NEW YORK, NY – On Wednesday, May 4th, 2016, 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Executive Chairman Jim McCann & CEO Chris McCann rang in the Opening Bell at the Nasdaq MarketSide in honor of Mother’s Day.
This is 1-800-Flowers 17th time ringing in the opening bell, so they’re really starting to get the hang of it! 😉
CARLE PLACE, NY – On Thursday, April 29th, 2016, 1-800-Flowers.com celebrated Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at the corporate headquarters in Long Island. Every year 1-800-Flowers.com has an amazing time participating in Take Your Child to Work Day, to help teach today’s youth about different employment opportunities.
This year’s Take Your Child to Work Day agenda was a “home run!” In addition to taking a tour to learn about different areas of our business from marketing to merchandising, our young guests also received hands-on decorating and design experience. From a floral design class with one of our top designers, to dipping strawberries in chocolate from one of our FruitBouquets.com experts, to creatively decorating Cheryl’s cookies and popcorn balls, the kids had a lot of fun, while learning, too! As an added bonus, the children also got to meet a very special guest! But enough writing, we’ll let the pictures do the talking to give you a “play-by-play” of this special day!
The kids started out the day with a presentation about FruitBouquets.com. Talented Designer Diana taught the kids all of her tricks of the trade on how to dip the perfect chocolate covered strawberries! Within minutes, the kids were able to create (and eat :)) their own chocolate berries!
To make this Mother’s Day link to mothers day flowers even more beautiful for mom, we partnered up with Drew Barrymore and her Flower Beauty line to bring mom gifts as beautiful as she is. While supplies last, all purchases of our Blush & Bloom arrangement (farm fresh pink roses a sparkly diamond vase), will also include complimentary popular lip products from Drew Barrymore’s beauty line, FLOWER, for free!
CARLE PLACE, NY – Let the creativity begin! Every season the 1-800-Flowers.com Product Development Team brings some of our most talented Florists together from across the country to brainstorm and design exciting new floral designs! The Floral Design Council is a forum for Professional Franchise Florist’s, their designers, and guest designers to work together in creating unique product concepts for 1-800-Flowers.com. Each Designer brings their own imagination, knowledge of the industry, and familiarity with their customers in order to design innovative floral arrangements that not only fit hot trends, but also help to create new ones.
Our Spring Mother’s Day 2016 Design Council recently took place in April in our floral design studio and has been a huge success! Five florists from five different cities around the country brought their “A game” and crafted some pretty amazing designs, all unique in their own way.
Even though designs are confidential until brought to our site (sorry!), we wanted to share some pictures to show you how some of our products are crafted!
From left to right: Walter Fedyshyn from Chicago IL; Emila Borz from Sacramento, CA; Develyn Reed from Stafford, VA; Jaye Dargan from Dallas, TX; AnnMarie Pierce from Baldwin, NY
Meet Rooney the French Bulldog and go behind the scenes as this lovable pup helps with 1800Flowers’ Valentine’s Day flower selection. From stopping to smell the roses, to meeting a dog made of flowers, Rooney embarks on an exciting Valentine’s Day journey that is truly aDOGable… we mean adorable!
Available TODAY, 1800Flowers has released new flower delivery apps that allows users to purchase and send flowers and gifts in just a few taps on your smartphone!
Users will love some improvements that were made to the new app version including but not limited to: quicker speed, ease of use, and appealing design.
1800Flowers is the first flower company to introduce a completely native flower app to create an entirely new user experience. In fact, it’s so easy that a signed-in customer may not even have to touch the keyboard in order to send flowers, plants and gifts to someone special. Simply browse our gifting collections, choose your gift, select a delivery date and receiver from your contact list, pay, and submit! You will then receive an informative email explaining that your gift is on it’s way! The last step is to expect an excited phone call from that special someone. Smiles all around, since delivering smiles IS our specialty. 🙂 Continue Reading…
NEW YORK, NY – On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Pencils of Promise celebrated their 5th annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. Pencils of Promise is a global community that believes everyone has the right to quality education, and takes action for the cause by raising funds to build schools in countries where children are often deprived of that very right such as Ghana (Africa), Guatemala (Central America), and Laos (Southeast Asia).
Since 2009, Pencils of Promise has grown leaps and bounds building 319 schools, with 33,856 students served! Even though PoP has made amazing progress, with 250 million children lacking basic reading, writing, and math skills, they believe there is more to be done, which is what brings us to the reason for tonight’s gala.
In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we wanted to highlight some of the amazing workers at Smile Farms at IGHL (Independent Group Home Living). Smile Farms is a non-profit organization that employs developmentally disabled adults to give them meaningful work opportunities and allows them grow and sell flowers and plants in the community where they live. To get a better feel for the importance of this initiative, we wanted to share with you what the farmers had to say about their job. It #MadeMeSmile, it makes them smile, and we wanted to share that smile with you, too. Here is what they had to say:
We HAVE to brag about our family! The talented bakers at Cheryl’s have been working hard to create the perfect gluten-free treats, and we are thrilled to announce that they have finally arrived!
Just as sweet and delicious as the originals, these gluten-free cookies and brownies are so delicious that you won’t be able to tell the difference between our everyday treats from our gluten-free desserts! From Cheryl’s signature buttercream cookies, to delicious chocolate brownies, the bakers have been super busy to make sure they offer a wide variety of gluten-free sweets.
So, if you or someone special to you has a gluten intolerance, or are gluten-free by choice, we totally recommend trying out Cheryl’s new gluten-free desserts, available now on Cheryls.com.
We recently announced a special “charity of choice” here at 1800Flowers.com—Smile Farms!
Smile Farms is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the unemployed—and often forgotten— developmentally disabled neighbors in our communities across the country. They’re focused on providing meaningful work opportunities to these adults at local farms, urban gardens, greenhouses and farm stands where they can grow and sell flowers and produce in the communities where they live.
Moreover, they’re dedicated to rallying our neighbors (individuals, small businesses and civic organizations) to support the purchase of these products so that together we’re taking care of each other. Because, just like us, Smile Farms believes that our communities are stronger when everyone has a stake in them—and that together is smart.
Even better—Smile Farms is certified American Grown!
