Aalsmeer Flower Auction
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Coordinates: 52°15′27″N 4°47′12″E / 52.2575°N 4.78667°E
Aalsmeer Flower Auction (Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer) is a flower auction, located in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands.
It is the largest flower auction in the world. The auction building of the flower auction in Aalsmeer is the second largest building in the world, in terms of floorspace, covering 990,000 m² (10.6 million sq ft).[1] Flowers from all over the world (Europe, Colombia, Ethiopia, etc) are traded on a daily basis at the Aalsmeer facilities.
On January 1, 2008 the auction merged with their biggest competitor FloraHolland.
[edit] References
- ^ "Aalsmeer information". http://www.aalsmeer.nl/00004.asp. Retrieved on 2008-01-24.
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