A popular sock company that disparaged the gift of flowers in a Valentine’s Day email has a message for the floral industry: “We hope you can...
The world's largest software maker and magazine and news editors promoting food gifts are among the companies making disparaging remarks about...
When Robert Bryant, AAF, AIFD, of Flowers By Robert Taylor West Covina, California saw a Facebook post that read, “Get Tickets instead of Last...
The world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands and a startup company in the custom framing industry apologized to the floral industry...
When Tim Noble took over as president of Hortica at the beginning of the year, it marked a significant change in company leadership. He succeeded...
Five years ago, Peggy and Wayne DeBey, AIFD, were facing the kinds of problems familiar to many small retail flower shops: Fewer people were coming...
When Americans who observe Easter celebrate this weekend, one group is expected to be especially enthusiastic: Those under 35. That’s according to...
Earlier this month, a team of ambassadors representing the Society of American Florists trekked through the Pacific Northwest in a vintage-style van...
A Dallas flower shop has earned national attention for playing along in a silly and, well, rather buttery prom promotion. Cheddars Scratch Kitchen,...
Weeks after dozens of growers, wholesalers, suppliers and retailers traveled to Washington, D.C., for the Society of American Florists’...
Well, that was wicked fun. (Sorry. Can’t help ourselves!) On Sunday, 168 floral industry members from 20 states plus Washington, D.C., and Canada...
OK, Google. That was pretty funny. In a lighthearted, two-minute video that almost fooled us, Google “promoted” what it termed new technology:...
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The Society of American Florists loves lilies and cats, but the two don't mix. As you may know (and your customers may not), several types of lilies...
Leaders of several national associations met on March 13, 2019, at the headquarters of the Society of American Florists in Alexandria, Virginia, to...