Katy Perry is still fighting with the 1-800-flowers guy. Carl Westcott, 85, a disabled veteran and the founder of the flower delivery company, is locked in a heated legal battle over the $15 million ...
The year was 1999, and the world was about to find out what the new millennium was all about. But if we were going to go out in a Y2K bang, we were going to do it with perhaps the best pop music ever ...
As sports betting became ubiquitous, so did one phone number: 1-800-Gambler.
Big-time landlords have begun surrendering office buildings and other struggling properties to lenders this year, when just a few years ago they were fetching sky-high values amid super-low rates.
A national group fighting gambling addiction lost control of the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline on Monday after a New Jersey court agreed to give it back to a locally run nonprofit, which first launched the ...
The National Council for Problem Gambling (NCPG) Monday lost access to operating the 1-800-GAMBLER problem gambling hotline after a New Jersey judge ruled that control of the number will go back to ...
The XB-1 "Baby Boom" has taken its first steps toward reviving supersonic commercial flight. As a scaled-down prototype, it’s designed to test the tech that will power the full-sized Boom Overture, a ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a $1.6 billion tax-cut package that is dominated by eliminating a commercial-lease tax and providing sales-tax breaks on back-to-school items, hurricane-preparedness ...
Entrepreneurs get a lot of attention for their origin stories, and rightly so. The spark of inspiration, the drive, and their willingness to take risks are all traits that deserve recognition. It ...
This is just one of the stories from our “I’ve Always Wondered” series, where we tackle all of your questions about the world of business, no matter how big or small. Ever wondered if recycling is ...
Almost 40 years ago when 800 phone numbers that spelled something were all the rage, Jim McCann transformed his chain of New York flower shops into what became the national chain 1-800-Flowers. It’s ...
May is always a big month at 1-800-Flowers.com due to Mother’s Day, but this year the company made bigger news, naming a former executive at The Home Depot as CEO and ending the long run of the ...