What Gems Group does

Gems Group, Inc. is a Florida-incorporated, privately held flower company that distributes fresh-cut flowers and bouquets through major supermarket chains across the United States. The company sells directly to retail partners including Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and Safeway, where end consumers purchase flowers as part of routine grocery shopping. The business is vertically integrated around a farm in the Andes Mountains that the company says provides ideal altitude and weather conditions enabling year-round cultivation and longer-lasting blooms.

The company's product portfolio spans 40+ crops and 376+ flower varieties, which it attributes to more than 50 years of accumulated floral expertise. Its core go-to-market is a wholesale-retail channel model: flowers are cultivated and delivered fresh to grocery store partners for consumer purchase rather than through direct-to-consumer e-commerce. Gems Group also operates a charitable sub-brand, 1 Million Smiles (1MS), which tracks donated bouquets as a measure of social impact and had reached 57,953 documented smiles as of June 29, 2026.

The business is led by co-founder and CEO Carlos Oramas, and the company runs an affiliated network of regional and purpose-driven sub-brands including Great Lakes Living, Lone Star Living, Earth Smart Flowers, and Extending Smiles DL. Gems Group has earned multiple workplace and growth recognitions, including Inc. 5000 in 2025, Sun Sentinel Top Workplaces in 2025, and USA Today Top Workplaces in 2026. No revenue, headcount, funding, or AI/ML capability disclosures are present in the available data.

Name

Gems Group

Legal name

Gems Group, Inc.

Website

https://thegemsgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Gems Group is a US flower company that sells fresh-cut flowers and bouquets through major supermarket chains nationwide, including Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and Safeway, sourcing from a vertically integrated Andes Mountain farm.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Retail Flower Sales: Gems Group sells fresh cut flowers through supermarket distribution channels nationwide. Flowers are sold at retail through partner grocery stores as a consumer packaged good, with customers purchasing flowers as part of their regular shopping experience.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Gems Group cultivates fresh-cut flowers and bouquets on its farm in the Andes Mountains, leveraging 50+ years of floral expertise across 40+ crops and 376+ varieties, and distributes them nationwide through major supermarket retail partners in the United States.

Product overview

Gems Group is a flower company that sells fresh-cut flowers and bouquets at major supermarket chains nationwide. The company operates a farm in the Andes Mountains with over 50 years of floral expertise, offering 40+ crops and 376+ varieties. Their products are delivered fresh to retail stores. Additionally, the company runs the '1 Million Smiles' charitable initiative that donates bouquets to spread happiness, with each donation counting toward a goal of 1 million smiles distributed.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 1 Million Smiles (1MS): A charitable initiative and movement of happiness and connection that donates flower bouquets to create smiles. Each bouquet donated equals one smile tracked toward a goal of 1 million smiles.

Products and services

• Fresh Flowers and Bouquets Fresh-cut flowers and bouquet assortments grown on the Gems Group farm in the Andes Mountains and distributed to retail consumers through major supermarket chains across the United States.

Quantifiable outcome

• 57,953 documented smiles through 1 Million Smiles initiative as of June 2026

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Teleflora: Floral delivery network aggregating independent florists for nationwide gift delivery. Comparable as an established US floral distribution incumbent with national reach, although operating through a florist-network model rather than direct supermarket placement.
• 1-800-FLOWERS.COM: Large, established US flower and gifting retailer operating across multiple brands. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the US floral consumer market, though it competes primarily in e-commerce and gift delivery rather than supermarket bouquet placement.
• ProFlowers: Established online flower and gift retailer under the FTD Companies umbrella. Comparable as a US consumer flower incumbent with similar gift-occasion positioning, though operating through e-commerce rather than in-store supermarket channels.
• FTD (Florists' Transworld Delivery): Legacy floral delivery brand and network serving US gift-occasion flower demand. Comparable as a broad incumbent in US consumer floral, though focused on e-commerce and florist-network delivery rather than supermarket bouquet supply.

Others

• Mayesh Wholesale Florist: US wholesale florist supplying event florists, designers, and retailers with cut flowers. Comparable as a US cut-flower supply chain participant serving retail and event demand, though operating B2B to florists rather than direct-to-supermarket.
• Ball Horticultural Company: Global horticulture company breeding and supplying ornamental plant and cut-flower varieties to growers worldwide. Comparable as an adjacent ecosystem participant enabling the floriculture supply chain from which Gems Group sources varietal expertise.

Direct peers

• Dole plc: Global fresh-produce company with a cut-flower and fresh-vegetable segment that sells through major US supermarket chains. Closely comparable to Gems Group's vertically integrated farm-to-supermarket distribution model in fresh categories.
• Driscoll's: Vertically integrated berry producer that distributes fresh, branded produce through the same US supermarket partners (Albertsons, Kroger, Walmart, Safeway). Highly comparable on farm-to-grocery shelf model, branded positioning, and retailer concentration.
• Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers: Specialty cut-flower and protea grower supplying the US wholesale and supermarket floral channel. Closely comparable as a vertically integrated farm-based cut-flower supplier targeting retail floral programs.

Emerging players

• The Bouqs Co. Direct-to-consumer online flower brand sourcing farm-direct stems for subscription and gift orders. Comparable as an emerging farm-to-consumer flower player competing for the same consumer purchase occasions, though bypassing supermarket retail.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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