From
Mr. Ad Berends, himself:
Ad Berends is 52 years young and a Dutchman, Florist, Floral
Designer, (for example see Eden Floral Farms' calendar 2001
), and I love flowers.
Consultant
and trainer for :
*BBH Flower Council Of Holland, contact Ms. Marly Oosterwijk
oosterwijk@bbh.nl or General Manager BBH Mr.Felix E. Schrandt
Tel. + 31 71 565 95 65 schrandt@bbhy.nl .
Member of:
*VBW Impulsteam ( The Florist Retail Org.in the Netherlands
) The Netherlands, a team who 'translates' flowertrends for
Florists in Europe, if there are questions please contact
Mr. Ruud Baars ruud_baars@hotmail.com .
Trainer and examiner for:
*EFDA ( European Floral Design Academy ) Ms. Jolanda Ettema
info@vbw-groenplein.nl
Marketing and Communication / Creative- trend Consultant for:
*Waterdrinker Aalsmeer BV. The biggest plant - green wholesaler
and Cash & Carry in Europe. Mr. Ed Waterdrinker, General
Manager, CEO ed@waterdrinker.nl
Floral Designer and purchasing agent for:
*Hard goods Basics & Trends Cultra, Aalsmeer ; General
Manager Gert Mulder rosekeet@wanadoo.nl .
Also do demonstrations for the:
*TRADE MART Utrecht, Business Unit Non-Food Retail, Ms. Mariese
Voerman, +31 30 295 57 05. Call Ad van Dongen Leader Instore
Communication de Bijenkorf bv Dept. Stores Amsterdam +31 20
312 97 00.
Worked in 1999 and 2000 with :
*Aad van Uffelen Dutch Flower Master and Int. Designer info@dutchflowerlink.nl
*and with Max van der Sluis who is Dutch Champion Floral Desinger
of 2000 and second at the European Mastership in Austria 2000
+ 31 486 451 476.
Made tradeshow boths and did demonstrations for FLEUROP Netherland:
*Ask President Mr. Ben van Gurp www.fleurop.nl .
I'm creative consultant and floral designer for:
*EDEN FLORAL FARMS Miami Fl. and work with Mr. Michael Lancey
mlancey@edenfloral.com together we made the famous BLACK EDEN
calendar 2001.
So, thats a little bit of what I do!
In
general I Ad Berends like to work with People AND Flowers,
why? Because I LOVE THEM!
For
a personal reference ask my good acquaintance and colleague
Gregor Lersch Bad Neuenahr Germany g.lersch@gmx.de .
Besides
being a trend consultant, leading edge floral designer, and----
Ad's main message to every florist is that we are in the people
business first. We need to shows the public how beautiful
flwoers are, how wonderful it is to have them, and how thoughful
it is to give flowers. A gift of flowers comes from the heart
and are received there too.
for
Eden Floral Farms, who pioneered the growing and distribution
of 5 Star Million Stars Gypsophila to the America. Market.
Ad showed the industry the best ways to use the new variety
- Million Stars - in many spectacular arrangments
|
