Daily sourcing
Our buyers stand at the clock every morning from 04:00. What you order before 14:00 is bought the next auction day and shipped the same night.
Aalsmeer clock live · 3,412 lots traded today
Dutch flowers on every table, anywhere in the world.
Bloemveld International has been buying, packing and shipping cut flowers and potted plants from Aalsmeer since 1978. One order desk, an unbroken cold chain and a fleet that leaves six nights a week.
Clock prices — today, 06:40 CET
Live
Tulip 'Strong Gold'50 cm · bunch of 10
€ 2.86
▲ 4.1%
Gerbera Mini Mix45 cm · bunch of 25
€ 4.15
▲ 1.7%
Freesia 'Blue Heaven'55 cm · bunch of 20
€ 3.42
▼ 0.8%
Eucalyptus Cinerea60 cm · bunch of 5
€ 5.90
▲ 2.3%
+2 °C to +5 °CCold chain, door to door
41 trucks tonightDeparting Aalsmeer 21:00
0Years on the Aalsmeer floor
0Countries served weekly
0+Varieties in the catalogue
0%On-time delivery, 2025 YTD
What we do
One partner between the grower and your shop floor
We buy at the clock and directly from 340 growers, then handle everything that stands between a fresh stem and your customer: grading, packing, paperwork and temperature-controlled transport.
Unbroken cold chain
Pre-cooling at 2 °C, conditioned buffer cells in Aalsmeer and Rotterdam, and multi-temperature trailers with live sensor logging.
Export documentation
Phytosanitary certificates, EUR.1, CITES where required and customs pre-clearance for the UK, Norway, Switzerland and the Gulf.
Packing & private label
Bouquet lines, sleeving, barcoding and your own artwork. Retail-ready pallets built to your planogram, MSU or Danish trolley.
Programme planning
Fixed weekly volumes at agreed prices for supermarket and e-commerce programmes, planned up to twelve months ahead with our growers.
One account manager
A named contact who knows your market, answers in your language and picks up the phone before 05:00 when the clock surprises everyone.
How it works
From auction clock to your cooler in 36 hours
A fixed rhythm that hundreds of florists, wholesalers and retail chains plan their week around.
You order before 14:00 CET
Through the web portal, EDI, or simply by mailing your account manager. Standing orders run automatically.
We buy at 04:00 the next morning
Clock purchase plus direct grower contracts, graded and checked on stem length, ripeness and vase life.
Packed and pre-cooled by 17:00
Sleeved, labelled and stacked to your specification, then pre-cooled to 2 °C in our conditioned cells.
On the road by 21:00
Six departures a week to Germany, France, the UK, Scandinavia, Poland and Italy. Airfreight daily via Schiphol.
Clients
Trusted by buyers in 62 countries
"We run 214 stores and we have never had to explain our planogram twice. The pallets arrive built exactly the way we asked, week after week."
"Vase life is the whole business for us. Since we moved to Bloemveld our shrink dropped from 9% to just under 4% in one season."
"Brexit paperwork used to cost us two days a week. Their export desk now handles all of it and our lorries clear Dover without drama."
Get started
Tell us what you sell. We'll build the programme around it.
Send us a typical week's order list and you'll get a priced proposal, sample photographs and a delivery schedule within two business days — no obligation.
Answer within 2 working days
Including indicative pricing per stem.
Trial pallet available
Test the quality before you commit to volume.
No minimum contract term
Weekly programmes, cancel with 30 days' notice.
Catalogue 2026
Cut flowers, greens and potted plants
1,240 items available year-round, plus seasonal specials from our contracted growers in Aalsmeer, Naaldwijk and the Bollenstreek. Prices below are indicative Aalsmeer clock averages for the current week, excluding packaging and freight.
Ordering
Packaging units and lead times
Everything is quoted per stem or per piece and delivered in standard Dutch trade units. If you need a different pack, our packing hall can build it — from single-variety buckets to finished bouquets in your own sleeve.
