Interwired Surveys Flower Purchasing Habits.Tokyo, Japan, Jan 31, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Online market researcher Interwired announced on January 31 the results of its latest survey on flower purchasing habits. The company surveyed 3,809 people (male 22% and female 78%) via its DIMSDRIVE Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the service from December 21 to 27. Of the respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. , 67.5% have bought flowers during the past year. Specifically, 45.6% have bought for gifts and 36.1% for themselves. Meanwhile, 32.5% answered that they have not bought any flowers. When asked for whom they bought flowers, 53.1% cited their parents, followed by personal acquaintances and friends (41.4%), business acquaintances and clients (20.0%) and relatives (10.8%). Only 8.5% of the purchasers have bought flowers for their partners. Of those who have bought flowers in the past year, 77.9% said that they purchased at flower shops, 29.8% at supermarkets, and 20.1% from online flower shops. When asked about the benefits of buying from online flower shops, 73.9% mentioned convenience; they do not need to go to a shop. In addition, 62.3% said that they can easily select flowers according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. their budgets and 44.9% replied that they can send fresh flowers to distant places. When asked about what flowers they would be pleased to receive, top three flowers for female respondents are rose, gerbera and tulip tulip [Pers.,=turban], any plant of the large genus Tulipa, hardy, bulbous-rooted members of the family Liliaceae (lily family), indigenous to north temperate regions of the Old World from the Mediterranean to Japan and growing most abundantly on the steppes , while men chose rose, any flower and orchid orchid, popular name for members of the Orchidaceae, a family of perennial herbs widely distributed in both hemispheres. The unusually large family (of some 450 genera and an estimated 10,000 to 17,500 species) includes terrestrial, epiphytic (see epiphyte), and . Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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