Ovation Graphics Acquires the Assets of Branch-Smith Printing

By the 1920s, Smith and a group of investors revived Southern Florist magazine, which was discontinued during World War I because no coal was available to heat greenhouses. They published it weekly and set the stage for a burgeoning expansion of business into association publications. By 1954, Aaron’s daughter Carrie Beth and son-in-law Oscar Branch joined the business, incorporating as Branch-Smith.