Life seemed pretty good to Rakini Chinery in 2011. Allan’s Flowers & More in Prescott, Arizona, the business she’d owned for more than a decade...
The holidays are right around the corner here (THEY’RE HERE!!!), and search engines are in overdrive trying to match givers to gifts. According to...
How would you handle the situation if your newspaper profiled your business and the reporter peppered you with hard-hitting questions such as “What...
Seven students from four universities were presented cash awards totaling $2,500 for their presentations at the Bryson L. James Student Competition...
Estate tax repeal, a long-time Republican objective — and an important goal for many members of the floral industry — may become a reality during...
Here’s some good news out of Washington: Last week, the House and Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that will protect small businesses from...
Floral designers’ overwhelming response to Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2017: Yeeeesssss! Last week the venerable color institution unveiled its...
News flash: Amazon is big. Really, really big. As of last summer, Amazon had an estimated 63 million Prime members, according to Consumer...
A record-breaking 112 million Americans shopped and dined locally last weekend on Small Business Saturday. That’s a 13 percent increase over 2015,...
Seventy-five floral industry members came together on November 6 in Columbus, Ohio, to learn how to make parties more profitable, unearth “hidden”...
When First Lady Michelle Obama recently unveiled the White House Christmas décor, she made a point to first single out the “chefs, florists,...
In Phoenix, Arizona, one floral industry business spent the run-up to Thanksgiving ensuring community members had enough to eat. For its annual...
Fall holidays? What fall holidays? That seems to be the response of many florists when it comes to Halloween and Thanksgiving 2016 — along with the...
In the 2016 congressional elections, the Society of American Florists achieved a nearly perfect score in supporting candidates for federal elective...
Here’s problem that’s long frustrated hydrangea growers, along with wholesalers and retailers who buy the increasingly popular cut flower: botrytis....