FTD Releases Flagship FTD Mercury Solution
Essential Release Boosts Florist Efficiency

DOWNERS GROVE, IL. (December 6, 2006) - FTD today announced the new version of its flagship floral business solution, FTD Mercury 7.1. Available free to current FTD Mercury users, this version provides numerous new and enhanced features designed to assist florists in saving time, elevating service, and increasing revenue.

"We are extremely proud of this release," said Larry Johnson, Executive Vice President of FTD Mercury Technology. "FTD Mercury is already the premier floral business system, and adding powerful features such as credit card processing over the Internet and Standing Orders makes it even better. These features will provide a new level of efficiency for our florists."

FTD Mercury 7.1 provides new features designed to improve business efficiency. Key features include:

• Standing Orders: Enter an order once, set the recurrence pattern, and let FTD Mercury generate the orders on an as-needed basis.
• Credit card processing over the Internet: Speed up the time it takes authorizing credit cards, and eliminate phone lines.
• Color coding for search results, allowing florists to quickly locate important order information.
• Pickup delivery zone, providing a quick view of all pickup orders.
• Enhanced invoice printing.

FTD Florists using these enhancements will increase business efficiency, customer satisfaction, and competitiveness in today's retail environment.

"Florist needs drive these features," said Johnson. "We're giving them the tools they asked for, and they will quickly discover the benefits."

ABOUT FTD GROUP, INC.
FTD Group, Inc. is a leading provider of floral-related products and services to consumers and retail florists, as well as other retail locations offering floral products, in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland. The business is supported by the highly recognized FTD and Interflora brands. Both brands are supported by the Mercury Man logo, which is displayed in approximately 50,000 floral shops globally. The consumer businesses operate primarily through the www.FTD.COM  Web site in the U.S. and Canada and the www.interflora.co.uk Web site in the U.K. and Ireland and are complemented by the florist businesses, which provide products and services to the independent florist networks.

Press Contact
Megan Buchanan
FTD Inc.
3113 Woodcreek Drive
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Tel: 630-724-6540
Email: mbuchanan@ftdi.com

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