Phytosanitary Systems & Trade Facilitation: perspectives from the flower industry (September 2016)

BREXIT: unsettling perspectives for floriculture businesses in the EU and worldwide

In an ever increasingly competitive and global business environment, the news of the outcome of last week’s referendum on UK’s membership of the EU has hit particularly hard companies operating in the trade and distribution of cut flowers and plants on the European market.

Ciopora-Understanding the implications of the Global Village

Flowers, once seen as a seasonal product in European markets, have become an all year round commoditised product. It is nowadays standard to harvest a rose in Kenya today and for it to be delivered through a complex logistical network to a customer’s home almost anywhere in the world within 24 hours.