Out of Africa – Interflora Fairtrade flowers

by Kate on March 5, 2010

Fairtrade Flowers
With it being Fairtrade fortnight, I spoke with our own Karen Barnes (Head of Floral Gifting) and Dominic Weston (Head of Food Gifting).

They have been to visit the Osarian Farm in Kenya, where Interflora sources some of its Fairtrade flowers…
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Breast Cancer Care shop window competition 2009

by Kate on January 12, 2010

Breast Cancer Care
Every 11 minutes someone is diagnosed with breast cancer and no one should have to face that alone.

That’s why Interflora continues to support and raise money for the charity Breast Cancer Care…
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Interflora Launches Interflora.ie

by Kate on January 4, 2010

Interflora Ireland

Interflora – the world’s largest flower delivery network has launched a new website for it’s customers in the Republic of Ireland.
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Interflora Announces Partnership with Tesco Direct

by Kate on December 9, 2009

The world’s largest flower delivery network, Interflora, has announced a new partnership with Tesco Direct.
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I’m a Celebrity… Get me Interflora!

by Kate on November 23, 2009

TV celebrity Ant has hinted that he uses Interflora when he needs to make up with his wife…
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Interflora’s new Facebook Page

by Kate on November 19, 2009

Interflora is the UK’s leading flower delivery network and we’re really proud of our service and our brand.
Find us on Facebook
We’ve just launched our brand new Interflora Facebook Page and we’d love you to come and be our friend! Read more >>

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Postal Strike – Interflora deliveries are unaffected!

by Kate on November 3, 2009

Worried about the recent Royal Mail postal strikes? Well don’t be!
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Join us to support Breast Cancer Care

by Kate on October 6, 2009

Breast Cancer CareOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and at Interflora that means it’s fundraising season.

While giving flowers is what we’re best at, this October we also aim to hand over a big donation to Breast Cancer Care – and there are plenty of ways for you to get involved…
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Interflora versus Marks & Spencer court action

by Ann Bampton on September 29, 2009

In response to recent blog postings regarding our legal case with Marks & Spencer we believe Marks & Spencer’s use of our trade mark ‘Interflora’ is a trade mark infringement.  We have seen our advertising costs increase as a result of Google’s Adwords Policy Change. 

The law in the UK is still unclear on whether buying a keyword that matches another firm’s trade mark is lawful and we are determined that this should be clarified once and for all…
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Illegal Free-riding on the Interflora Brand

by Ann Bampton on September 2, 2009

In December 2008 we jointly filed a lawsuit with Interflora Incorporated based in Illinois against Marks and Spencer and Flowers Direct Online for breach of trade mark law.

Prior to May 2008, Google’s policy throughout the whole of Europe was to allow trade mark owners to object to the use of their marks in this way by competitors. This changed in the UK and Ireland in May 2008 but it is still the position in mainland Europe. Just because Google’s AdWords policy allows this kind of advertising, it doesn’t make it legal. Read more >>

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