Branch-Smith Publishing
120 St. Louis Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76104
Local - 817.882.4120
Toll-free - 800.433.5612
Fax - 817.882.4121
Staff directory




 

Print Publications

For growers:
 GMPRO — Greenhouse
Production & Management,
and Nursery Production
& Management — NMPRO
For garden retailers:
GCP&S — Garden Center
Products & Supplies,
Garden Center Magazine,
and Selling Elegance
 

    

Online Content

Portal for commercial horticulture:
www.GreenBeamPro.com
Blog for garden retailers:
www.OpenRegisterBlog.com
Blog for sustainability:
www.ProjectGreenIndustry.com
Product Directory:
www.GreenBeamPro.com

    

E-mail Delivery

E-News for greenhouses:
 The greEn-Mail
E-News for nurseries:
 The Weekly E-Mail
E-News for independent retailers:
 The Weekly Dirt
E-News for retailers:
 The E-Zone
 

    

Smart360 Delivery

For smart marketers:
 Greenhouse and nursery growers, retailers and landscapers have different needs at different times.
We put our minds to work to help suppliers determine the very best way to reach the right people at the right time with the right marketing message.
 

  
 
Home Grown for Four Generations

     Branch-Smith Publishing grew out of the life of Aaron Smith, a man who was born without arms. He learned to write and type with his toes, earning an attorney's certificate in 1889 and later editing newspapers. In the early 1900s he founded Smith Printing.
     One of Smith's printing accounts was Southern Florist magazine, published by a state association. After it ceased publication during World War I when coal was not available to heat greenhouses, Smith and other investors revived it and published it weekly thereafter.
    When Smith's daughter married Oscar Branch, the business entered a second generation.
 		    
 

    Their son, James, and his wife became the third generation in the business. Today, the business has passed to a fourth generation, including Branch-Smith Publishing president Mike Branch.
    Smith would be proud of the family business he founded. The old Southern Florist has become several distinct monthly publications, each fine-tuned to meet the changing needs of a particular market segment. An All-Industry Product Directory has grown up, and supplements now meet the needs of emerging markets.
     Meanwhile, something called the Internet provides a delivery system for a comprehensive Web site and several weekly e-mails — including the first ever produced for commercial horticulturists.