{"id":112297,"date":"2026-02-12T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:36:07","slug":"mccarthy-flowers-acquires-shops-in-illinois-florida-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112297\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Flowers acquires shops in Illinois, Florida, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCarthy Flowers, headquartered in Lackawanna County since 1952, is growing, owner and chairman Brian McCarthy announced in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy Group Florists acquired Phillip\u2019s Flowers &amp; Gifts, founded in 1923, which operates six flower shops throughout Elmhurst, Hinsdale, LaGrange Park, Naperville, Westmont and Wheaton \u2014 plus a 30,000-square-foot designer center \u2014 in Illinois. Derek Phillip will remain in his role as regional manager for Phillip\u2019s, which employs more than 150 people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy Group Florists also purchased In Bloom Florist shops in Orlando and Lake Mary, Florida, in addition to Orlando Wholesale Florist, in December, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Scranton-based florists group purchased Peachtree Petals in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy Flowers now operates more than 40 retail flower shops throughout 10 states, CEO Kevin McCarthy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCarthy Flowers, headquartered in Lackawanna County since 1952, is growing, owner and chairman Brian McCarthy announced in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-112297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}