- Cut flowers: bunches of 10, 20 or 50 in water buckets on Danish trolleys
- Potted plants: CC shelves, sleeved and trayed per grower standard
- Airfreight: dry-packed in EPS or carton, 12–18 kg per box
- Minimum order value € 750 ex works, € 1,500 for delivered orders
| Order placed | Bought at clock | Departure | Typical arrival |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon before 14:00 | Tue 04:00 | Tue 21:00 | Wed 06:00–14:00 |
| Tue before 14:00 | Wed 04:00 | Wed 21:00 | Thu 06:00–14:00 |
| Wed before 14:00 | Thu 04:00 | Thu 21:00 | Fri 06:00–14:00 |
| Thu before 14:00 | Fri 04:00 | Fri 21:00 | Sat 06:00–14:00 |
| Fri before 12:00 | Sat 04:00 | Sat 18:00 | Mon 06:00–12:00 |
Arrival windows are indicative for Germany, Belgium and northern France. Ask your account manager for a schedule for your postcode.
Need something that isn't listed?
Roughly a third of what we ship is sourced on request — specialty cultivars, dyed and painted product, or a colour we grow only for one client.
Send us your list
Logistics & cold chain
Sixty-two countries, one temperature
Flowers lose a day of vase life for every hour they spend warm. Our whole operation is built around never letting that happen — from the moment a trolley leaves the clock hall to the moment it rolls into your cooler.
2–5 °C, end to end
Pre-cooling cells at both hubs, conditioned loading docks and multi-temperature trailers. Every trailer logs temperature every five minutes; the file is attached to your invoice.
Own fleet of 41 trailers
Scheduled night runs to 18 European hubs. Our drivers are trained on flower handling, not general cargo — trolleys arrive standing, strapped and intact.
Daily airfreight
Consolidated departures from Schiphol to the Gulf, North America and East Asia, with a bonded handling agent on site and same-day AWB documentation.
Network
Scheduled departures
| Corridor | Hubs served | Departures | Transit | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DACH | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Zurich | 6 × week | 9–16 h | Road, conditioned |
| France & Benelux | Lille, Paris-Rungis, Lyon, Brussels | 6 × week | 7–14 h | Road, conditioned |
| United Kingdom | London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow | 5 × week | 16–26 h | Road + ferry, pre-cleared |
| Nordics | Copenhagen, Malmö, Oslo, Stockholm | 4 × week | 18–30 h | Road, conditioned |
| Central Europe | Warsaw, Poznań, Prague, Budapest | 4 × week | 14–24 h | Road, conditioned |
| Italy & Iberia | Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid | 3 × week | 22–34 h | Road, conditioned |
| Gulf & Middle East | Dubai, Doha, Riyadh, Kuwait | 6 × week | 10–14 h | Air, dry-packed |
| North America | New York, Miami, Toronto | 4 × week | 14–20 h | Air, dry-packed |
| East Asia | Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore | 3 × week | 16–22 h | Air, dry-packed |
Schedule valid from 5 January 2026. Public holidays in the destination country may shift a departure by one day; your account manager confirms the calendar each quarter.
Cold chain
What happens to your flowers between 04:00 and 21:00
Intake & inspection — 05:30
Every trolley is checked on stem length, bud stage, foliage damage and Botrytis risk. Rejected lots are re-bought the same morning.
Rehydration — 06:30
Stems are cut and placed in treated water with a post-harvest conditioner matched to the crop.
Packing hall — 09:00 to 16:00
Sleeving, bouquet assembly, barcoding and pallet building at 12 °C, which is cool enough for the product and workable for people.
Pre-cool & load — 17:00
Two hours in a 2 °C cell to pull field heat out of the core, then loading through a sealed dock straight into the trailer.
Live consignment tracking
Every shipment gets a reference like BV-2026-04871. Enter it on our tracking page to see position, door status and the temperature graph.
