UPS Helps Cupid Spread The Love By Delivering Millions Of Flowers For Valentine’s Day
February 09 2017 - 2:00PM
- 89 Million Flowers Flow Through UPS’s Global Logistics
Network
- Last Minute Cupids Can Ship as Late Monday, February 13th
Business is blooming leading up to Valentine’s Day. To get
flowers, sweets and gifts to consumers and businesses by Feb. 14 it
takes a global logistics network helping Cupid. This year, it’s
estimated that UPS (NYSE:UPS) will deliver more than 89 million
flowers – enough to fill 64 767 Boeing cargo aircraft – to loved
ones around the world.
According to the National Retail Federation, U.S. consumers are
projected to spend $2 billion on flowers and more than $18 billion
on Valentine’s Day gifts.
Many of the tropical flowers and roses originate in Latin
America, primarily Colombia and Ecuador. More than 90% of the
imported flowers will travel through Miami International Airport
(MIA), where UPS is the largest air cargo carrier.
Click here to see how UPS transports flowers from
farm-to-consumer in less than two days.
“Meeting our customers’ needs is at the heart of what we do,”
said Domingo Mendez, Air Cargo marketing manager, UPS Americas
Region. “We understand shipping flowers is a time-sensitive
business. We’re adding 34 temperature-controlled flights to deliver
the 236,000 boxes of blooms expected to flow through our network in
the two weeks prior to Valentine’s Day.”
Vistaflor operates a flower farm in Colombia and depends on UPS
to deliver flowers fast. “We need to provide our customers with the
freshest flowers, so the less time in transit, the better,” said
Victoria Hernandez, sales director at Vistaflor.
The flowers stay fresh in a refrigerated warehouse about the
size of five basketball courts located in the UPS® Air Cargo
facility in Miami, where they are inspected and sorted for travel
to their final destinations.
Procrastinators can ship as late as Monday, Feb. 13 using UPS
Next Day Air® to have gifts arrive on Valentine’s Day. Click here
for the UPS Valentine’s Day Shipping Calendar.
For images and video of UPS’s flowers logistics shipping process
from farm to customer, please visit pressroom.ups.com
About UPS
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including transporting packages and
freight; facilitating international trade, and deploying advanced
technology to more efficiently manage the world of business.
Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries and
territories worldwide. The company can be found on the web at
ups.com® and its corporate blog can be found at longitudes.ups.com.
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Jose Cano
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305-869-8191
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