Film of FTD's 50th Anniversary Convention -Cobo Hall 1960

**Pam** · March-05-17, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by archfan

The new headquarters was one of the first buildings in the new urban renewal zone in Corktown, in the 900 block of W. Lafayette. That building was replaced by the Greyhound station. They moved out to 29200 Northwestern Highway in Southfield in 1985. That building is still there.

This has a list of all their Detroit HQs: http://www.ftdi.net/newsletter/October2009.pdf

Corktown reference: http://corktownhistory.blogspot.com/...1_archive.html

Photo of the 1960 building: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...iew=1up;seq=58

Thanks for the info. Does anyone know why the company ended up leaving Michigan?
The Wiki page says the HQ is now in Illinois.

**EastsideAl** · March-05-17, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by Pam

Thanks for the info. Does anyone know why the company ended up leaving Michigan?
The Wiki page says the HQ is now in Illinois.

The move happened soon after FTD, which had been a non-profit cooperative of independent florists, was bought out by a big hedge fund and turned into a for-profit company. A few years after the move it was taken public. It's been sold and resold, taken private and public, several times since then. Since 2013 its been an independent publicly traded company.

http://www.ftdcompanies.com/history