BV-2026-04871 In transit
Loaded 21:04Now 03:12ETA 06:40
Services
Sourcing, packing and private label
Six thousand square metres of conditioned packing hall, 96 people on the floor in peak weeks, and a bouquet line that produces up to 34,000 finished pieces a day.
Clock buying
Four buyers on the Aalsmeer floor daily, plus access to Rijnsburg and Naaldwijk. We buy against your specification, not against the cheapest lot of the morning — bud stage and stem grade are written into every order line.
Direct grower contracts
340 contracted growers, 61% of them within 40 km of Aalsmeer. Fixed-volume programmes let us hold a price for a season and guarantee availability in weeks when the clock runs short.
Bouquet production
Hand-tied and machine-assisted lines, recipe-controlled, with photographic first-article approval per production run. Typical lead time for a new recipe is nine working days.
Private label & artwork
Your sleeve, your care label, your barcode. We hold artwork files, manage print runs with two Dutch printers and keep four weeks of packaging stock on site for you.
Retail programmes
Weekly volume plans, promotional peaks (Valentine's, Mother's Day, All Saints) planned from September, and a shrink report per store cluster if you share your sell-through data.
E-commerce fulfilment
Single-parcel picking for florist webshops, in your box, with a personalised card. Handover to PostNL and DHL twice daily, cut-off 15:30.
Indicative pricing
Service fees, plainly stated
Product is quoted per stem at clock price plus an agreed margin. Everything else is a service line you can switch on or off — no bundled surcharges hidden in the flower price.
Rates below apply to orders above € 1,500. Contract customers receive a tariff sheet with volume tiers.
| Service | Unit | From |
|---|---|---|
| Standard sleeving | per bunch | € 0.09 |
| Private-label sleeve (your artwork) | per bunch | € 0.14 |
| Bouquet assembly, 5–7 stems | per piece | € 0.62 |
| Bouquet assembly, 12+ stems | per piece | € 1.05 |
| Barcoding & price labelling | per piece | € 0.04 |
| Retail-ready pallet build | per pallet | € 11.50 |
| Phytosanitary certificate | per consignment | € 34.00 |
| Cold storage beyond 24 h | per trolley / day | € 4.20 |
Quality & certification
Vase life is a promise, not a hope
Our quality team of nine tests product every single trading day, and we publish the results to contract customers every month. If a batch fails, it does not leave the building.
MPS-A+
Environmental registration for crop protection, energy, fertiliser and waste.
GLOBALG.A.P. CoC
Chain of custody across our contracted grower base.
ISO 9001:2015
Certified quality management, audited annually by DNV.
Floriculture SI
Member of the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative basket.
Vase-life test protocol
Twelve samples per major variety are pulled every week and kept in our test room at 20 °C, 60% RH, 12 hours of light — the conditions of an average living room, not a laboratory.
| Rose, standard grade | ≥ 8 days |
| Tulip, 5-bulb grade | ≥ 6 days |
| Gerbera | ≥ 9 days |
| Chrysanthemum spray | ≥ 14 days |
| Lily, oriental | ≥ 11 days |
Guaranteed minimums. Batches below the threshold are withdrawn and credited.
Complaints
If something arrives wrong
Photograph the trolley before you break it down, mail the pictures with your consignment number to quality@bloemveld.nl, and you will have an answer the same working day.
- Claims accepted up to 24 hours after delivery.
- Credit note or replacement on the next departure — your choice.
- Every claim is traced back to grower and clock lot, and the grower sees it too.
- 2025 claim rate across all consignments: 0.71%.
Duurzaamheid
Growing beautifully, and honestly
Flowers are a luxury product with a real footprint. We publish ours, we are not proud of all of it, and we have committed to specific numbers by 2030 rather than a vague ambition.
−41%Scope 1 & 2 emissions vs. 2019
94%Packaging recyclable or reused
100%Rainwater-fed cooling at Aalsmeer
2030Target year for a climate-neutral fleet
Fleet
Fourteen of our 41 trailers now run on HVO100. Two electric tractors handle shuttle runs between Aalsmeer and Schiphol. The remaining diesel units are Euro 6 and replaced on a seven-year cycle.
