Archive for the ‘Flower Industry’ Category

Barcodes For Flowers – Step 1

July 16th 2009 by LF | No Comments

As announced by the Floral Industry and discussed in our previous post on Billy Balls, we are moving toward product and box barcodes on cut flower products by 2010.  So let’s look at the first milestone and see what needs to be done to be ready.  According to the plan the first step  is for all [...]

The Art of Cut Flower Speculation

July 10th 2009 by LF | 1 Comment

When you think about it, how many products do you buy that are guaranteed to become worthless in a week or two? Sure that steak you bought needs to be eaten soon – but you could freeze it. And yes, Christmas trees are not too valuable on December 26 th – but that only happens [...]

Barcoded Billy Balls?

June 23rd 2009 by LF | 2 Comments

Wholesale Billy Balls

The wholesale flower industry is joining the rest of the consumer products community with the latest inititive by the GS1-US to barcode cut flowers and their packaging.  One of the last holdouts in the consumer products world, flower growers, importers, and wholesalers will be moving toward a June 2010 target to add a [...]

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