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Our Story
The story of Rainbow Flowers Imports begins nearly half a century ago, when childhood friends James Cannon and Ken Lee shared a love of baseball on the same Little League team. The friendship continued and after college the two decided to go into the farming business together. James Cannon brought years of family farming experience to the operation and Ken Lee used his financial knowledge and banking expertise to help the start-up company flourish.
Farming over 300 acres in Ruskin, Florida, they tilled the soil, planted the seeds and cultivated the land, while experiencing first hand the vigorous process of producing 12 different varieties of fresh cut flowers. All in all, Rainbow Flowers Imports provides each customer with confidence required, in order to completely fulfill all desires!
As the business of fresh flowers expanded, the company progressed into importing flowers beginning in 1992. A couple of years later, Rainbow Flowers focused all of its efforts on importing flowers from Ecuador moving its main office to Tampa as well as opening two additional offices in Miami and Ecuador to oversee the process of selecting, shipping and delivering flowers.
Seeing
the business has changed over the years, Grymes Cannon can now be seen walking the fields,
examining the stems and buds of flowers, and remaining connected to the land as was his farther
Jamie Cannon from day one!
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Jamie's son, Grymes Cannon, and his new partner Stephen Bokas, with whom he formed a childhood bond, similiar to the one on which Rainbow was founded by Jamie and his partner of many years, Kenny Lee, is intended to ensure for another generation quality products and service. Grymes brings high energy and leadership qualities to Rainbow and is blessed with a strong staff there by generating a positive working environment! Grymes has obtained and shared his first hand knowledge of the Flower Industry directly from childhood, where he grew up working the fields along side his father Jamie and Godfather Kenny. The knowlegde and character instilled in Grymes by Jamie and Kenny is Priceless. |