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Floral

The Floral category focuses on the business of manufacturing, distributing, and marketing products related to flowers, foliages and decorative botanicals.

Submit sites whose primary focus is the manufacturing, distributing and marketing of floral products.

Sites generally not listed in this category:

Online shopping: Sites that exist primarily to sell goods and services directly to the consumer should be listed in the Shopping category. See the Shopping category description for more detail.
Sites that focus on providing information to consumers are listed under Home: Consumer Information. See the Consumer Information FAQ for more information.
Local businesses: sites for companies serving a very limited geographic area -- like a single state (or equivalent), city or metro area -- should be submitted to the Regional category.

Chats and Forums

Contains newsletters, newsgroups, forums, message boards, and chat rooms which discuss broad related topics for growers, importers, wholesalers and retailers of floral products.

Consulting

This category lists firms that offer expertise and knowledge in aspects of the floral trade.

Education and Training

This category lists institutes, companies and individuals that provide education and training to the floral industry.

Please submit only sites of institutes, companies and individuals that primarily offer education and training to the floral industry.

Floral design education sites should be submitted to the most appropriate sub-category of Arts/Crafts/Flowers/Education.

Flowers and Foliages

These categories list producers of flowers, foliages and related botanical materials sold by the floral trade.

Please submit your site to the most appropriate sub-category based on primary material type.

Materials and Supplies

This category lists manufacturers that produce flower care and design-related products and supplies used primarily in conjunction with the floral trade.

Please submit sites of manufacturers of support materials and supplies used primarily in conjunction with the floral trade and the creation of floral arrangements.

Companies which primarily offer wholesale and/or distribution for resale only of these products should be submitted to Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Floral/Materials_and_Supplies/Wholesale_and_Distribution/.

News and Media

This category lists sites of news services, newspapers, books, magazines and e-zines that primarily focus on the floral industry.

Relay

This category is for sites of companies offering networks which transfer floral orders to retail florists for fulfillment.

Please submit only sites which offer networks for the exchange or transfer of floral orders from consumers to florists or from florists to florists. Sites offering direct sales to consumers should be submitted to the most appropriate Shopping/Flowers and/or Regional category.

Sites which primarily provide affiliate resale of floral relay, wire service and products for delivery by a third party will not be listed in the directory. For further information, please read here.

Wholesale and Distribution

This category contains sites of companies whose primary focus is to purchase flowers and related supplies from producers and manufacturers and to sell them to re-sellers in bulk.
The wholesaling process is an intermediate step in the distribution of merchandise. Wholesalers are organized to sell or arrange the purchase of sale of (a) goods for resale (i.e. goods sold to other wholesalers or retailers), (b) capital or durable non-consumer goods, and (c) raw and intermediate materials and supplies used in production.

Please submit only sites of companies that offer wholesale and/or distribution of a substantial range of types of floral products and supplies.

Sites which primarily focus on a single type of product, (i.e. fresh cut, artificial and silk, or dried and preserved ) should be submitted to the most appropriate sub-category.

Companies that also sell to the general public will be considered in this category only if those sales are a MINOR part of company''s trading. Double listing in both Shopping/ and other Business/ categories will be extremely rare and considered on a case by case basis.

NO company whose primary focus is to sell to the general public will be listed in Wholesale/.