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<text id=91TT0349>
<title>
Feb. 18, 1991: Business Notes:Entrepreneurs
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 57
Business Notes
ENTREPRENEURS
Profits in Bloom
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<p> Being stationed in the gulf doesn't mean you can't send
Valentine's Day flowers back home. Several hundred servicemen
have placed orders with Calyx & Corolla, an innovative
mail-order flower company in San Francisco. The troops get a
20% Valentine's discount.
</p>
<p> Under founder and president Ruth Owades, the three-year-old
company has reached sales of $10 million. By contracting
directly with 25 domestic and four foreign growers and teaming
up with Federal Express, Owades cuts out wholesalers and
retailers, guaranteeing that flowers or plants can be delivered
within 48 hours and trimming costs as much as 15%. Customers
of Calyx & Corolla--the name refers to the outer and inner
parts of a flower--receive six catalogs a year, offering
arrangements ranging from $25 (nine Enchantment Lilies) to $450
(a year's worth of orchids).
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</body></article>
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