Friday, February 13, 2009

Happy hearts and flowers day!

Did You Know?

Looking for Love
188 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion. (This total excludes packaged kids valentines for classroom exchanges.) (Source: Hallmark research)
Research reveals that more than half of the U.S. population celebrates Valentine's Day by purchasing a greeting card.
Be Mine
2.2 million marriages take place in the United States annually. That breaks down to more than 6,000 a day.
The estimated U.S. median ages at first marriage for women and men are 25.3 and 27.1 respectively, in 2005.
57% and 60% of American women and men, respectively, are 15 or older and currently married.
Candy is Dandy!
1,241: The number of locations producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2004. These establishments employed 43,322 people. The per capita consumption of candy by Americans in 2005 was 25.7 pounds.

Flowers
The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut flowers in 2005 for all flower-producing operations with $100,000 or more in sales was $397 million.
Among all types of cut flowers, roses were third in receipts ($39 million)to lilies ($76.9 million) and tulips ($39.1 million).
Jewelry
There were 28,772 jewelry stores in the United States in 2004. Jewelry stores offer engagement, wedding and other rings to lovers of all ages. In February 2006, these stores sold $2.6 billion worth of merchandise.

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