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Consumer Trends

Statistics based on personal consumer purchases (transactions) of fresh flowers, flowering houseplants, green plants and bedding/garden plants (Does not include business purchases):


What are consumers buying?
Outdoor bedding/garden plants: 46%
Fresh flowers: 34%
Flowering/Green houseplants: 20%

Who's buying?
Women 79%
Men 21%
For fresh flowers only: 65% women
35% men

For whom are they buying?
For self: 63%
As gift: 37%
For fresh flowers only: 33% for self
67% as gift

Why are they buying?
Calendar Occasions 14%

Christmas/Chanukah

30%

Mother's Day

24%

Valentine's Day

20%

Easter/Passover

13%

Thanksgiving

6%

Other

7%

Non-Calendar Occasions 86%

No special occasion

50%

Home decoration

13%

Birthday

5%

Sympathy/Memorial

5%

Anniversary/Love

3%

Get well

2%

Other

22%

Data collected by Ipsos-Insight FloralTrends Consumer Tracking Study, 2005.
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