Online sales of flowers have increased tremendously worldwide. Consumers turn to online and mobile shopping and with a simple click, a beautiful arrangement is delivered at home. However, keeping your flowers fresh during delivery is essential. Chrysal now comes with a sustainable solution: Arrive Alive® Eco, an eco-friendly and innovative flower packaging that preserves the condition of cut flowers during transport.
Arrive Alive® Eco
Customers expect beautiful and hydrated flowers when delivered. Research conducted by Chrysal even shows that customers expect their flowers to stay beautiful for up to 8,5 days. With Arrive Alive® Eco your flowers will be hydrated during transport and delivery for 3-5 days. And even better; it is totally sustainable.
The Arrive Alive® Eco flower wrap and bag are made from renewable resources and are fully compostable. This means that Arrive Alive® Eco can be thrown away together with your garden and organic waste. The patented horticultural wrap keeps flowers fresh and reduces water use and flower waste in the floral chain.
Sustainability Tipping Point
Sustainability is getting more and more important for customers. Research shows that "sustainability has reached a tipping point. As consumers increasingly embrace social causes, they seek products and brands that align with their values. Nearly six in 10 consumers surveyed are willing to change their shopping habits to reduce environmental impact. Nearly eight in 10 respondents indicate sustainability is important for them. And for those who say it is very/extremely important, over 70 percent would pay a premium of 35 percent, on average, for brands that are sustainable and environmentally responsible." (Source: IBM Institute for Business Value, in association with the National Retail Federation, 2020).
Arrive Alive® Eco is an eco-friendly horticultural wrap that creates a water reservoir for cut flowers and bouquets. So no need for a bucket or vase with water and therefore very user-friendly and has no spillage. Watch this 1-minute instruction video and convince yourself that transporting flowers will not get any easier:
Soak up your Arrive Alive® Eco with Chrysal Professional 2 for a 50% longer vase life and 50% less waste and add one of our sustainable sachets for your customer. With flower food, your customers can take care of their flowers after delivery. It contains all the nutrients flowers need for full flower and bud development. This way your customers can enjoy their beautiful flowers even longer.
Reviews From Pros
Growers, floral distributors, and florists have been enthusiastic about the Arrive Alive® concept for years.
Growers and traders Jet Fresh Flowers experimented with the predecessor of the Eco variety, still just named Arrive Alive® at that time. Check in the article 'Testing Chrysal Arrive Alive® with Jet Fresh Flower Growers' what their opinion was.
Also bloomon works with Arrive Alive® Eco. Director of Sustainability Sibbe Krol comments:
"We are working hard to make our packaging from 100% recycled material and improve circularity. All our paper is FSC-certified and contains recycled material. We also look at the 'Life Cycle Assessment' of the packaging we use. Simply put: how much environmental impact a product has from start to finish.
The Chrysal Arrive Alive® ecological sponge that hydrates our flowers is compostable and has a low impact compared to other materials you can use to keep flowers hydrated. We have also replaced the plastic bags filled with flower food with Chrysal recycled paper and switched from liquid to powder because this has a lower ecological impact (every little bit helps!).
There are many great innovations going on that you as a florist can think about for your packaging. Yet another example: for our bio-bunch, the wrap and flower card are made from recycled flower waste."
Chrysal, Nurturing Beauty
Chrysal is a main driving force in the flower and plant industry and a worldwide market leader in flower food. Whether you grow, transport, sell, or simply enjoy the beauty of cut flowers and potted plants in your own home, Chrysal has products to keep them looking fresh for longer. Through more than 90 years of experience and innovation, a commitment to quality, and an ongoing search for sustainable solutions, we aim to meet our customers’ needs – today and tomorrow. The result? Flowers and plants that last longer, happy customers, and, in the end, a more beautiful world.
