NEOflora & Hitomi

It is thrilling for me when I find something in our floral industry to be different – new flower varieties, cool design, upcoming designers, and so on. So when I stumbled upon NEOflora on Facebook, I was thrilled and knew I wanted to share what this organization is doing with you, our community. I had the pleasure of working with THE Hitomi Gilliam AIFD to provide you with the interview below. Enjoy!

Floral For Home Decoration Slumps, Consumer Trends Signal Re-Bound

October 18, 2012 Prince & Prince, Inc.

Prince & Prince has recently released a new Market Report on U.S. consumer floral purchasing for home decor, "Consumer Floral Usage for “Home Decoration” Slumps in Recession, But Consumer Demographic Trends Signal a Re-Bound".

Michigan Floral Foundation (MFF) 2012 Hall Of Fame Induction

October 18, 2012 Michigan Floral Foundation

On October 11th, the Michigan Floral Foundation (MFF) inducted Mrs. Bobbi Ecker-Blatchford AAF, AIFD, PFCI into its Hall of Fame.  The event was held in the beautiful Pantlind Ballroom at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, MI.

County Of Monroe Industrial Development Agency OKs Wegmans Cheese Operation

COMIDA on Tuesday approved $713,000 worth of tax breaks for Wegmans Food Markets Inc. as it looks to add an $8.1 million cheese-aging facility to its Market Street campus in Chili.

The Farmer In The Deli

With their new store, Kathy and Bruce Workman join a recent surge of Wisconsin farmers, cheesemakers and chocolatiers looking to expand from providing their products wholesale into retail.