Energy
6,200 solar panels on the packing hall roof cover 68% of annual consumption. Cooling recovers waste heat into the office block, which has had no gas connection since 2023.
Packaging
Paper sleeves as default since 2024, PET only where a retailer insists. All buckets and trolleys are pooled and returned; loss rate is under 3% per rotation.
Roadmap
What we have committed to
2019
Baseline year. First full carbon inventory across scope 1 and 2, verified by an external assessor.
2023
Gas-free offices. Heat pumps and heat recovery replace the last boiler. Solar array extended to 6,200 panels.
2025
Scope 3 measurement. Grower-level footprint data collected for 78% of purchase volume, published in our annual report.
2027
Airfreight transparency. Every quotation will state the transport emissions per stem, so buyers can weigh air against road honestly.
2030
Climate-neutral own operations. Full fleet on renewable fuel or electric, remaining emissions reduced rather than offset.
Annual sustainability report
Our 2025 report (PDF, 48 pages) covers emissions, water, crop protection, packaging and social auditing at grower level.
Request the report
Since 1978
A family firm that never left Aalsmeer
Three generations, one village, and a stubborn belief that the person who buys your flowers should be able to tell you which greenhouse they came from.
Our story
From one van to 41 trailers
Willem Bloemveld bought his first lot at the Aalsmeer clock in March 1978 and drove it to a florist in Düsseldorf the same afternoon in a borrowed Volkswagen van. For eleven years the business was Willem, his wife Truus, and a growing list of German customers who liked that he answered the phone himself.
His daughter Marijke took over in 1996 and made the first real bet on cold chain — three conditioned trailers at a moment when most exporters still loaded flat-bed lorries with a tarpaulin. It cost the company a year of profit and won it the supermarket contracts that still form the backbone of the business.
Today Bloemveld employs 212 people, ships to 62 countries and is run by Marijke's daughter Sanne. The clock hall is a four-minute walk from the office, and someone from the family still stands in it every morning.
1978
Willem Bloemveld registers the company at the Kamer van Koophandel. First customer: Blumen Vogt, Düsseldorf.
1989
First packing hall on Turfstekerstraat, 900 m². Fourteen employees.
1996
Marijke Bloemveld takes over. Investment in three conditioned trailers.
2004
Airfreight desk opens at Schiphol. First shipments to Dubai and Tokyo.
2011
Rotterdam cold hub opens, adding sea-freight consolidation for potted plants.
2018
Bouquet line commissioned. First private-label programme for a Polish retail chain.
2022
Sanne Bloemveld appointed managing director. MPS-A+ achieved.
2026
212 employees, 62 export markets, 3.4 million stems a week.
Management
The people you will actually deal with
SB
Sanne Bloemveld
Managing Director
JB
Joost Bakker
Operations Director
FE
Fatima El Amrani
Head of Quality
PD
Pieter van Dijk
Logistics Manager
LJ
Lotte Jansen
Commercial Manager, DACH
RO
Rachid Ouali
Head of Purchasing
AN
Anke Nauta
Finance Director
DK
Dawid Kruk
Manager, Central Europe
How we work
Four things we do not compromise on
We name the grower
Every consignment note lists the nursery behind each line. If a customer asks where a stem came from, they get an address, not a region.
We quote what it costs
Clock price plus an agreed margin, service lines separately. No fuel surcharge that quietly becomes a profit centre.
We pick up the phone
Between 04:00 and 18:00 CET a human answers, in Dutch, English, German, French or Polish. Voicemail is for the night shift only.
We say no
If the clock is short and the only available quality is poor, we tell you and ship less. A weak week is easier to explain than dead flowers on your shelf.
Werken bij Bloemveld
Early mornings, good people, real product
212 colleagues from 19 nationalities. Free breakfast at 05:00 because someone has to be here when the clock starts, a pension through BPF Groothandel, and flowers to take home on Friday.
