Two states have recently won victories in the battle against deceptive phone book listings.

Started in 1973 by a West Virginia mother of 15, Grandparents Day, is right around the corner, Sept. 9.

Employers have been granted a short-term reprieve from the Department of Homeland Security's new "no-match" regulations.

Award-winning designer, floral commentator and business owner Michael Polychrones, AAF, AIFD, PFCI, of Michael's Flowers in Springfield, Va., passed away Aug. 30, 2007. He was 72.

An Indiana florist is helping spread the word that flowers in a work environment improve employee efficiency and creativity.

Delaware Valley Floral Group wants to put the romance into its flower brokerage business: As of Sept. 1, Flower Transfer Brokerage is officially known as Transflora, a name the company says is more appealing and less confusing for customers.

Fresh with champion cups in hand, several recent regional design competition winners are putting their design skills to test at the national level at SAF's 2007 Sylvia Cup Design Competition.

August's flooding across the Midwest, most notably in northern Ohio towns,  naturally makes many business owners think, "What would I do?" John Hodapp offers two words of advice: flood insurance.

High prices are not necessarily a hindrance to more sales, according to an article in The New York Times -- in fact, high-ticket items can induce some shoppers.

One member is considering interfacing Quick Books with any Teleflora point of sale system and would like more information and feedback on the subject. Weigh in. 

Do you like E-Brief? Would you like to send something similar to your customers? SAF makes it easy to start an e-mail newsletter, or marketing campaign, with MagnetMail. And it just got even better -- SAF has uploaded new ready-to-use articles to the online library.

Sixty-five percent of readers responding to the previous week's e-poll say they do highlight individual desginers' experience to customers.

For about three-quarters of the retail florists who responded to SAF's 2006 Grandparents Day Survey, sales for the holiday were about the same as the year before (73 percent).