Meet Proven Winners
Meet Proven Winners
Proven Winners is an international team of experts in horticultural plant and brand development, each of whom makes a substantial contribution to our growing program. In North America the founding members came together in 1992 to form the Proven Winners brand around new and innovative annuals plants. In partnership with one another and a network of international plant breeders and licensees, the founding members provide quality plant material and innovative ideas to support the continued evolution of the Proven Winners brand. Over the years, Proven Winners has expanded across North America and now includes carefully selected license partners who provide high quality, innovative plants in the shrub, perennial, caladium, calla, flower bulb and houseplant markets. To ensure that gardeners are successful with our plants, our brand also includes self-watering containers, high quality soils and fertilizers and planting augers. Home gardeners throughout North America know they can count on Proven Winners to make their gardens beautiful – which is the reason that Proven Winners is the "brand that gardeners trust".
Members
- Henry & Jeff Huntington,
Pleasant View Gardens, Inc. - Tom Smith and Sharon Smith
Four Star Greenhouse, Inc.
Licensees
- AquaPots® Self-Watering Containers
- Classic Caladiums (Proven Winners Heart to Heart Caladiums)
- Garden State Bulb (Proven Winners Packaged Bulbs)
- Nordic Nurseries (Proven Winners Annuals - Western Canada)
- Sobkowich Greenhouses (Proven Winners Annuals - Eastern Canada)
- Spring Meadow Nursery (Proven Winners ColorChoice Flowering Shrubs)
- The Plant Company (Proven Winners leafjoy Houseplants)
- Walters Gardens (Proven Winners Perennials & Art & Sol Mangave)
Breeders
The unique and innovative plants in the Proven Winners line are grown from material bred by a network of top international breeders. Every plant that is chosen to become a Proven Winners has passed a lengthy series of tests lasting 2-3 years to trial the varieties for performance in numerous greenhouse and garden performance situations. This is why very few varieties are selected to become Proven Winners!
Proven Winners Staff
- Mark Broxon, CEO
- Scott Acker, CFO
- Marshall Dirks, VP of Marketing
- Brian Oster, Interim Senior Marketing Director
- Laura Geoghegan, Marketing Manager
- Susan Martin, Head Copy Writer
- Kate Spirgen, Marketing Specialist - Business to Business
- Jeanine Standard, Social Media, and Public Relations
- Annah Vertin, Marketing Specialist
- Heather Wheatley, Marketing Specialist - Business to Consumer
- Cara Widder, Digital Marketing Specialist
- Cindy Meyers, E-Commerce
- Andy Olsen, Data Analyst * Dekalb Facilitator
- Brian Oster, Interim Senior Marketing Director
- Dave Konsoer, VP of Sales
- Kevin Hurd, VP of Product Management
Marketing office:
1600 E Lincoln HWY STE F
DeKalb, IL 60115-4962
815.895.8130: Customer Service - Home Gardeners
815.895.1872: Customer Service - Industry Professionals
Administrative office:
PO Box 1006
Campbell, CA 95009
408.391.1992
Fulfillment Center: (not open to the public)
1600 E Lincoln Highway Suite F
DeKalb, IL 60115
815.991.9692