News Release by Bloom Japan Network

Our activity for supporting Japanese Gentian grower's association on newspaper

2011-09-07T18:01:00.002+09:00

We Bloom Japan Network is also supporting Japanese growers which is eager to expand its market to overseas. And our information providing support for Japanese biggest Gentian flower grower's association using SNS services have reported on Japanese newspaper. (On the 'Kakiengei Shinbun' News paper, issued on 1st September 2011)

Use Japanese flowers, Support Japanese growers!

2011-04-22T22:23:00.001+09:00

Our Japanese flower show in Hong Kong & New York

2011-02-19T18:58:00.000+09:00

On December 2010 & January 2011, we hold Japanese Flower Show in Hong Kong and New York.
These event were so wonderful, many floral buyers & designers have joined our events.

Now we are aggressively promoting Japanese flowers in overseas countries and Japanese flowers are now expanding its market to USA, Asia, Europe and also Middle East.

Our target this year is continue developing Japanese flower's market and expanding its export sales value to double amount.

Our Japanese flower export activities on The Nikkei Shinbun Newspaper

2011-01-25T12:52:00.005+09:00

Our Japanese flower promotion in New York Fashion Week have introduced by Japanese Newspaper

2010-11-13T22:20:00.000+09:00

We are exporting world's finest quality Japanese flowers to New York market every week. And also we are doing promotion activities of Japanese flowers in New York to develop market share of Japanese flowers in New York.

We donated flowers to Fashion Show by Junko Yoshioka, top wedding dress designer in US during NY Fashion Week 2010 Autumn and our promotion activities have introduced by Japanese newspaper.

Our Japanese flowers are handled by G.Page Wholesale, Dutch Flower Line, Harvest Wholesale and J van Vliet New York in NY area and some of wholesale florist in East Coast US like Kelley Wholesale in Boston. They import world's finest quality Japanese flowers from us every week and now we are the largest flower export alliance in Japan.

Japanese Sweet Pea season have started from this week and it is MEGA hit items in New York. We already started exporting and quality and length will be getting better week by week.

Please enjoy our beautiful winter Japanese flowers if you are in East Coast US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia, Middle East and also Europe. We are exporting flowers to there!

News Release ::: Self defense program for sharp appreciation of the yen against the U.S. Dollar

2010-10-25T23:29:00.002+09:00

Dear Valued Customer,

Good day.

Thank you very much for choosing Japanese flowers on your flower wholesale business.
We have been working hard to develop Japanese flower export program over 3 years as a pioneer of flower export business in Japan
And we are proudly providing the world's finest quality flowers to overseas market from Japan with the lowest cost operation in Japanese flower industry.

But as world media says today, we are in situation of sharp appreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar after an interval of 15 years and 6 months now.
And it is so negative situation for Japanese flower export business needless to say.

After long discussion with our alliance members, we intended to start 'Self defense' program to our valued customers as follows,

In case Japanese yen becomes appreciation of the yen over 82 yen for one dollar, we propose 5% discount from our offered FOB price.
This condition shall be started from the 1st November 2010 (Next week shipment) and continued until end of December 2010.

This condition brings better pricing compare to last month and we trust that this offer is very helpful on your purchasing of Japanese flowers even though situation of sharp appreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar after an interval of 15 years and 6 months now.

Again, thank you very much for choosing Japanese flowers on your business and we look forward to develop business together with our world's finest quality flowers!

With best regards,

Yutaka Shirakawa,M.Sc.
-President & CEO,
Bloom Japan Network Co.Ltd.
-Managing Partner for Export Promotion
Naniwa Flower Auction Co.,Ltd.

Tsunehiro Onishi
-Executive General Manager,
Naniwa Flower Auction Co.,Ltd.

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Our sponsorship for Gunness World Record Challenge at Singapore Garden Festival

2010-08-14T17:11:00.003+09:00

Promoting Japanese flowers to overseas markets is one of our most import aim. And we Bloom Japan Network is donated 1,000 stems of Japanese Gloriosa, the world's finest quality Gloriosa with JA Kochi-shi Misato Engeibu to the record attempt of the Guinness World's Record -World's Larget Bouquet challenge orgaized by Nobleman School of Floral Design in Singapore.

This challenge was a official program at Singapore Garden Festival 2010, the Singapore's national flower & garden show which is holding every 2 years.

We also became a 'Counting Wittness' and counted all number of blooms which used on this world's largest bouquet.

The bouquet was so huge, 3.5m wude abd 105.7m long using 179,593 blooms!

It was so beautiful time to join this challenge and seeing the moment of finishing design works!

