Talking about big business, we went to the Flora Holland flower (and pot plants) auction..... To give you a sense of the scale of the business, which by the way is farmer owned, here are a couple of stats: total building footprint = 120ha, annual turnover over 4 Billion Euro (thats roughly $10 Billion NZ dollars, or nearly the size of the whole NZ red meat industry), 600 billion pot plants are sold every year, 12,000 billion flowers are sold there every year.
It is highly automated and in essence a logistics business. Now I understand what a dutch auction is ...why don't we sell livestock that way?
Below are couple of photos which show one of the auction rooms in action with three auction clocks running at the same time. There is also a photo of the shop floor where dozens, if not hundreds of people zoom around on their carts and shift the stock to and from the sales rooms.
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