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says. In business since 2006, the company sells to a wide variety of retailers, from small mom and pops to supermarkets, smaller chains, mass marketers and any- one who wants diversity in their products. “Stores today seem to want to expand their base,” Schweky says. “One product line doing very well for us is ar- tifi cial fl owers, including bushes and short bunches of fl owers,” he says. “We’re selling them to mass market people and dollar stores, and supermarkets are picking up on them as well. They’re eye catching and colorful, and priced at a good point,” he adds.


Still, Schweky has mixed feel-


ings about last year and the New Year. “2010 was our best year so far,” he says. “We’re putting in the necessary hours, calling on new customers, and we print six different catalogs a year, each a full glossy. Our customers com- ment that the merchandise is as nice as it appears in the catalog.” Still it’s not all good news, and he remains cautious about the market in general. Asked about the coming year, he expresses


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