After more than 10 years in business, online florist Ready Flowers has just surpassed 1 million customers across the world, thanks to its collaboration with 4000 florists in more than 90 countries.

Starting out as an online flower-delivery site in Perth, Western Australia, in 2005, Ready Flowers expanded to Southeast Asia two years later and a year later established its global headquarters in Hong Kong.

With trained customer-service representatives and a multi-lingual staff, the company says that more than 54 per cent of its transactions come from returning customers.

Ready Flowers aims for high company values and practises corporate social responsibility. As well as emphasising quality, friendly service, the company holds as core values its culture of staff empowerment, technological development and business innovation, teamwork, customer satisfaction and integrity.

Buyers can send flowers or special gift baskets to people in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, The Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, the UK and many other markets.

Flower types available include Asiatic lilies, gerberas, irises, orchids, Oriental lilies, tulips and roses, plus there are gift baskets, hampers, corporate gifts, arrangements and special-occasion gifts.