
From fashion internships to the C-suite at Bellesa, Amy Garfinkle has learned to grow a consumer brand in a category where ordinary marketing channels come with extraordinary constraints.
FTD began as a clever workaround for flowers that could not survive a train ride. Today, its real product is still the handoff - coordinating emotion, ecommerce and a local florist before the moment passes.
A Manhattan flower shop turned a toll-free number into one of e-commerce’s earliest brands. Fifty years later, 1-800-FLOWERS is trying to make 17 businesses, 3,900 employees and millions of gifting relationships bloom as one.