Signature event in Macon, GA, attracts over 350,000 visitors
Macon, GA – March 1, 2011 – Birch Communications, a leading IP-based telecom and managed services provider to small and medium-sized businesses, announced today that it will be one of the lead sponsors of the 29th annual International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia, March 18th -22nd 2011.
The festival has become one of the Top 20 Events in the South, Top 50 Events in the U.S. and Top 100 Events in North America. It has grown from a three-day festival with 30 events, into a 10-day celebration featuring hundreds of events.
“The Macon International Cherry Blossom festival is the official harbinger of Spring,” said Vincent Oddo, Birch president and CEO. “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to take a leadership role in sponsoring this international event in our hometown of Macon, GA. The International Cherry Blossom Festival allows this generation and the next to celebrate the beauty of trees, experience international friendship and the benefits of improving our environment.”
Macon resident William A. Fickling, Sr., a man who possessed a deep appreciation for beauty and a passion for horticulture, began raising Yoshino cherry trees in 1952. This led to the planting of approximately 500 Yoshino cherry trees all over Macon in 1973. Since that time, the number of Yoshino cherry trees in Macon has grown to over 300,000. In 1982, the first Cherry Blossom Festival was held to celebrate the beauty of the trees and to honor Fickling. The Fickling Family Foundation continues to donate thousands of cherry trees to Macon residents each year and their generosity helps maintain Macon’s distinctive designation as Cherry Blossom Capital of the World.
Each March, Macon becomes a pink cotton-spun paradise of delight as over 300,000 Yoshino cherry trees bloom in all their glory. And for 10 days, festival-lovers are treated to one of the most extravagant displays of springtime color in the nation as they visit the town referred to by Congressional Records as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World.
For more information on this event go to www.cherryblossom.com
About Birch Communications
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Birch Communications provides managed communications and information technology services to a target market of small and medium businesses in select metropolitan areas within 38 states across the United States. Birch services include local and long distance voice, broadband Internet access, mobile voice and data, e-mail, voicemail, web hosting, virtual private network, and many other communications and information technology services. Birch voice and data services are, in most cases, delivered using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology using Birch’s secure IP-Network rather than over the public Internet.
According to Inc.500|5000 magazine in its 2004, 2009 and 2010 rankings, Birch was one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. In 2010, Birch was also named the 7th fastest growing private business in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Please visit www.birch.com for more information.
Contact:
Greg Corwin, Marketing Director
greg.corwin@birch.com
816.300.1686
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