Teleflora Cause Making Thousands Smile
Teleflora is one of the leading floral services and products company in the world with a network of florist in the thousands. They have taken this network and spearheded a campaign to bring smiles to the thousands of people young and old who need it the most.
The cause which has been around since 2003 and dubbed the Make Someone Smile(R) Week is the floral industry’s leading benevolent project.
Sponsored by Teleflora thousands of Teleflora member florists and community volunteers will help to deliver bouquets in the company’s keepsake Be Happy(R) Mugs to those most in need of a smile – such as hospital patients, senior citizens living in nursing homes and assisted living homes and recipients of Meals-on-Wheels programs. The program will run from Sunday, July 19 through Saturday, July 25.
The program has had measurable success over the last couple of years. The first year, over 8,000 arrangements were delivered throughout North America. The number rose to 17,000 arrangements in the next year.
They couldn’t accomplish this however without there national network of florist who work with wholesalers and growers to secure flower donations while Teleflora donates all of the keepsake Be Happy® mugs.
For more information on Teleflora’s Make Someone Smile(R) Week, and how you can get involved, please visit http://www.teleflora.com/makesomeonesmile or call 310.966.8328.
As a side note this isn’t the only cause Teleflora supports. They have also partnered with the Breast Canser Research Center to offer a Charity Bouquets doanting 15% of the cost of the bouquet to research and also the Stand Up to Cancer foundation donating 20% when you order the Stand up to Cancer bouquet.
No florist is perfect and often consumers get ticked off when they order flowers and don’t get the flowers when they expected. We expect the florist to correct the problem and even offer a little concession, which is usually in order. Teleflora may even be guilty of this at times yet they are willing to lend there brand name and reputation to social causes for the common good.
Maybe not all florist are purely there just to process your order. What do you think?
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