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Nursery & Floriculture Production
First Research, April 2012, Pages: 10
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Executive Summary
Brief Excerpt from Industry Overview Chapter:
The US nursery and floriculture production industry includes about 50,000 farms with combined annual revenue of about $16 billion. Major companies include Ball Horticultural, Color Spot Nurseries, Griffin Land & Nurseries, and Monrovia Nursery. The industry is fragmented.
Global sales of commercially grown flowers are about $50 billion, according to the International Trade Centre. Developed countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia account for about 90 percent of floriculture product demand.
Retailers of nursery products are covered in the industry profiles for Garden Centers and Farm Supply Stores and Home Centers and Hardware Stores. Florists are covered in a separate industry profile.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Demand is driven by consumer income and commercial real estate construction. The profitability of individual companies depends on anticipating demand for various types of plants, and an efficient distribution system. Large operators have economies of scale in distribution. Small operators can compete successfully by raising specialty plants or serving a local market.
PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Products include flowers and flowering plants, shrubs, food plants like tomatoes, Christmas trees, sod, and seeds. Large commercial growers concentrate on producing container-grown ornamental plants for indoor and outdoor use, including bedding plants (usually grown in flats and transplanted into beds by the end-user); shrubs; and flowering potted plants. Products include annuals like marigolds and petunias; perennials like daylilies and clematis; evergreens like azalea, box wood, pines, spruce, and juniper; tropical flowering plants like Bougainvillea and hibiscus; 'holiday' or 'seasonal' plants...
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