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| 1965 |
Far East Flora Holdings Pte Ltd was founded by 3 brothers |
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| 1978 |
The first flowers and gifts department was formed |
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| 2000 |
The department launched its online flower store and FarEastFlora.com was incorporated |
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| 2001 |
Sales in 2001 on Valentines Day alone was 4 times that in 1999 |
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| Comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems set up, enabling analysis of consumers’ online behaviour and data-mining. |
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| 2002 |
Conferred the 3rd Annual Intelligent20 Awards, recognizing it as one of the region's top 20 enterprises that use infocomm-related technologies to drive new levels of operational excellence, customer service, and innovation. |
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| 2004 |
Launch of CreativeWorkz®, FarEastFlora.com’s in-house floral design school, the first in the industry to launch an innovative scholarship scheme. |
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| Integrated address management system set up, resulting in a reduction in the number of inaccuracies by six times, to fewer than five a month. |
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| 2005 |
Far East Flora.com Pte Ltd expands into mobile commerce and becomes one of the content providers in the new Starhub i-mode mobile Internet service |
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| Launched World's first full-colour printing on fresh flowers— Flower Memo® |
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| First batch of florist apprentice scholarship programme conducted by CreativeWorkz® |
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| 2006 |
Achieved the Singapore Service Class (S-Class), the certification for the business excellence niche standard for service |
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| Tapped into the Hongkong market with the start-up of FarEastFlora.com.hk |
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| Participated in Green Thumbs 2006, an inaugural Landscape Skills Contest, recognizing the efforts of the landscape industry and employers for their commitment and support towards skills upgrading of the workforce. |
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| Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Lee Yi Shyan visits Far East Flora, and gives a stamp of approval for its success since receiving a grant from SPRING Singapore. |
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| 2008 |
CreativeWorkz® becomes a part of the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) initiative, in collaboration with the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) scheduled to be launched officially in September. |
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| 2009 |
Launched first retail outlet at City Square Mall in homeland Singapore. |
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| 2010 |
Ventured into Malaysia market with www.FarEastFlora.com.my and Floristika, a one-stop floriculture centre located in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. |
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| 2011 |
1st Singapore Florist to create a fully-integrated mobile app for iPhones and Nokia with over 1000 flowers and gifts choices. |
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| 2012 |
SG Florist rose to the ranks of the Top 30 Lifestyle Apps in iTunes stores in the month of January and February. |
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