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If you are feeling anxious about Valentine’s Day, spare a thought for those working in the floral industry. For them, this is the busiest time of the year, and it’s largely about just one flower: the ubiquitous red rose.
Ahead of February 14, Gulf News visited Black Tulip Flowers, the region’s largest floral company, to gain an insight into how they deliver millions of Valentine’s Day roses in 35 countries worldwide.
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00:00Today is one of the busiest days for us. People are so busy. We are on 24-7 for the last 3-4 days.
00:07We are preparing for Valentine's Day, which is yearly one of the busiest days for us.
00:12We are supplying not only to the UAE, we are supplying to Far East, Middle East and to other European countries also.
00:22So we are quite busy with preparing for coming Valentine's Day.
00:25I am Abraham Pisani, Group General Manager of Black Tulip Group of Company.
00:30We basically have almost 187 hectares of land producing fresh cut flowers.
00:36Mostly 90% are roses in the African continent.
00:40So from there we are sending flowers to European clients, Far East clients in wholesale bulk basis.
00:50In Dubai and other Middle East, we have our own local set up over there.
00:54And we are making for retail customer, for the supermarkets, hotels, specially designed arrangement as per their own request.
01:02Basically to UAE we are approximately 1,680 for last year and we are targeting for almost 2,000 tons in a year.
01:12We are targeting on that one for next year.
01:15So average we are on 1,750 tons a year.
01:1990% of the hotel industry, big groups like Hyatt Regency, Lee Meridian.
01:2690% of the leading hotel groups we are supplying.
01:30Most of the palaces we are supplying.
01:32Also we have around 960 retail customers in all Emirates for the retail customers.
01:41We are halfway of the Valentine's now.
01:45We already made arrangement with over half a million numbers of roses.
01:51We already made arrangements, bouquets already to the supermarket chains.
01:55Our own stores, we already made it.
01:57Last 2-3 days we already start preparing.
02:00But we are targeting about 1 million roses this year.
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