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  2. Aalsmeer Flower Auction - Wikipedia

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    The Aalsmeer Flower Auction building is the ninth largest building by floor area in the world, covering 999,000 square metres (10,750,000 sq ft; 247 acres). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Flowers from all over the world — Europe , Israel , Ecuador , Colombia , Ethiopia , Kenya , and other countries — are traded every day in this gigantic building.

  3. Royal FloraHolland - Wikipedia

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    In 1927, the first flowers were auctioned in the north of the Netherlands, in the city of Groningen. The auction was called Flower 's North. The auction has twice moved from place in Groningen, in 1936 and in 1948. In 1978, the auction moved to Eelde, a town nearby that city.

  4. Dutch auction - Wikipedia

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    Dutch flower auctions are considered to be a particularly fast auction form with particularly low transaction costs, and they use an electronic device to lower the price. Sometimes, slower processes such as the bargain basement of Filene's Department Store in the USA, during which the discount on goods was increased over time until the goods ...

  5. Let's go 'Dutch': Auction site seeks lowest bidders - AOL

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  6. Dutch flower industry continues to wither amid coronavirus - AOL

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    Despite picture-perfect spring weather outside, the Dutch flower industry has continued to wilt amid the coronavirus crisis after suffering a sharp initial shock two weeks ago. "The loss is huge ...

  7. Aalsmeer - Wikipedia

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    On 1 January 2008 the Aalsmeer flower auction merged with the united auctions of Naaldwijk and Rijnsburg under the name FloraHolland, and is the largest auction market in the world. [9] The flowers that are grown and sold here are carnations, roses, lilacs, freesias, chrysanthemums, cyclamens, and begonias. [6]

  8. Category:Dutch auction houses - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Dutch auction houses" ... Aalsmeer Flower Auction; R. Royal FloraHolland This page was last edited on 12 July 2019, at 09:16 (UTC). ...

  9. Tulip mania - Wikipedia

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    Here, the Dutch elite thought that having their own special tulip bulbs was a must, and this made the prices go up, even though tulips themselves weren't worth much. [71] In the 17th century, it was unimaginable to most people that something as common as a flower could be worth so much more money than most people earned in a year.