Look out, 2018: Many floral industry members are heading into the new year with high expectations. Forty-eight percent of respondents to the Society of American Florists’ recent Economic Outlook Survey said they are “optimistic” about sales expectations in 2018 —...
New Year’s resolutions can get a bad rap, says Derrick P. Myers, CPA, CFP, PFCI. “Too often, they fall into the category of ‘impossible to achieve’ (e.g., ‘I’ll lose 100 pounds in three months’),” he writes in the January issue of Floral Management. “And even when a...
Water is a precious — and expensive resource in California. Figuring out how to manage that water, while growing first rate flowers, has been a decades-long pursuit at Mellano & Co. That’s why the company has invested in a new irrigation system that provides...
The Association of Floral Importers of Florida (AFIF) is celebrating 35 years of representing the flower importers with a new logo. AFIF: America’s Flower Connection has been the longtime tag line of the association, but now is becoming the center of what the members...
“They’re ba-ack!” The popular catchphrase from a mid-1980s horror flick haunted Jenny Scala, director of marketing and communications at the Society of American Florists, when she opened the e-mail from Kathy Weatherford of Hood’s Florist and Gifts...
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