CAO Groothandel
Salaries per the collective agreement, plus 8% holiday allowance and a shift supplement.
25 holidays
Plus ADV days for operational roles and a genuinely quiet August.
Training budget
€ 1,200 a year, and Dutch lessons on company time for international colleagues.
Travel & bike
€ 0.23/km, a company bicycle scheme, and a shuttle from Hoofddorp station.
Open vacancies 6 positions
Application
Apply in two minutes
Attach a CV if you have one to hand. If you don't, tell us in a few lines what you have done — we have hired plenty of people who arrived without a polished document.
Newsroom
News & market insights
Clock reports, logistics notices and the occasional opinion from the packing hall. Published roughly twice a month.
Newsletter
The Monday Clock Report
A short weekly mail with clock averages, supply outlook for the coming fortnight and any schedule changes. Around 4,800 subscribers in the trade.
One mail a week. Unsubscribe with one click.
Help centre
Frequently asked questions
Ordering, delivery, claims and paperwork. If your question isn't here, the sales desk answers the phone from 04:00 CET.
€ 750 ex works for collection at Aalsmeer, € 1,500 for a delivered order. Below that we can still help through one of our partner wholesalers, and we are happy to introduce you.
Order before 14:00 CET and we buy the following auction morning, ship that evening and deliver the day after. Standing weekly orders can be adjusted up to 16:00 the day before. For promotional peaks such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day we ask for volume indications six weeks ahead.
New customers start with payment before dispatch or SEPA direct debit. After three months of trading we normally move to 14 days net, subject to a credit check through Atradius. Contract customers with a track record are on 30 days.
Yes — 24 of our 62 markets are outside the EU. We arrange phytosanitary certificates through the NVWA, handle export declarations ourselves and work with pre-clearance agents in the UK, Norway, Switzerland, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Import duties and local inspection fees are for the buyer's account unless agreed otherwise.
Photograph the trolley before breaking it down and email the pictures with the consignment number to quality@bloemveld.nl within 24 hours of delivery. You will get an answer the same working day, and either a credit note or replacement product on the next departure.
Please do. Visitors are welcome on Tuesdays and Thursdays; the tour starts at 06:30 in the clock hall and finishes with breakfast at our office around 09:00. Book at least a week ahead through your account manager — hygiene rules mean we cap the group at eight people.
No. We supply florists, wholesalers, retail chains and e-commerce companies only. If you are looking for flowers as a private buyer, any Dutch florist can order our product for you.
Dutch, English, German, French, Polish and Arabic across the commercial team. Correspondence and documentation are available in Dutch, English and German as standard.
Yes. We support Florecom EDI messages (ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC) and offer a REST API for catalogue, availability and order status. Technical documentation is available on request from it@bloemveld.nl; a typical integration takes three to four weeks.
Still stuck?
Call +31 (0)297 321 840 or send a message — we answer within a few hours on trading days.
Contact us
Track & trace
Where is my consignment?
Enter the reference from your dispatch note — it looks like BV-2026-04871. Temperature logs are attached to every completed shipment.
Documents
CMR, packing list, phyto certificate and invoice are downloadable from the customer portal.
Temperature log
Five-minute intervals for the whole journey, exportable as CSV or PDF.
Night desk
A trailer running late? Call +31 (0)297 321 899 — staffed 20:00 to 06:00 CET.
Offerte aanvragen
Request a quote
Tell us roughly what a normal week looks like for you. You'll get indicative pricing per stem, a delivery schedule for your postcode and photographs of the actual product within two working days.
What happens next
We read it
Usually the same day, always within one working day.
A quote lands in your inbox
Indicative per-stem pricing, service lines and a schedule.
Trial pallet
Optional. One delivery, full quality, no commitment.
Prefer to talk?
Lotte and her team are on the phone from 04:00 CET, and they know what the clock did this morning.
Contact
Talk to a person, not a portal
Aalsmeer head office, Rotterdam cold hub and a night desk that is awake when your lorry is on the road.
