowers, including Valentine roses, plants and sundries held the interest of all visitors to our stand and a brisk trade was done on both days. It was so good to see so many of our customers and to have time over a drink to talk in length, which is often so difficult in your shops on a busy working day. The multi-cultural, 50 minute, wedding teach-ins, Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim in conjunction with the SFE and Metz, were a huge success for the lucky ones who attended and these will continue around the country throughout 2008. So watch this space!
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Metz and Fleura, two of Europe’s biggest wholesalers to independent florists, have announced a new partnership that will enable us to globally source flower and foliage at even more competitive prices for our florist customers.
The partnership, which will be based on a 50/50 shareholding of a new company known as Metz-Fleura, will enable the two companies to link into each others areas of strength and combined buying power. Commenting on the move, Pim van Kleef told Florist & Wholesale Buyer: “Obviously our Dutch sourcing lines are the very best but when it comes to buying globally Metz are incredibly strong in certain countries, like Ecuador while Fleura have superb links in places like San Remo and Costa Rica. By joining forces we will be able to share our buying skill base and ensure that we are able to offer our florists the very best products from throughout the world at the very best prices.” Between the two companies more than 20,000 florist customers in the mid to hi-end bracket will benefit from the improved buying power the partnership will achieve, particularly important at a time when price fluctuations are affecting florists throughout the world. |
| 04-10-07 1st Pole for the New Entrance is Laid! | |
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On Wednesday, October 3rd, at precisely 3:15 in the afternoon, construction began on the new Metz entrance hall at Head Office in Holland, when the 1st pole was officially laid. In the ceremony, J.P. Teelen, the General Director of FloraHolland, together with the Directors of Metz, did the honours.
Metz strongly believes in it's partnership with the auction FloraHolland and respective growers. This important investment in the Elsen Building will only serve to emphasize this. The new entrance should be completed by June 2008.
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04-06-07
 Metz France and Peters & Groenveld join forces
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The board of directors of Metz France and Peters & Groenveld have joined forces to enable the two companies to offer a more comprehensive service to their respective customers.
Under the name of Metz & Peters, this combination will serve 1500 florists in France, a full national network, which will be supported by the marketing program Scala Verde.
The company sales, purchasing, administration and transport departments will in 2007 be integrated within the Metz Group which supplies direct to 3,500 florists in Europe and North America with approximately 300 employees.
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30-01-07
Metz’ New Frost Packing
As many of you know out of experience, cold can be disastrous to the quality of fresh flowers and plants. Especially to exotics and anthuriums which suffer the most during winter time. We are currently protecting exotics and anthuriums by using polystyrene in the boxes, which is not ideal and can cause breakages or bruising to the flowers. On account of Metz striving for perfection, we have searched for a new way of frost packing. After many tests and trials we found the perfect way to protect sensitive flowers from the weather. Anthuriums will from now on be packed in flow packs similar to the method used on cut hydrangeas. The innovative foil will provide a better insulation, which keeps the warmth within the box. This way we can deliver you the exotics and others without any cold damage throughout the winter! With the new flow pack there is less polystyrene and other protective material needed, which results directly in a cost decrease and a general improvement for the environment. With the automised packing we can achieve more efficiency and also prevent breakages caused by human handling. So whenever the cold kicks in, watch out for the frost packing!
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