Cathy Yang, ANC

<div class="containing-block"><div class="outer-container"><div style="display:none">Default News template and player embed</div><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js"></script><object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4739358827001"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/><param name="width" value="510"/><param name="height" value="287"/><param name="playerID" value="1880751799001"/><param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAABtXvbPVE~,ZfNKKkFP3R9qoEvgz2KMCs8gaY-UGBkT"/><param name="isVid" value="true"/><param name="isUI" value="true"/><param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true"/><param name="@videoPlayer" value="4739358827001"/></object><script type="text/javascript">brightcove.createExperiences();</script></div></div><p>MANILA - Necessity is the mother of invention.</p><p>The saying is true in the case of IslandRose.net chief executive Dustin Andaya, whose idea for the online flower business was a result of cramming for a paper in his IT class in graduate school in the University of Bath School of Management, where he graduated in 1999.</p><p>Back then, he simply called home for the required information on his father&#x27;s flower farm, whose modest beginnings he has since helped revolutionize.<br/><br/>No wonder it&#x27;s grown from a $2,000 investment to a household name in flower delivery in the Philippines.</p><p>Interestingly enough, the online business builds on the very brand the flower farm had registered but never used, adding the tagline, &quot;Keeping relationships alive.&quot;</p><p>For Andaya, there&#x27;s no better relationship than the one he has for keeps, which he grows with lots of care and quality time.</p><p>Aside from giving his wife flowers for Valentine&#x27;s, his idea of a dream date is enjoying the great outdoors, whether in a secluded cabin near an ocean, a lake or a mountain with his wife and sons--the very objects of his affections as well as of his labor and sacrifice.</p>

MANILA - Necessity is the mother of invention. The saying is true in the case of IslandRose.net chief executive Dustin Andaya, whose idea for the online flower business was a result of cramming for a paper in his IT class in graduate school in the University of Bath School of Management, where he graduated in 1999. 

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Dustin Andaya: CEO saying it with more than flowers

Cathy Yang,

ANC

Published Feb 05, 2016 10:54 AM PHT

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