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Article: A sweet holiday tradition
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2006
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The showroom at Knoll furniture smells like cloves, chocolate, and
molasses. On two long conference tables, employees are setting out
boxes and bags of cookies: penny-sized gingersnaps, radiant iced
snowflakes, fluffy white divinity candy, and long, crisp biscotti.
Employee Rob Manziano is called to reception to pick up a package. It
turns out to be six varieties of homemade fudge sent from his mother -
and just in time. It's Manziano's contribution to the company's
annual Christmas cookie event.
Six years ago, instead of sending gift baskets to their co-
workers in other cities, the Boston branch of this North Carolina-
based office and residential furniture company started sending boxes ...