Award-Winning Rose Parade Designer Removed After 40 Years Due to Finances

Award-Winning Rose Parade Designer Removed After 40 Years Due to Finances
Kaiser Permanente's "Helping Mother Nature Thrive" float by Fiesta Parade Floats participates in the 127th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 1, 2016. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
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IRWINDALE, Calif.—With just over 185 days before the 2025 Tournament of Roses Parade, Fiesta Parade Floats—the annual procession’s “most awarded float builder”—has been removed as an authorized designer due to its “failure to meet financial and technical criteria,” organizers said.

The decision by the Tournament of Roses Association, which oversees the parade and the football game that follows, comes barely six months after the Irwindale-based designer won awards for all five of the floats it created for the January 2024 parade.

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