Bloomin’ marvellous
You had to be tough to survive the Melbourne trading floor of the Australian Stock Exchange in the rough and tumble of the greed-is-good 1980s. Melbourne florist Cherrie Mirikilis Pavlou says she learned her work ethic there, when as a youngster she found herself in a male-dominated, cut-throat environment.
“Fortunately, I had a handful of strong female role models,” she recalls. “But I discovered early on that hard work doesn’t kill you and if you do enough of it, anything will go well.”
Cherrie grew up helping out in the fruit and vegie shop her parents, Con and Marika, ran on Brunswick Street in what was thenwhen they visited the neighbourhood institution.
