Stark Bros Nursery

Many inquiries have been initiated into the reasons why Foster-Gallagher, the largest direct to consumer horticultural products in North America, filed for bankruptcy on July 2, 2001, after the cessation of all normal operations from June 29, 2001. Somewhere between 3000 and 4000 employees lost their jobs and retirement benefits, fairness and equity within $ 100 million in debt liabilities. The network of companies, ownership and operating under the auspices of Foster-Gallagher, were known by active buyers bulb U.S. for many generations. Stark Brother's Nursery (Stark Bros.) has been known and raised the prestige of the clientele of fruits, nuts, berries, plants, vines, and other shade trees and vines, as the supplier most respected national of these products to the United States. domestic producers of fruit from the orchard were loyal to Stark Nursery Brother to buy fruit trees and vines, special plant and grow with an unshakable confidence that a healthy revenue stream of income would be raised to help American family farmers. agricultural products than fruit would be available in commercial markets to health, bright colors, Aromatic berries, grapes and fruit. How then could an American nursery with a flawless reputation for excellent quality, service, and a record of survival in an extremely competitive business, become the helpless victim of the failure and unforgettable shame of bankruptcy? This question could be expanded to other bulb Foster-Gallagher property and seed companies.

Gurney's Seed and Nursery and Nursery Henry Field has also sold thousands of orders for fruit, nut and shade trees, etc., as nursery Stark Brother, but they also sold a large market of buyers vegetable plants in a market, which itself has been enormously profitable. If these companies were removed from the U.S. market "Cui Bono?" Who will benefit from this loss, and out of place these giants of the success of mail in the past? Would-mail the new companies to replace owned or controlled by the Dutch office located in the Netherlands?

Google search results show that Foster-Gallagher shipped 17 million packages in 2000. The amount of income that was generated by consumers order and purchase 17 million packages is enormous even for a liberal spirit.

Perhaps the more specific the generator of income for 21 companies mail belonging to Foster-Gallagher mainly resulted from the sale of flower bulbs. Companies bulb nationally recognized Michigan Bulb Company, Springhill Nursery, Breck's bulb company, New Holland Bulb Company mysterious and facilities located in the Netherlands collapsed when its parent company, Foster-Gallagher, declared bankrupt 2 July 20001. A national chaotic frenzy followed, when he was given that all these people who had placed orders for Foster-Gallagher, public enterprises, and all those other customers are waiting for replacement orders next season would not fill their orders . The credibility of disappointed customers placing mail has been broken by these reports of "cold shoulder" offered to those who had sunk their savings accounts and the planting of trust in business Foster-Gallagher.

Google search results showed that 2 September 2001, executives Foster-Gallagher said the company collapsed in the wake of negative media coverage and provoked a sharp drop in business income leading to catastrophic national bankruptcy, leaving a liability of the debt at $ 100,000,000 sorted by federal bankruptcy court in Delaware and angry customers mail that has absorbed the bad news that their orders and payments received were undeliverable and noncollectable!

Many questions remain unanswered to this RA.