Proven Winners To Sponsor Plants for AARP's Annual Event

(DeKalb, Ill.) Proven Winners is proud to announce that they will sponsor ornamental plants for the annual AARP event, Life@50+: A Celebration of You, to be held September 5-7, 2003 at McCormick Place in Chicago. AARP is expecting around 15,000 people to attend the event this fall. Proven Winners will also be exhibiting and speaking at Life@50+.

Mark Broxon, Executive Director for Proven Winners said "Flower gardening is the number one leisure activity in the United States and AARP is a great group for us to work with. AARP members generally are more likely to own their own home and have the time to spend making their gardens beautiful."

Proven Winners plants will be showcased in hundreds of container garden combinations at the event. Proven Winners containers will decorate the common and AARP areas of the exhibit hall. The plant material for the convention will be grown and supplied by Proven Winners partner company, Four Star Greenhouse, in Carleton, Michigan.

"We are thrilled to be able to work with Proven Winners, which is one of the largest suppliers of flowering plants in North America" said Ernest "Chico" Rosemond, AARP's Interim Vice President of Strategic Alliances. Mr. Rosemond also stated "AARP members have great interest in gardening for adding beauty and enjoyment to their lives."

AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to making life better for people 50 and over. They provide information and resources; engage in legislative, regulatory and legal advocacy; assist members in serving their communities; and offer a wide range of unique benefits, special products, and services for their members. These include AARP The Magazine, published bimonthly; AARP Bulletin, their monthly newspaper; AARP Segunda Juventud, a quarterly newspaper in Spanish; NRTA Live and Learn, its quarterly newsletter for 50+ educators; and a Web site, www.aarp.org. AARP, headquartered in Washington, DC, has staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to serve its 35 million members.

About Proven Winners:
Proven Winners is an international marketing cooperative comprised of some of the world's best propagators. As a group, they are dedicated to developing new hybrid color varieties that will perform well for both the grower and consumer. Proven Winners plants are found in garden centers nationwide.

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