Send us a message
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Head office & packing hall
Turfstekerstraat 42
1431 GD Aalsmeer, Netherlands
1431 GD Aalsmeer, Netherlands
Rotterdam cold hub
Waalhaven Zuidzijde 18
3089 JH Rotterdam, Netherlands
3089 JH Rotterdam, Netherlands
Telephone
Sales desk: +31 (0)297 321 840
Night desk (20:00–06:00): +31 (0)297 321 899
Night desk (20:00–06:00): +31 (0)297 321 899
Opening hours
Mon–Fri 04:00–18:00 · Sat 04:00–13:00 · Sun closed
Company details
KvK 34128776 · VAT NL812345678B01
IBAN NL42 RABO 0312 4457 88
IBAN NL42 RABO 0312 4457 88
Privacy statement
Last updated 14 January 2026
Who we are
Bloemveld International B.V., Turfstekerstraat 42, 1431 GD Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, registered with the Kamer van Koophandel under number 34128776, is the controller for the personal data described here.
What we collect
When you use a form on this website we process the name, company, email address, telephone number and the content of your message. When you order from us we additionally process billing and delivery details, VAT and EORI numbers and payment history. Our website logs an abbreviated IP address, browser type and pages visited for security and statistical purposes.
Why we process it
- To answer your request and prepare a quotation (pre-contractual measures at your request).
- To perform a contract: order handling, transport, invoicing and after-sales.
- To comply with legal obligations, including tax retention and phytosanitary export records.
- With your consent, to send you our weekly Clock Report newsletter.
How long we keep it
Quotation requests that do not lead to a contract are deleted after 24 months. Applications are deleted four weeks after the procedure closes, unless you allow us to keep them for a year. Financial records are kept for seven years as Dutch tax law requires.
Who else sees it
Transport partners, customs agents and the NVWA receive only the data needed to move and clear your consignment. Our hosting and mail providers are established within the European Union and act as processors under a data-processing agreement. We do not sell personal data and we do not use it for profiling.
Your rights
You may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction or portability of your data, and object to processing based on our legitimate interest. Write to privacy@bloemveld.nl. If you are not satisfied with our response you can complain to the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens in The Hague.
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Terms & conditions
General terms of sale and delivery, version 4.2, in force from 1 January 2026
1. Applicability
These conditions apply to every offer, order and agreement between Bloemveld International B.V. and its buyers. In addition, the Handelsvoorwaarden of the Vereniging van Groothandelaren in Bloemkwekerijprodukten (VGB) apply; where the two conflict, these conditions prevail. Buyer's own purchasing conditions are expressly rejected.
2. Offers and prices
All offers are without obligation and based on the auction price at the moment of purchase. Because clock prices move daily, quoted prices are indicative unless a fixed-price programme has been agreed in writing. Prices are exclusive of VAT, packaging, transport and any statutory levies.
3. Delivery
Delivery terms are indicative and are agreed per consignment under Incoterms 2020. Exceeding a delivery term does not entitle the buyer to compensation or dissolution unless the delay exceeds 48 hours and is attributable to us.
4. Complaints
Visible defects must be reported within 24 hours of delivery, accompanied by photographs of the unopened trolley or box and the consignment reference. Later complaints cannot be assessed, since the condition of a perishable product cannot be established retroactively.
5. Payment
Unless agreed otherwise, invoices are payable within 14 days. After the due date statutory commercial interest under article 6:119a of the Dutch Civil Code is due, together with extrajudicial collection costs of 15% with a minimum of € 150.
6. Retention of title
All delivered goods remain our property until every claim arising from the trading relationship has been paid in full.
7. Liability
Our liability is limited to the invoice value of the consignment concerned, and in any event to the amount paid out by our liability insurer. We are never liable for consequential loss, loss of profit or loss of turnover.
8. Applicable law
Dutch law applies. Disputes are submitted exclusively to the competent court in Amsterdam, unless mandatory law provides otherwise. The Vienna Sales Convention is excluded.