Aalsmeer Flower Auction (Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer) is a flower auction, located in Aalsmeer

Aalsmeer

Aalsmeer is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its name is derived from the Dutch for eel and lake . Aalsmeer is bordered by the Westeinderplassen lake, the largest open water of the Randstad, and the Ringvaart Canal...

, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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It is the largest flower auction in the world. The auction building of the flower auction in Aalsmeer is the 4th largest building in the world, in terms of floorspace, covering 990,000 m² (10.6 million sq ft). Flowers from all over the world (Europe

Europe

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, Colombia

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, Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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, etc) are traded on a daily basis at the Aalsmeer facilities.
Around 20 million flowers are sold daily with a 10% increase around special days such as valentines day and Mothers day. There flowers are subjected to around 30 check so they can be graded on a scale (A1, A2 and B).

On January 1, 2008 the auction merged with their biggest competitor FloraHolland.