459310 Florists

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments generally known as florists primarily engaged in retailing cut flowers, floral arrangements, and potted plants grown elsewhere. These establishments may prepare the arrangements they sell.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Retailing flowers or nursery stock grown on premises are classified in Industry 11142, Nursery and Floriculture Production.
• Retailing trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod grown elsewhere are classified in Industry 444240, Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Florist

Activities listed under 459310

The Census index assigns these 2 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Florists
• Flower shops, fresh

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 459310

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 459310, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $9 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 4773, 4791, 4781, 4782, 4789, 4799), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 47730Dispensing chemist in specialised storesUK SIC
• 47810Retail sale via stalls and markets of food, beverages and tobacco productsUK SIC
• 47820Retail sale via stalls and markets of textiles, clothing and footwearUK SIC
• 47890Retail sale via stalls and markets of other goodsUK SIC
• 47910Retail sale via mail order houses or via InternetUK SIC
• 47990Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or marketsUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.