Florist blooms with fresh business prospects thanks to council grant

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Your job is creative but hard: in Recklinghausen County, more than 290 employees work in the florist industry. "The jobs in flower shops are mostly women's. Florist women bind bouquets and wreaths, make gestures and bridal decorations. They decorate shop windows, sales rooms and hotel foyers, says Georg Nießing of the IG Bauen-Agrar-Environment. For the district chairman of the florist union IG BAU Emscher-Lippe-Aa it is clear: "Florist women do…