Aalsmeer Flower Auction

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.

Bidders get only a few seconds to bid on the flowers before they are sold and passed on to the new owner.

On 1 January 2008, the auction company merged with its biggest competitor Royal FloraHolland.

[5] In 2021 the organiser of the auction, Royal Flora Holland, acquired three companies that specialise in the transportation of flowers and plants: De Winter, Van Marrewijk (Wematrans) and Van Zaal.