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API , a security company. API Alarm Systems, which started in the s, provided both patrols and alarm systems. The alarms, installed in retail, office, and industrial buildings as well as in houses, were connected to monitoring centers. If an alarm went off, an operator at the center could summon the closest police or fire department.
By , it was the largest alarm company in California. The Resnicks, however, kept the API name. In they renamed their holding company Roll International after an agricultural company they had acquired. Sending out-of-town flower orders by wire began in when two U. In , attorney Edwin S. Douglas founded a rival service.
Originally called Telegraph Delivery Service, the name was changed to Teleflora. The Resnicks bought the California-based company in after it had changed hands several times. A year after the purchase, Lynda Resnick introduced the concept of keepsake containers and revolutionized the floral delivery business. Instead of just wiring a flower arrangement or a dozen flowers, people could order their flowers in a special vase or basket that the receiver could use after the flowers died.
In , the company set up its Teleflora Technologies division, providing retail members a computer system with software specifically designed for florists, and Creditline, which allowed members to process credit card purchases immediately. The company also published an award-winning magazine for the retail floral business. But by the early s customers had options other than wire services for out-of-town orders. Toll-free telephone numbers were the biggest competition, although catalogs and online delivery services added to the problem.
In , Roll made the first of its three bids for FTD. The merger would have positioned Roll to dominate the industry, but FTD announced it would instead accept a lower bid from Perry Capital Inc. The nonprofit florist cooperative became essentially a trade group representing member florists.
The business ventures became part of FTD Inc. One of the first initiatives of the new owners was the establishment of FTD. Teleflora continued to look for acquisitions.
In , the company became the largest florist network in the country with the purchase of Redbook Florist Services. The next year it acquired Daisy Systems, which provided computerized shop-management systems to retailers.
Building on those systems, Teleflora introduced its 'Teleflorist Online' service in October The new service offered Teleflora's 27, members professionally designed and managed web sites with e-commerce support such as credit card processing, e-mail gift reminders, and an online address book for customers. Unlike competitor FTD. The Resnicks moved into agribusiness in the mids. They first bought a citrus growing and processing operation near Bakersfield, California, which became Paramount Citrus Association.
Paramount Citrus grew and packed fruit for both the retail and wholesale markets, selling oranges, lemons, apples, and grapefruit. The company sold much of its juice as Alpha-Beta. The 12,acre pistachio and almond farm near Bakersfield was renamed Paramount Farming Co. The next year the Resnicks bought Texaco's central California farming operations, adding some 77, acres of farmland, also in the San Joaquin Valley.
In the Resnicks formed Paramount Farms, a processing and marketing group that sold pistachios and almonds under its own label as well as wholesale. Paramount Farms' nuts were soon selling across the country and internationally, primarily to cereal and candy manufacturers, including Cadbury, Nestle, Hershey, Carnation, and Kellogg.
Over the years, Paramount Farms expanded its processing and marketing operations to include citrus, olives, and pomegranates. By , Paramount Farms was the largest grower, processor, and marketer of almonds and pistachios in the world.
By the late s, Paramount Citrus had become one of the state's largest citrus producers. In , the company bought 3, acres and several packing houses from Dole Food Co.
The purchase, which brought its total acreage of citrus to nearly 27,, made Paramount Citrus the largest grower, packer, and marketer of fresh citrus in the country.
In , Joseph Segal founded General Numismatics, a company devoted to producing and marketing commemorative coins, medals, and other metal objects. The company's first coin was a commemorative of General Douglas MacArthur.
Segal set up his own production facility and in took the company public and changed the company's name to Franklin Mint. Within two years, Segal had built a new headquarters and a modern mint and foundry near Media, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb.
At that point, Franklin Mint became a subsidiary of Warner. It retained the administration building, minting facilities, library, mailing center, and a retail store. Stewart Resnick became chairman and Lynda vice-chairman. As the Resnicks expanded Franklin Mint's offerings, they also set about making Franklin Mint Museum a tourist destination. The museum, which opened in , contained about 7, square feet of exhibit space.
A visitor could find the major items from the Franklin Mint offerings and trace popular tastes--pewter during the American Bicentennial, the growth of fantasy, and dolls, dolls, dolls.
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