>>> Check our short movie for the beautiful teamwork for challenging the Guinness Record now! <<<

Kaki-Engei Shinbun Newspaper (Japan) is also reported our Sponsorship
for Guinness World Record Challenge at Singapore Garden Festival 2010

2010-04-28T10:34:00.004+09:00

Our business in USA for Japan flower's new market development have introduced by 'FAST COMPANY ' magazine which is famous business magazine in United States.

When Stephanie Schomer - editor of Fast Company magazine saw Japanese beautiful Paphiopedilum in New York, Stephanie amazed so much about beautifulness. And this magazine reported our fast business development and also beautifulness of Japanese flowers.

You can also reach article on Fast Company's official website below,

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/object-of-desire-paphiopedilum-sato-green-orchid.html

Scene of Valentine's day

2010-02-16T00:36:00.006+09:00

We had big shipment for overseas market on February 8th 2010.

It was for St. Valentine's day sales and also for Chinese New Year sales.

Huge number of Sweet Peas, Ranuncula, Tweedia and Gloriosa have shipped to overseas market e.g. USA, Hong Kong etc.

Especially for New York shipment, we had around 2TONS shipment on this day and we got huge order of Sweet Peas.

On last year, we didn't get such a big order from New York but thanks to our distributors in New York, this year's Valentine's day shipment was so much bigger than last year!

We also hold event in New York on January 25th 2010 and we displayed 237 varieties on this event.

For details of our Japanese flower promotion events in New York is available at following website,

http://event.bloom-japan.net

Information for our Top 3 popular items are available at following website,

-Sweet Pea

http://www.lathyrus.biz

-Gloriosa

http://www.gloriosa.biz

-Tweedia/Oxipetalum

http://www.tweedia.biz

Now Sweet Pea is in the highest season and we hope we are able to provide much wider destination in the world!

Sleeve changing works, we use special sleeve for Sweet Pea export

Drying & anti-vactelium chemical treatment process at drying & cooling room

Unpacked flower for New York Shipment

Russian buyer also checked quality of Japanese Sweet Peas for export

Our event in New York have introduced by Japanese Newspaper

2010-02-15T19:33:00.003+09:00

Our Japanese flower promotion event in New York have closed successfully and The largest daily agriculture newspaper in Japan reported our event in New York so called 'Naniwa Flower Expo (NaniwaFEX) in New York'.

We displayed 237 varieties of Japanese flowers at this event, it was quite huge number of varieties!

The date of event was so bad wether condition, ultra heavy wind & heavy rain shower but over 100 buyers/floral designers from over 60 companies visited to our event. It was very nice event for us and also for our customer in New York to introduce 'Unknown' beautiful flowers from Japan.

For more details, please visit our official website for this event, please click following link!

http://event.bloom-japan.net

Article of our event on top page of newspaper

Carnegie Hall in NY have decorated with Japanese Flowers

2009-12-09T10:18:00.004+09:00

Carnegie Hall, the center of US culture have decorated with Japanese Flowers.

We Bloom Japan Network and our Joint Venture partner Naniwa Flower Auction is cooperate together with Japanese top floral designer in NY Mr Kenji Takenaka (President of the Noir hanna international Inc, New York) and Kenji arranged Stage and VIP reception room using Japanese flowers.

It is the first time to make arrangement at Carnegie Hall at Opening Gara Concert in its long history and we became the first Japanese flower supplier for Carnegie Hall floral decoration.

The Kaki Engei Shinbun Newspaper also reported to Japan's flower industry about this news on the top page of newspaper.

Article of the Kaki Engei Shinbun Newspaper

**Click image to get much large size pictures!**

US wholesale buyer visited to Japan

2009-12-05T11:19:00.000+09:00

Our important customers in New York have visited to Japan.

We bring them to some of growers in Kochi Prefecture (Tweedia Blue Star, Gloriosa) and Miyazaki Prefecture (Sweet Pea) by small plain and also bring them to the Japan's largest pot plants auction nearby Nagoya by Shinkansen Supere Express Train.

They amazed about Japan's complicated farm management and also auction system.

We trust that it was good opportunity for them to understand Japanese flower industry and it will helps Japan's export promotion program.

Small plane flying to Miyazaki Prefecture from Osaka

Visit to Japan's largest pot plants auction 'Toyoake Kaki Co.,Ltd'

Sweet Pea Farm visit in Miyazaki

Tweedia Blue Star farm in Koch

Wedding Dress Show in New York

2009-10-21T17:37:00.006+09:00

Bloom Japan's flowers corroborated with America's top Wedding dress design company 'Junko Yoshioka' and floral design company 'Noir Hanna' in New York.

