Guide to Florist Distributors and Wholesalers

Floral wholesalers are the key to the success of your floral business. Whether you specialize in live or silk flower arrangements, your wholesale flower distributor will help you fill orders and meet client expectations.

Flower distributors help you fill your clients' needs from prom to weddings to get well to everyday occasions. When you're watching your bottom line, finding florist items, supplies, and wholesales cheap is going to give you the best profit margin.

To find the most reasonably priced florist items supplies:

1. Determine your current floral needs.

2. Project your future floral needs.

3. Determine how large an order your budget will allow.

4. Order in bulk from your wholesale flower distributor for the cheapest prices.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Find flower floral wholesalers

Florists who provide fresh flower arrangements and have a reliable, quality flowers distributor will be able to keep up with client demand and keep arrangements fresh as the day they were picked.

I recommend: Look into Sommer Flowers or Obies Floral. There's also American Floral Distributors or Florabundance for more quality florist wholesalers.

Be knowledgeable about flower distributors and the industry

Get out of the shop, go check out the latest in floral industry design and options. Go check out a convention, go to a market, or visit a floral show to find out what is the latest and greatest with florist product wholesalers.

I recommend: Check out the Wholesale Florist & Florist Supplier Association website for more information on the annual conference, the Management Institute, the Retail Florist of the Year, webinars and the University of Industrial Distribution. The Allied Florists of Houston give a comprehensive list of conventions, markets and floral shows.

Use a special search engine for florist items, supplies, and wholesales cheap

Forget Google or Yahoo. You need a guide to florist distributors that is industry specific.

I recommend: The Ultimate Floral Industry Supply Guide is a great reference point to find any number of items in the floral industry. From business services, to software, to containers, to flowers, to ribbons and balloons, this site is stocked with referral information for retailers, wholesalers and growers. FG Market is another wonderful guide to finding a floral wholesaler.

Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• When choosing flowers distributors, ask questions like: how do they ensure the freshness of their flowers to you? How long will they stay alive after you have received them and/or once they have passed into a client's hands? What countries are the flowers coming from, and are there any conflicts in the countries supplying the floral items?

The official source of Florist Distributors and Wholesalers is
the Florist Distributors and Wholesalers page at Business.com