Celebrating our 135th Anniversary!

The Kennicott Brothers Employee Newsletter

October 14th, 2016

Employee Owned…It makes a difference!

Kaleidoscope Hurricane Matthew Hits Florida Greens Growers

http://www.ferndamage.com/

The central Florida area where most of our Florida greens are grown was devastated by Hurricane Matthew last weekend. Thankfully none of the growers or their families were injured to our knowledge.

However there was extensive damage to their property and crops. Losses of current crops ranged up to 75%. When greens in the current pipeline run out, there will be an acute shortage of leather leaf fern and most other Florida greens for the next few months, especially at Valentine’s Day. We anticipate very substantial increases in prices as the market forces of supply

and demand come into play.

Projections from many growers are that they will not be able to return to normal production until Mother’s Day or after. ————————————————————

Click in on the link above to see the damage and recovery of many of the major fern farms in Volusia County and the surrounding areas including: Albin Hagstrom & Son, Alpha Fern Company, Forest Grove Ferneries, Fern Trust, Ronald

Jones Ferneries, and WM. F. Puckett Ferneries.

The local farm community in every city and state are working hard to provide quality products to consumers throughout the United States and around the world. In particu-lar, their local Volusia fern farms produce a majority of the fern and floral greenery

used throughout the florist industry in the US and in major foreign countries. The local farms are an engine of growth and opportunity for not only their local community but

thousands of communities!

Here are some pictures from the local Farms and the

damage caused by Hurricane Mattew.

Damage at Albin Hagstrom & Son

Damage at Alpha Fern Company

Damage Wayne Bennett Ferneries, LLC

...at Your Place? Is there any news at your branch that you would like to share? Any Birth-days? Anniversaries? Family Reun-

ions? Send your news to Maria Betancourt in corporate at:

maria@kennicott.com

Kennicott Apparel

Autumn is here, time to freshen-up your wardrobe with some great Kennicott Apparel, perfect for

the upcoming months! Check out link below, follow up by selecting

Showroom in the upper right corner!

One Of The Most Beautiful Flowers

Gazania is native to South Afr ica where it is also known as ‘treasure

flower’. The best thing about this flow-er is that it is available in a variety

strange pattern as well as bright and brilliant colors such as shades of pink, dark red, yellow and orange. The pet-als of this wonderful flower come in

single colors as well as in graded shades. This hardy beauty with its dai-sy like flowers certainly deserves a top spot in the list of most beautiful flow-

ers in the world!

http://www.emb1925.com/showrooms_001.htm

Petal It Forward Happens Next Wednesday!

Cubs fans receiving flowers from Dan Andrews during last year's "Petal It Forward day”

Atlanta, Minneapolis, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Chicago & Waukegan (IL) are among many U.S. cities where area florists will be brightening the days of random passersby on October 19. It’s all par t of the nationwide ‘Petal it

Forward’ program, in partnership with the Society of American Florists (SAF) of which Kennicott Brothers is a member. Each Petal It Forward team (driven

primarily by our florist customers) is not only spreading happiness to lucky peo-ple who receive the flowers, but arming these recipients with the tools they need to Petal it Forward and spread happiness to others: An extra flower bouquet to share with a loved one, coworker or even a stranger. Recipients are asked to

spread the happiness by gifting their extra bouquet, then sharing selfies on so-cial media tagging #petalitforward.

We are looking forward to another great event this year, and thank our partici-pating customers: K Mike Whittle Unique Floral Designs (Atlanta), St. Cloud

Floral & Gifts (Twin Cities), Lindskoog Florist (Twin Cities), CityScents Floral & Home (Chicago), Ashland Addison Florist (Chicago), The Posh Posie Petaler (Waukegan), Zionsville Flower Company (Indianapolis), Banner Flower House

(Indianapolis), and Kennedy’s Flowers & Gifts (Grand Rapids).

Job Posting We are currently hiring for the

following positions:

Fresh Salesperson - Atlanta Plant Dept. Mgr. Trainee– Chicago

Accounts Payable Supervisor –Chicago Supply Sales Person- Elk Grove Fresh Sales Trainee - Warren

Please feel free to send your resume or the resume of someone you recommend to Tenelle Barnes

( Human Resources ) via email at tenelle@kennicott.com or by fax to

312-492-8202 or via mail to:

Tenelle Barnes Kennicott Brothers Company

1638 W Hubbard St. Chicago IL 60622

ARNOLD’S

Birthday Celebrations: OCTOBER 14th Lisa Dinkel, Indianapolis 15th Gary Gardiner, Chicago 16th Jeanne Hartley, Indianapolis 16th Natasha Vanek, Alsip 17th Ward Hanson, Detroit 18th Thomas Figueroa, Flint 18th Nancy Lichon, Detroit 19th Paul Hebert, Atlanta 19th Dana Uza, Alsip 20th Dustin Bice, Dayton 21st Alberto Vazquez, Chicago 23rd Talisa McHugh, South Bend 23rd Susan Wood, Milwaukee 23rd Lauren Bentley, Warren 23rd Katelyn Nolan, Grandville 23rd Gordon Saul, Chicago 23rd Rony Garcia, Atlanta

The Birth of a Nation.

This is a testimony to the overtly harsh and demeaning cruelty of slavery during the early 19th century. It's not surprising that it led to something like the Nat Turner

Rebellion. I give it three and three quarter roses.

~Arnold.

Kennicott Is Growing! “Help us welcome new members to our team

in the following locations… CLEVELAND: Jacob A. Palmer, October 7th DETROIT: Bertha Alicia Cordillo, October 3rd Christian Reyes. October 8th Martha Reyes, October 3rd ELK GROVE: Angel Jimenez, October 5th

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