Our Japanese flowers have chosen by them and used in Wedding dress design show in New York. Now our flowers are displaying at Junko Yoshioka's show room and everybody surprising beautifulness and its quality.

Now we are promoting Japanese flowers in NYC's fashion industry and hope our flowers getting popular for high level peoples in New York...

For more information of Junko Yoshioka, please visit official website as follows,

http://www.junkoyoshioka.com/

2009-10-19T15:39:00.006+09:00

We had a stand at Hortifair 2009 in Amsterdam, from 13th October to 16th October 2009 together with our partners.

This is the first time to hold a stand for Japanese cut flower export business at Hortifair and many potential buyers from all over Japan and also our exsisting buyers have visited our stand.

Many foreign buyers were surprised about Japanese flower's quality and varieties and it was so nice for us to promoote Japanese cut flowers, the finest quality in the world.

From November 11th to 13th, we'll also have a stand at IFEX (International Flower Expo in Tokyo/Makuhari Messe) .

This is also the first time for IFEX orgaization to join Japanese flower export orgaization and we hope we have many visitor to our stand at IFEX.

For more information about IFEX, please visit website,

http://www.ifex.jp/

Our stand at Hortifair 2009 in Amsterdam

Our stand at Hortifair 2009 in Amsterdam

Buyer's visit from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Buyer's visit from Russia

Many buyers in Middle East visited to our stand...

We supplied Japanese flowers to European Floral Designers for F1 Japanese Grand Prix

2009-10-04T23:26:00.000+09:00

We have supplied the finest quality of Japanese flowers to European Floral Designer who is doing floral design at F1 Grand Prix throughout a year for F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

Our flowers have used for decoration at Paddock Club for VIP peoples and Paddock club and also pathway have decorated with huge amount of our Japanese flowers.

We are exporting flowers to overseas market and also supplying to foreign floral designer who want to organize event in Japan as foreign buyer cannot get buyer registration at Japanese auction. So now we also provide flower delivery service for foreign floral designer who want to do something (Event, flower demonstration and event etc...) in Japan.

If you are foreign floral designer and planing to organize event in Japan, please feel free to contact us. We'll provide you the best solution for you about flower supply & related services in Japan.

Visit Our Stand at Horti Fair 2009 in Amsterdam & IFEX 2009 in Tokyo

2009-09-15T03:14:00.002+09:00

We have intended to join 2 important international flower trade shows, Horti Fair 2009 in Amsterdam and also IFEX 2009 in Tokyo.

For more information, please visit following website.

-Horti Fair 2009 (in Amsterdam)

http://www.hortifair.com/

-IFEX 2009 (International Flower Expo in Tokyo)

http://www.ifex.jp/english/

Our export service for USA market have introduced by Japan's nationwide TV station

2009-08-11T01:00:00.003+09:00

Our export business have introduced on TV program by TV Tokyo, one of a nationwide key TV station in Japan.

To see TV program, please visit following official website provided by TV Tokyo.

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/wbs/highlight/o1_165.html

Our business in USA have introduced by 'Flower Shop' Magazine

2009-07-05T22:50:00.008+09:00

Our business in United States have introduced by famous Japanese flower magazine so called 'Flower Shop' issued on June 1st 2009.

This article introduced our business in USA and also included comments by grower of 'Cryspy Wave, a special wavy Asplenium leaf and Ministry officer at Ministory of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishries about our USA export projects.

Our business introduced at 'Hanajikan' magazine

2009-07-05T22:38:00.011+09:00

Our business activities in United States have introduced by famous japanese flower magazin so called 'Hanajikan' issued on June 1st 2009.

Our project in New York have introduced by The Japan Agriculture Newspaper

2009-07-02T08:22:00.000+09:00

Our project in New York togetether with Naniwa Flower Auction, the largest flower auction in western Japan (and 2nd largest cut flower auctin in Asia) have introduced by The Japan Agriculture Newspaper (Nihon Nogyo Shinbun).

Article at 'the Kaki-engei Shinbun' Newspaper

2009-07-01T02:07:00.000+09:00

Our service for Sicilian Growers Association at Marunouchi Flower Weeks 2009/Japan Flower Festival 2009 in Tokyo have introduced on top article of 'The Kaki Engei Shinbun' newspaer.We support Sicilian Growers Association to promote their unique products in Japan at Marunouchi Flower Weeks / Japan Flower Festival 2009 and we got many inquiry for their unique items which grown in Sicily.