Aalsmeer Flower Auction
Horticultural event in the Netherlands
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Aalsmeer Flower Auction ( Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer ) is a flower auction that takes place in Aalsmeer , Netherlands . It is the largest flower auction in the world. The Aalsmeer Flower Auction building is the fourth largest building by footprint in the world, covering 518,000 square metres (5,580,000 sq ft; 128 acres) . [1] [2] Flowers from all over the world — Europe , Israel , Ecuador , Colombia , Ethiopia , Kenya , and other countries — are traded every day in this gigantic building. Around 43 million flowers are sold daily. [3] This increases by around 15 percent around special days such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day . Their flowers are subjected to around 30 quality checks so that they can be graded on a scale (A1, A2 and B).
The auction is set up as a Dutch auction in which the price starts high and works its way down. Bidders get only a few seconds to bid on the flowers before they are sold and passed on to the new owner. On 1 January 2008, the auction company merged with its biggest competitor Royal FloraHolland . [4]
In 2021 the organiser of the auction, Royal Flora Holland, acquired three companies that specialise in the transportation of flowers and plants: De Winter, Van Marrewijk (Wematrans) and Van Zaal. They were combined into a new transportation company called Floriway. [5]
References
- ↑ "Aalsmeer information" . Archived from the original on 2008-01-02 . Retrieved 2008-01-24 .
- ↑ Schuetze, Christopher F. (17 December 2014). "NY Times Post" . The New York Times .
- ↑ "VisitAaslmeer" . Retrieved 2022-02-15 .
- ↑ Flower Auction (18 October 2018). "European Waterways" . Archived from the original on 2020-08-12.
- ↑ "Royal Flora Holland mag drie vervoerders van bloemen en planten overnemen" [ Royal Flora Holland is given permission to take over three carriers of flowers and plants ] . Transport Online (in Dutch) . Retrieved 2023-01-23 .
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