DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.,
March 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- FTD Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FTD), a premier floral and
gifting company, will celebrate the inspiring women in our lives
through a month-long campaign, #ILooktoHer. FTD will conduct
special surprise flower giveaways online and in Chicago and Philadelphia. FTD is encouraging individuals
to post stories and tag women who inspire them using #ILooktoHer on
social media, to help raise awareness about the women in our lives
who have been inspirational.
To kick off the celebrations, FTD will surprise women with
floral bouquets at various locations in downtown Chicago on International Women's Day on
March 8, 2017. Women will be
showered with 5,000 bouquets all over the city from a retro van
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Former
Chicago pro football player
Izzy Idonije will join FTD in
surprising fans with beautiful bouquets.
The celebration will continue at the Philadelphia Flower Show,
where FTD will hand out bouquets at the main exhibition entrance
starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 11, 2017. Recipients can take a
photo with their flowers against a beautiful live floral wall
spelling out #ILooktoHer. They can then post the pictures on social
media, tagging women who inspire them with thankful messages using
the hashtag #ILooktoHer.
During the show, FTD Lead Floral Designer Andrea Ancel will host
a Facebook Live segment as part of the Designer Showcase.
Andrea, along with guest floral designers, interior designers and
artists, will bring to life the exciting floral trends for
2017. After each Designer Showcase segment, FTD will surprise
one women of inspiration within the Philadelphia market with a unique floral
arrangement inspired by one of the guest designers.
"We all have women in our lives who push us to be stronger,
challenge us to be better and motivate us to be everything we are,"
said FTD.com Senior Marketing Director Dan
Spellman. "These are the women we look to and the women
we're celebrating with the tag #ILooktoHer".
Giving a gift of flowers is the perfect way to say 'thank you'
to women. FTD.com offers a variety of artisan-design, handcrafted
bouquets to make it easy to honor the inspiring women in our
lives.
For additional information please visit
http://www.ftd.com/ilooktoher.
About FTD Companies, Inc.
FTD Companies, Inc. is a premier floral and gifting company.
Through our diversified family of brands, we provide floral,
specialty foods, gifts and related products to consumers primarily
in the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom and the Republic of
Ireland. We also provide floral products and services to
retail florists and other retail locations throughout these same
geographies. FTD has been delivering flowers since 1910 and the
highly-recognized FTD® and Interflora® brands are supported by the
iconic Mercury Man logo®, which is
displayed in approximately 40,000 floral shops in nearly 150
countries. In addition to FTD and Interflora, our diversified
portfolio of brands includes the following trademarks: ProFlowers®,
ProPlants®, Shari's Berries®, Personal Creations®, RedEnvelope®,
Flying Flowers®, Flowers Direct™, Ink Cards™, Postagram™ and
Gifts.com™. FTD Companies, Inc. is headquartered in Downers Grove, Ill. For more information,
please visit www.ftdcompanies.com.
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SOURCE FTD Companies, Inc.