How did a nighttime social worker at the St. John's Home for Boys in Queens, N.Y., get the audacity to think he could launch a national chain of flower shops? As Jim McCann says of his younger self, "Sometimes naiveté can be an asset." McCann parlayed a single shop into the easy-to-remember 1-800-Flowers.com (FLWS). Today it's a florist and gift-shop company that serves 70 countries and generated $1 billion in revenue last year. McCann, 62, has been running the business for 38 years, and, he maintains, he's still not quite ready to stop and smell the roses. His story:
Planting the seeds for 1-800-Flowers.com - Feb. 27, 2014
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