Teleflora’s Lone Star Unit announced today that it will join thousands of Teleflora florist across the United States for the 2006 Make Someone Smile Week program, the floral industry’s leading benevolent project. 600 Be Happy mugs will be filled with flowers donated by local wholesalers and distributed in the Kingwood, Humble, Porter, Friendswood and Houston area. The Lone Star Unit will donate their time and design all the lovely floral arrangements in the mugs and personally deliver them.

Flowers of Kingwood’s Laura Williams and Nora Cisneros created and delivered 40 Smile arrangements for the Kingwood area July 19, 2006. Flowers of Kingwood is Top 500 in Teleflora.

Developed by Teleflora in 2003, Make Someone Smile Week has grown to become one of the floral industry’s most successful cause-related initiatives in North America. Last year’s program spanned 325 cities throughout the United States and Canada, and involved 2,500 florists who donated 25,000 hours of their time. Teleflora’s program delivered 23,000 floral arrangements to those in need of a smile.