Month: September 2018

Summer Beef Campaign In The Northeast

September 17, 2018 Beef Checkoff

The modern-day grocery shopping experience is a far cry from how our parents shopped for their family meals. Technology is truly changing the way we shop for food, isn’t it? You really are just a few clicks away from your groceries showing up at your door step in a matter of hours, complete with helpful meal solutions to pull off a home-cooked meal in under 30 minutes. The Beef Checkoff’s Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative (NEBPI) took advantage of several non-traditional retail marketing platforms this summer, ensuring that Northeast shoppers chose beef as the center for their summer celebratory meals. …

Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion & Research Board Approves FY19 Plan Of Work

September 17, 2018 Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board

The Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board will invest about $40.5 million into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing and producer communications during fiscal 2019, subject to USDA approval. …

Green City Promoted Through AIPH/COA 'Community Garden' At Taichung World Floral Expo 2018

September 17, 2018 International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH)

The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) has commissioned the multi award-winning garden design and landscape architecture practice Lotus Design Studio to design and create a ‘Community Garden’ for the AIPH-approved 2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition. The AIPH/COA Community Garden is designed to demonstrate how green spaces can improve the environment, social life and health of urban communities. …

Jet Fresh Flower Growers Wins Ribbons At SAF 2018 Outstanding Varieties Competition

September 17, 2018 Jet Fresh Flower Growers, S.A.

Jet Fresh Flower Growers, S.A. received ribbons for all their roses varieties submitted to SAF’s 2018 Outstanding Varieties Competition. …

Teleflora Names Shirley Lyons Of Dandelions Flowers & Gifts As The 2018 Tom Butler “Floral Retailer Of The Year”

September 17, 2018 Teleflora

Teleflora, the world’s leading floral delivery service, today announced that Shirley Lyons, former owner of Dandelions Flowers & Gifts, was the recipient of the fourth annual Tom Butler “Floral Retailer of the Year” Award. Opened in 1973, Dandelions Flowers & Gifts is a first-generation, family-owned floral shop in Eugene, OR with a strong emphasis on customer service and community involvement. …