Aalsmeer Flower Auction

The Cooperative Vereniging " Verenigde Bloemenveilingen Aalsmeer ' (VBA ) UA (short Aalsmeer called ) was until the merger with FloraHolland auction the world's largest organization for flowers. Sales of the 1975 originally upstream of lilac breeders of Aalsmeer archipelago Westeinderplassen founded on good at that time 400,000 m² and co-operative enterprise was about 1.75 billion euros in 2006. More than 5 billion flowers and ornamental plants have an annual turnover in Aalsmeer (ie more than 21 million units every day, 19 million of houseplants ). The approximately 7000 the delivering horticultural holdings came mainly from the Netherlands, but also from distant countries such as Kenya, Israel, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Ecuador. The flowers and plants sold were purchased by more than 1000 wholesalers from all over the world ( focus excessively from Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium).

The auction site has a covered area of ​​approximately 860,000 m² (including the outdoor area of 1.9 million m²) and is the largest covered shopping complex in the world. In the Aalsmeer more than 1,800 people were employed.

In September 2007, a merger with the also Dutch auction FloraHolland Company ( Cooperative Bloemenveiling FloraHolland UA ) was adopted with effect from 1 January 2008, under takeover the company name FloraHolland.

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• Plant Trafficking
• Auction House
• Wholesale company
• Company ( North Holland )
• Aalsmeer