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Valentine's Day
Always observed on February 14
| Approximately 192 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged industry-wide (not including packaged kids’ valentines for classroom exchanges), making Valentine’s Day the second-largest holiday for giving greeting cards. |
| In addition to the United States, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Denmark, and Italy. |
| Hallmark first offered Valentine’s Day cards in 1913 and began producing them in 1916. |
2009 Product News
- Hallmark offers more than 2,000 Valentine’s Day greeting cards, including 99-cent value cards, Shoebox humor cards, Mahogany valentines for African-American consumers, and Hallmark Sinceramente designs with Spanish and bilingual messages designed for Hispanic consumers.
- Hallmark Gold Crown® stores offer the widest variety of unique and innovative cards including new Recordable Cards With Music that allow the sender to record a 10-second message prior to a pre-recorded song, Hallmark (PRODUCT) RED™ Valentine’s Day cards that help save lives in Africa, Cards With Sound that play favorite songs and audio clips from movies and TV shows, Cards With Motion that provide a fully animated two-second scene, Cards with Sound and Lights, and Candy Greeting Cards that come with popular candies.
- A memory maker for Valentine’s Day — three elegant 8 3/4-by-12 3/8-inch cards come with tissue, a gold seal and a slim red box for a unique way to present a special valentine.
- Hallmark has 16 of the hottest licensed characters for classroom valentine exchanges, including Disney’s Princesses, Hannah Montana, Disney Fairies, Disney’s Bolt, Iron Man™, Camp Rock, Cars, High School Musical, Spider-Man™, Barbie™, Mickey Mouse, and more. Some designs come with candy to attach to each card, and some feature 3-D designs.
- Hallmark Gold Crown stores offer a variety of Valentine's Day gifts including animated stuffed animals and Gillham & Grand™ premium chocolates.
- An exclusive Valentine's Day compilation album from Hallmark called Heart & Soul – Celebrating 50 Years of Motown is a collection of classic love songs by some of Motown’s greatest artists, such as Diana Ross, The Commodores and Stevie Wonder.
- New Motown-themed gifts feature songs and lyrics from popular hit songs, and celebrate the 50th anniversary of this classic music brand.
- Valentine gifts such as photo frames, books, pillow cases, novelty gifts and mugs also are available at Hallmark Gold Crown stores.
- Valentine partyware for home, school and office plus stickers and a variety of gift bags, wrap, tissue and add-ons makes one-stop valentine shopping easy.
In Stores
Available at Hallmark Gold Crown® stores nationwide. Use the store locator on Hallmark.com to find the nearest Hallmark Gold Crown store.
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