The thorns and roses of the flower business

  • 2010-04-01
  • By Alina Lisina
RIGA - When you search under ‘flower business’ in the Yellow Pages, you get over 700 companies in Latvia offering you to buy flowers. The Baltic Times decided to find out if this business is so profitable, as well as popular.Most flowers sold in Latvia are imported from Western Europe. They come mainly from Holland, then Poland, Spain and other countries. The chance to get local flowers is found only if you go to a market and buy from some elderly woman selling her flowers from her garden. The price for such flowers is 20-50 percent lower too, but the offer depends on the ...
 
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