Partner Profiles
Success Stories from some of the world’s best florists
At Bloomerang Solutions we provide organizations of all sizes with advanced networking, communications, and technology solutions. We offer a full range of digital products and services, including a comprehensive suite of social media management services, data networking solutions, managed services and web services.
For over 35 years, Art Conforti and his team of experienced communications specialists have partnered with some of the most respected leaders in the retail florist industry. Below are a few of our success stories. We have room to add yours too!
Gordon Bonetti Florist
WETHERSFIELD, CT
Gordon Bonetti first started selling flowers in the Hartford, CT area back in the 1880’s. Always a family-owned business from the start, current owner John Tornatore and his family took over the company in 1979 and have continued the tradition while adding new ones over the years. Now his daughter Jennifer runs the design room with the help of granddaughters Brianna and Halei.
Palace Florists
Rockville, MD
The family behind Palace Florists has been cultivating beautiful moments with floral art and design in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since their founding by Barney Klateman in 1943. Nearly 80 years later, the family business is still going strong thanks to 3rd generation owners Lee and Beth Herman, who have been operating the shop since 1994.
Frank Gallo & Son Florist
Schenectady, NY
Frank Gallo Jr. is a third generation retail florist in Schenectady, NY. He wasn’t raised in the flower business and didn’t aspire to working in the floral industry, but as fate would have it, he ended up there. He learned the business from the ground up at his family’s flower shop, Frank Gallo Florist, which was established in 1920 – over 100 years ago!
Canadiana
Flowers
Toronto, ON
Stephen Mangos is a second generation retail florist from Toronto, Ontario Canada. Stephen and his brother Chris learned the basics of the retail flower industry at a young age, growing up among the beauty of flowers and the hard work of their parents, Jim and Teresa Mangos who opened Canadiana Flowers in 1973. Nearly 50 years later they are one of Toronto’s busiest florists.
Walter Knoll Florist
St. Louis, MO
Walter Knoll Florist is a family-owned and operated full-service florist located in the St. Louis, MO metro area. Walter Knoll III and his brothers, Chuck, and David - along with their wives - all work in the family business. They are the fifth generation florists. Walter, Chuck, and David’s children all work in the company as well, and they compose the sixth generation.