Internet has grown very quickly, and with it also exposure to online fraud. That´s why we at FloraQueen took the required steps to ensure our customers’ personal data is safe in all phases of the buying process and when communicating with us.

It’s been 2 years since we have passed all tests of the McAfee Secure program, which certifies that our customers details are kept with  bullet proof system against identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.

To ensure that we keep up with our good work, FloraQueen’s website is tested and certified daily by the “McAfee Secure” security scan. With this daily check, we can go to bed with the peace of mind that our customers’ data is SAFE. You can see this seal in the header and footer of all our pages.

Besides, our website is PCI compliant. This is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). Any online shop (and offline) that processes credit card information has to be registered with this organzation.

Also, we have in our buying process pages the SSL (Secure Server Socket) certified by GeoTrust, a leading digital certificate provider. Our SSL pages have the highest encryption level.

What is SSL? The SSL protocol allows client/server applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. SSL provides endpoint authentication and communications confidentiality over the Internet using cryptography.

And since FloraQueen was born out of the idea of spreading feelings and smiles across the globe, it has been a few years that we took the steps to ensure this can be done in the most secure way too.

Here at Floraqueen we pride ourselves for being a flower delivery company that is able to send bouquets of flowers to any corner of the world, no matter what it takes.

For instance, we have our trusted florist in Paris Jean Claude, who usually speaks with our French customer service representative, Janitza. They usually talk about last minute changes to orders. Last week, for instance, we had an order coming in from Ukraine that wanted flowers delivered to Paris. In the message sent, there was a petition for trying the knot to the recipient of the bouquet of 24 roses.

Something happened between Paris and Odessa in the meantime. When the florist was about to send his delivery person down the Champs Elysees, we received a message from Ukraine:

”Please change the card message from “Would you marry me” to “I miss you”.

So Janitza went straight to the phone, spoke with Jean Claude, who made his flower delivery man return to the flower shop to change the message.

So, all in all, we now have a relieved ukranian customer, and a happy (bride to be?) woman in Paris.

And for international flower deliveries, we have a team at Floraqueen that can speak: German, French, Spanish, Catalan, English and Italian. Luckily, our Ukranian customer spoke English.

Thank you mums for being so great in the past year! Your loved ones have helped our company to increase our sales by so much, that we want to thank you all. Without you, we wouldn’t be here.

Love from sons/daugthers to mums that are apart has travelled more than 800 thousand kilometers. That same distance, is equal to going to the moon and back! That’s why we’re all over the moon with how much love we’ve been able to spread.

Also, a great thank you goes to the hard working Customer Service team at FQ, who worked extra hours to ensure smooth  running of the operation - well done team!

Now, let’s go back to work…

During the whole weekend the customers kept coming back to Floraqueen, to send a high quality, fresh bouqet to their loved mother on the mother’s day.

Yesterday, the 3rd of May, we celebrated our Mother’s Day here in Spain and we are proud that we made a lot of mums all over Spain happy.

“The Mother’s Day is always a great event for Floraqueen - and together with Valentines Day the most important for us.” says the CEO of Floraqueen.
The goals were set high, but we are happy to announce that the whole Mother’s Day Campaign had a great success, yet and still hasn’t ended in all countries we’re delivering too.

Floraqueen is still doing promotion for the Mother’s Day in Germany, as the germans will celebrate with their mothers on next sunday. Join us on our German Website to send flowers to your mother in Germany.

We are thrilled to start in the last “Mothers Day Weeks” and we’re looking forward to celebrate with you and your mother!

The Floraqueen Team

We want to make mums happy, that’s why we offer special prizes for all mothers day flowers. See our different bouquets especially for mothers day and as always prepared by a local florist next to the receivers house.

Floraqueen helps you to surprise your mother for mothers day 2009:
Send some Mother’s Day Cards and poems

More About Mother’s Day

The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother, and it’s now celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father’s Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

This holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th century, and should not be confused with the early pagan and christian traditions honouring mothers, or with the 16th century celebration of Mothering Sunday, which is also known as Mother’s Day in the UK.

In most countries the Mother’s Day celebration is a recent holiday derived from the original US celebration. Exceptions are, for example, the Mothering Sunday holiday in the UK.

Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins.

One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.

The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day. In addition to Mother’s Day, International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries, most often on March 8.

Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. Examining the trends in Google searches for the term “mother’s day” shows two primary results, the smaller one on the fourth Sunday in Lent, from the British tradition of Mothering Sunday (it is also called ladies day and women’s day), and the larger one on the second Sunday in May.

