Interflora plots TV return after 25-year hiatus

Interflora, the flower retailer, is returning to TV for the first time in 25 years in a bid to reconnect audiences with its "flower experts" and differentiate itself from rival flourists in the sector.

Interflora: TV ads return in time for Mother's Day
Interflora: TV ads return in time for Mother's Day

The TV push, devised by creative agency Kanjo, has been timed to launch in the run up to Mother's Day on 3 April. The ads will carry Interflora's message of being the brand that can be trusted to deliver the occasion's best flowers.

The brand is also planning digital and direct response activity, as well as advertising in Piccadilly Circus.

Interflora will promote its professional florists and their handmade bespoke bouquets.

In recent years database marketing has been the main focus of the brand's marketing activity.

The flower retailer began as a network of 17 florists in the UK in 1923, becoming Interflora in 1953.

Last year (6 October), to cheer up users who posted glum messages. The company sent a bunch of flowers to a selection of the most miserable tweeters in a campaign devised by social media agency We Are Social.

, which it claims is paying Google to promote its own flower business every time someone searches for Interflora.

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