Florist for Sale

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Buying a Florist Business

Buying a florist business is another option from buying a franchise or starting a florist business from the ground up. Certainly Do not buy one without studying the books.

Florists depend on their designs. Will the main designer stay aboard. Will the new clients like you?

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Flower Business News 2010

Last year bad news abounded in the world floral industry. Many Colombian and Ecudorian farms ceised their operations. Floral related operations failed.
A terrible freeze.

Rumor is that overseas growers prefer ship to Europe for Euros. This creates flower shortages in the USA flower market.

Importers/wholesalers must pledge minimum amounts to get the product. Prices are going up for most floral products. The USA economic meltdown has had world wide impact.

Now, In the USA, more florists, wholesalers have closed and the majority have reported lower sales.
Here in South Florida, "the flower supermarket called Field of Flowers" has announced that after loosing 15% sales annually, has acquired a local wholesale operation in town, Trade Winds to lower costs and increase buying power.

Tradewinds is, was one of the last independent South Florida flower wholesalers to local florists. Irony is that the "flower supermarket "Field of Flowers" intended to take business from florists through superior pricing and service, now expects florists to buy from their number one competitor?

Will the South Florida Florist survive the giant flower supermarket, or will this be beneficial to florists and flower entrepreneurs? What do you think?

Personally I say, mass manufacture is inherently evil and at the end inferior and slow compared to individual creativity.

Field of flowers had to close down one of their supermarkets already. Will they survive their "Get Big Philosophy?