Aalsmeer Flower Auction

Coordinates: 52°15′27″N 4°47′12″E / 52.25750°N 4.78667°E / 52.25750; 4.78667

Part of the buildings at the Aalsmeer Flower Auction

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 largest building by footprint in the world, covering 518,000m² (5.57 million sq ft; 128 acres).[1] Flowers from all over the world – Europe, Ecuador, Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya and other countries—are traded every day in this gigantic building. Around 20 million flowers are sold daily. 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 January 1, 2008 the auction company merged with its biggest competitor Royal FloraHolland.

References

  1. ↑ "Aalsmeer information". Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-01-24.

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