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Fiesta Parade Floats
is the leading award
winning float-builder in the Tournament of Roses Parade with an impressive 67
percent winning rate averaged over the past twenty years, the highest award rate
in the Rose Parade industry. Fiesta has built FIFTEEN consecutive
Sweepstakes Trophy winners in the Rose Parade including FTD / Florists'
Transworld Delivery float entries in 2007, 2006, 2004, 1996 and 1994, Rain Bird
Sprinkler entries in 2008, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1999 and 1998, Target Stores in
2000, California State PTA in 1997, and the 1995 Countrywide Home Loans float.
Fiesta Parade Floats reputation with the Tournament of Roses as a dependable
float builder is highly respected. Fiesta Parade Floats is considered the leader
in both floral technology and floral application
throughout the float and floral industries. Fiesta surpasses all other builders
in the field of computerized and hydraulic animation.
In addition to parade floats, Fiesta also builds custom props for
television commercials, feature films, exhibits and theme parks. Major
exhibits include: Sunset Magazine Spring Garden Show, Crystal Court South
Coast Plaza, American Institute of Floral Design National Symposium,
Feature Exhibits and the Flower / Garden Pavilion at the Los Angeles
County Fair, Bellagio and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Innovations,
Disneyland’s newest attraction in Tomorrowland and Venus Fort Shopping
Mall in Tokyo, Japan.
Tim Estes CFE
(Certified Festival
& Events Executive), President of Fiesta Parade Floats, is a
well-known name in the float building industry. With over 30 years
experience building floats, Tim has assembled an extremely qualified and
talented team in all areas of construction, design, engineering,
animation, sculpturing and decoration. Tim designs the structural
engineering of Fiesta's floats and oversees the development and
implementation throughout the construction and sophisticated animation
stages.
Tim has overseen the construction of over 400 Rose
Parade floats and countless number of floats in parades throughout the
United States and Canada, including Fiesta’s annual participation in the
Hollywood Christmas Parade.
Jim Hynd AIFD,
Vice President and Floral
Director of Fiesta Parade Floats, is one of the keys to Fiesta's great
success for over 40 years. In addition to determining the selection and
use of floral materials, Jim coordinates the construction and art
departments with his artistic interpretation of the float designs. His
creative work has appeared on more prize-winning floats than any other
floral designer in the history of the Tournament of Roses Parade. He is
greatly respected for his innovative contributions in float decoration and
decoration materials.
Jim is a charter member of the American Institute of Floral Design (AIFD)
and the recipient of AIFD’s 1998 Award of Distinguished Service to the
Floral Industry. His design work is known throughout the world having
won numerous world class floral design competitions held in the United
States, Europe and Asia. He is a frequent guest speaker and judge at major
floral seminars, exhibits and competitions.
Under Jim Hynd’s floral direction and the artistic interpretation by
the talented crew at Fiesta Parade Floats, the floats designed by Raul and
created by Fiesta Parade Floats have won the most awards in the Rose
Parade.
This combined team has won over 282 awards in the
Tournament of Roses Parade with twenty-four Sweepstakes Awards, including
the past fifteen years in a row! Fiesta Parade Floats has the highest
prize-winning rate in the float industry average in the last 20 years.
This is an extremely important fact since a prize-winning float can
receive 2 to 3 times the amount of media coverage over non-prize winning
floats.
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