Friday, February 16, 2007

Delhites Hearts bleed with soaring rose prices on Valentine's Day

New Delhi, Feb. 14 (PTI): The price of expressing love got higher this year, as rates of roses went through the roof this Valentine's Day with a single stem costing more than Rs 20 in the national capital.

Delhi, which is India's largest flower market in terms of consumption, received a record supply of about 20-lakh cut roses during this Valentine's Day. "The number of cut roses, which gathered momentum from February 9 for the Valentine's Day, increased to as high as 20 lakh," Delhi-based flower wholesaler said. Prices also went up to Rs 400 per bunch of 20 roses of best quality in Delhi, which has an estimated Rs 50 crore annual business in floriculture, a trader said. However, only a few good-quality long-stemmed cut roses received that amount, and the average wholesale price was in the range of Rs 7.50-10 per cut flower.

Apart from Bangalore and Pune which are the regular suppliers to Delhi market, Hyderabad also sent roses to the capital city this year.

Not only roses, even rates of other flowers also went up this Valentine's season, traders said. Carnation and lilies from Himachal Pradesh are also said to have commanded good price. Red carnation was sold at Rs 150 a bunch comprising 20 cut flowers while Oriental lilies went up as high as Rs 60 per piece and Asiatic lilies received Rs 25-30 per stem. Flowers were also received well in the international market as Indian cut roses quoted up to Rs 15 for the 80cm-long stem variety. However, Indian exporters who received Japan's largest order to any country, an exporter said.

"Demand for roses in Japan does not increase during the Valentine's Day as Japanese prefer to gift chocolates," he said. Even as Indian exporters look forward to overseas market in this season, some countries like Thailand are eyeing the Indian market for a share. Imported Heliconias from Bangkok were sold in the range of Rs 125-175 per piece in Delhi.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Valentines day 2007 special : FloraStand - wholesale Florist in Bangalore offer 10% special discount to its customers for Valentine 2007.

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Rayer Flora (India) Pvt Ltd owned wholesale flower outlet and Florist shop FloraStand (http://www.florastand.com/) in Bangalore offers 10% special discount to its customers for valentine 2007 while celebrating 2nd anniversary.

Bangalore (Bangaluru), February 5, 2007 : Florastand’s, Bangalore Florist in Indiranagar, was started in November 2004 by Rayer Flora (India) Private Limited, grower and exporter of roses, with the a sole objective to delivery farm fresh quality flowers and flower arrangements directly to end customers at best price. Florastand also a wholesale flower outlet of Rayer Flora (India) Private Limited, continues to celebrates 2nd Anniversary by offering 10% special discount to its online customers.

FloraStand with its e-commerce shopping site http://www.florastand.com/ continue to get patronage from customers around the world from countries like US, UK, Australia and other European countries including India. “While our online customer base is growing our customers are coming back again and again after seeing the quality of flowers and the service we provide” according to Mr.V.Mani managing director.

FloraStand had launched several new products to cater to its customers increasing desire for new options to celebrate Valentines day 2007. For all its existing customers, FloraStand had sent emails which give them a special discount of 10% on all their Valentine purchases online at http://www.florastand.com/ .

Rayer Flora (India) Private Limited (www.rayerflora.com), is a grower and exporter of high quality roses with farm in Hosur, 35 KM form Bangalore international airport. Rayer Flora with 3.5 hectares of hi-tech green houses growing annually over 7 million roses of red, pink, yellow, orange, white and bicolor roses, is exporting quality roses and ornamental flowers since 2004, to its customers in Dubai, Sharja, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Beirut, Netherlands and in Singapore. Rayer Flora is planning to export 250,000 red roses for Valentine 2007. Rayer Flora is a registered member of APEDA (Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (India) - www.apeda.com and also registered member of DGFT India, Tamilnadu Horticulture Board.

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