Happy Daisies - Fun Colour Movement

Happy Daisies
Plastic Garden Ornaments

Happy Daisies are all available from The Warehouse stores throughout New Zealand.

Plastic molding is done in Christchurch and assembled and distributed from our home based family business since 1993 up the Maitai Valley in Nelson New Zealand.

Basket of Happy Daisies

A selection of colourful Classic Happy Daisies in a basket.

Seeds sown from redundancy

Happy Daisies could be the key to a happy future for a newly unemployed Nelson man who has turned his hand to growing new business.
Jeff Shallcrass, of the Maitai Valley, was among the first to lose his job at Telecom earlier this year, in a new wave of redundancies which could see staff levels nationally reduced by 5200 in the next four years.

Armed with a redundancy cheque, a government enterprise grant and a brainwave  from nine years ago, he decided to strike out on his own with a new business venture.

The plastic meter-high daisies are a first for New Zealand and should be a strong contender on the novelty market this year, he believes.

A batch of 5000 is on the press now, while a trial run of 120 was launched at The Warehouse in Nelson on Friday.

Daisies which whirl in the wind came from a similar product he brought back from Canada in 1984, but the name "happy daisies" is his own.

" I definitely think I'm onto a seller, I've had lots of positive feedback," he said yesterday.

The brightly-coloured daisies were a perfect environmentally sound golden idea, being spray free, easy to grow and which did not need watering, he said.

With ideas for fluorescent batches and other daisy developments, Mr Shallcrass hoped to keep them on the market for 10 years.

"But it may not always be a daisy, it could be something quite different," he said.

To help cover his initial costs the Employment Service gave him a lump sum payment of $5000.

Nelson Evening Mail September 1993

Classic New Zealand Happy Daisies

Purple and yellow original Happy Daisy

Happy Daisy specifications are as follow.

Fan: 30 cm in diameter.
Wire Stem: 60 cm long 4 mm Galvenised wire.
Happy Daisy come in a variety of colours as follows.

Yellow, red, blue, purple, pink, and lime fans same colour's for centers lots of combinations.

"Happy Daisies" Uses And Ideas

Happy Daisy Outlets

Happy Daisy are available from the following outlets.

New Zealand
All Warehouse stores - Garden Ornaments
website: www.thewarehouse.co.nz

Jeff Shallcrass Enterprises
582 Maitai Valley Road
Community Box 11
Maitai Valley Road
Nelson

Australia

Austasia Commodities Pty Ltd (Glenview Products) Sole Australian Distributor
3 Edenholm Street
West Pymble
N.S.W
Australia
website: www.glenviewproducts.com.au

Singapore
Far East Flora Pte Ltd
555 Thomson Road
Singapore 298140
Website:  www.fareastfloragarden.com