Download or read book Profile of the Retail Florist Industry, 1964 (Classic Reprint) written by Nick Havas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Profile of the Retail Florist Industry, 1964 The retail florist industry is comprised mainly of small, but hardy, businesses, in contrast to the trend towards consolidation and bigness in other retail industries. Current estimates indicate that there are about florists in the United States, and they account for sales in excess of a billion dollars annually. Two out of every three florists have businesses With annual sales of less than these sales represent less than one-third of total sales of the industry. Nearly a fourth of the businesses are of medium size; their annual sales of to account for 30 percent of total sales. About one out of nine florists has annual sales of or more and is classified large or very large. However, this relatively small number of florists accounts for nearly 40 percent of the industry's sales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.