Tucked inside an industrial park in Alsip, surrounded by belching smokestacks, is the sweetest-smelling place you’re likely to find in the Southland.
Vans Floral Products supplies flowers, plants, vases, ribbons, baskets, statuary and just about everything else they might need to 1,200 retail florists in the Southland, northern Indiana and the South Side of Chicago.
If you order flowers next week for Mother’s Day from a local shop, chances are those flowers are coming from Vans.
And Vans imports its flowers from all over the world.
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