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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: of our listeners. Sunday is Mother's Day. Typically, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you would send flowers, but you also might send gourmet

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Speaker 1: foods and gift baskets. In fact, Flowers dot Com Incorporated

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Speaker 1: has made more money from the latter than the former

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Speaker 1: in recent time. Springing Chris McCann right now. He's the

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Speaker 1: president and CEO. UM. Chris talked to us first about

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Speaker 1: the product mix. Um, I've got to guess you sell

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Speaker 1: more flowers on Sunday than any other day of the year,

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Speaker 1: but you sell a lot more than that. Sure, thanks

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Speaker 1: thanks for having us. It's just such a crepet week

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Speaker 1: on a mother is all around the world. It's just

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Speaker 1: such an important role that they play. And you're right,

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Speaker 1: Flowers in a traditional way to say thank you, in

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Speaker 1: a way to say happy Mother's Day. But as we've

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Speaker 1: branched out, gourmet foods from Harry and David h charcolate

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Speaker 1: covered berries from Shari's Berries, or our newest brand, personalization

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Speaker 1: Mall is just doing great this holidays. People are uploading

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Speaker 1: photos to us. We're putting it in a picture frame

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Speaker 1: for them, personalizing the message on the frames, sending it

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Speaker 1: to their recipients. Mother's Day has become much more than

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Speaker 1: just flowers. And as a company whose mission is to

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Speaker 1: help our customers express, connect and celebrate, we're just so

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Speaker 1: well positioned for that. So, Chris, give us a sense

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Speaker 1: of how your business was impacted by the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: maybe how you think your business is going to uh

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of come out of this pandemic. But

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Speaker 1: we've been very fortunate really that, you know, to all

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Speaker 1: the troubles that we've had, you know, in our personal

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Speaker 1: two major shifts that took place during the pandemic, the

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Speaker 1: tectonic shift from offline sales to online sales, and as

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Speaker 1: an e commerce platform that's built for growth, we're right

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Speaker 1: think we've all learned through this time relationships are so important,

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Speaker 1: the need to stay connected to needs for human beings

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Speaker 1: to express themselves, and that's who we are as a company.

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Speaker 1: So we had good momentum going into the pandemic, good

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Speaker 1: growth momentum that was accelerated significantly, just as the pandemic

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Speaker 1: accelerated change in every area of life. So the year later,

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Speaker 1: just over a year later, we're a much bigger, better,

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Speaker 1: stronger company than we ever were. In fact, we got

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Speaker 1: guided for double digit growth this quarter on top of

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Speaker 1: we see double digit growth going forward into our next

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Speaker 1: fiscal year as well. How do you compete in um,

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Speaker 1: the age of the Internet. You know, you've got competitors

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Speaker 1: years we've built such great brand recognition, such great brand

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Speaker 1: I noticed, I mean, it's always been the case when

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Speaker 1: All right, Chris, thanks so much for joining us. We

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Speaker 1: always appreciate chatting with you. Getting uh the latest on

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Speaker 1: the gift at giving a business and nobody does it

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Speaker 1: better than the good folks at one Flowers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Christma can't see Flowers dot Com Incorporated giving us his

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Speaker 1: so much. We appreciate that small cap report. Let's take

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Speaker 1: at Melan. Manuel, thanks so much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: We've seen in the equity markets really since September, kind

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