Alabama NewsCenter — Bonnie Plants expands e-commerce efforts with innovative Alabama greenhouse space

By Carla Davis
Alabama NewsCenter

When the nation shut down in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bonnie Plants in rural Union Springs, Alabama, was moving into overdrive, with the launch of its new e-commerce operation.

Since then, online sales have skyrocketed – a whopping 900% increase – and more than 11 million visitors are drawn annually to the website of the company that has become the nation’s largest grower and distributor of vegetable and herb plants for home gardeners.

“We happened to launch our products on our website literally the week before the shutdown,” said Mike Sutterer, president and CEO of Bonnie Plants. “We had no idea that there would be a pandemic. The trend of people wanting to shop online was there, and we knew we had to be in that space. But because of COVID, online shopping exploded, and the way people buy things changed forever.”

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