The extent of the celebrations varies greatly. In some countries, it is potentially offensive to one’s mother not to mark Mother’s Day. In others, it is a little-known festival celebrated mainly by immigrants, or covered by the media as a taste of foreign culture (compare the celebrations of Diwali in the UK and the United States).

Note: Countries that celebrate International Women’s Day are marked with a cross ‘†‘. (Wiki)

As an Online Flower Delivery we have to select our partners wisely to keep up the high quality we guarantee to our customers. Bloomcentral is one of these partners and we are proud to annouce the coorperation between Floraqueen and Bloomendirect. We are sure that both parties will grow together with this collaboration and we are looking forward to announce the good results we are expecting.

What Bloomcentral says:
Through our international flower delivery network of flower shops worldwide you can enjoy fresh flower delivery at discount prices to just about anywhere in the world. We are ready to fill your order no matter what country the flowers are to be delivered to! When you order from FloraQueen international flower delivery, you’re actually ordering from the florist down the street. Your flowers arrive fresh and on time because they are delivered from flower shops next door. You pay for the flowers and not for international deliveries. FloraQueen international flower delivery network is made up of hand-picked florists and flower shops, chosen for their commitment to provide the highest quality, fresh flowers at very competitive prices. Because we know our member flower shops so well, FloraQueen stands behind each and every order with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Every FloraQueen flower delivery is special and we take great care to guarantee the flower shops service for sending flowers that are on time, fresh and fragrant!

BloomenDirect is confident in FloraQueen as we both operate a network of quality-controlled florists designed to ensure a local florist services and delivers your online floral order. As a valued customer of BloomenDirect, you can be confident that your order will not be delivered by mail or some other courier system many miles from the place where you want to send flowers.
To Place an order online for a destination outside of Canada and the Unites States Click on the following link to be escorted to our trusted affiliate - FloraQueen

FloraQueen international flower delivery

If you love Flowers like we in Floraqueen do, you shouldn’t miss to visits the world’s biggest flower garden in Keukenhof , Netherlands. This year they celebrate their 60th anniversary, scince the “Keukenhof” was a small kitchen garden. The biggest sculptured park of flowers in the Netherlands is now a paradise of flowers in all kinds,forms and styles imaginable.

Here at this amazing place, full of fantasy, smell and mystery,

flowers will touch your senses in a different way. Millions of flowers in every style and pattern are shown to the visitor who gets quickly overwhelmed by it’s beauty.

The park opened the 19th of march this year and already received a lot of visitors during the fist period.

Now in spring, the park receives a lot of people from all over the world come to see the approximately 7,000,000 (seven million) flower bulbs, planted annually in the park. We love Flowers, do you? Then don’t miss it, the park is opened until the 21st of May!

Opening times
19 March to 21 May 2009

Daily from 08:00 – 19:30.
(Ticket office closes at 18:00)

The Floraqueen Development Team made it possible. To generate more orders and for a better and finally easier payment process we now integrated the PayPal Payment System in our website.

What does this mean?

With PayPal Floraqueen offers a new secure way of payment to their customers. You can easily pay with your Pay Pal Account which is connected to your bank account, so it is not necessary to put your credit card details in the order form. This makes your payment secure and easy for you!

What is PayPal?

Wikipedia completely describes it

PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

A PayPal account can be funded with an electronic debit from a bank account or by a credit card. The recipient of a PayPal transfer can either request a check from PayPal, establish their own PayPal deposit account or request a transfer to their bank account. PayPal is an example of a payment intermediary service that facilitates worldwide e-commerce.

So it basically makes flower delivery and payment over the internet more secure, more easy and comfortable.

We start into the Passover and Easter Business this week. After a several months of hard team work, the TV full of bad news and Valentines Day we’ll start into the Passover and Easter Week this monday! We prepared some interesting easter ideas for all the people out there who want to surprise their loved ones with a fresh and colourful Easter Bouquet.

Our local florists are doing extra hours to guarantee the same day flower delivery of the flowers you choosed to surprise your family member, girlfriend or maybe your mother on mothers day? Enjoy our fresh flower bouquets and choose the right one for your or the receivers special mood.

On this blog we’ll come up with new gift ideas, decoration and love tips, a flowers guide for the spring and information about the flower business in general. If you’re a Florist, a Flower Fan or just a happy customer feel free to join us here on the official Floraqueen Blog. Stay updated with recent news, tips and tricks written by us, the professionals inside the flower business.

Please leave your comments and suggestions, feel free to contact us at any time.

The Floraqueen Team