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How many flower and gift shops are in Saudi Arabia?

Florists and gift shops.

24.7K

active registrations list flower & gift shops activities — 1.7% of classified registrations.

Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep

24,711 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list flower & gift shops activities as of 16 September 2026 — 1.7% of all classified registrations, the 40th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.

3,933 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +4.5% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.

Riyadh (7,027), Jeddah (3,890), Makkah (2,587) lead. Relative to its size, Makkah is the most concentrated: flower and gift shops make up 2.1× the share they hold nationally.

34.6% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.

Active registrations
24,711
1.7% of classified CRs
Registered in 2025
3,933
+4.5% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
Companies
34.6%
8,557 of 24,711
Median company capital
SAR 100k
Paid-up, main registrations
By city

Where flower and gift shops are registered

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Column height: flower and gift shops by city · select a highlighted city for its page

Leading cities

Registrations, with concentration vs the national average

  1. Riyadh7,0270.9×
  2. Jeddah3,8901.4×
  3. Makkah2,5872.1×
  4. Madinah1,9352.0×
  5. Dammam8860.8×
  6. Taif6061.1×
  7. Khobar4830.9×
  8. Tabuk4161.0×
  9. Buraydah3940.6×
  10. Najran3520.5×

Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.

Flower & gift shops: registrations by year of creation

Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.

By region

Active registrations in the sector

  1. Riyadh7,800
  2. Makkah7,513
  3. Eastern Province2,634
  4. Madinah2,241
  5. Asir1,067
  6. Jazan782
  7. Qassim739
  8. Tabuk518
  9. Najran418
  10. Hail357
  11. Al Jouf302
  12. Northern Borders211
  13. Al Baha128

Most common activities

Registrations listing each national activity code

  1. Retail of flowers12,817Activity code 477352
  2. Retail of gifts11,894Activity code 477361

Business structures

Legal form of registrations in the sector

  1. Sole proprietorship16,15165.4%
  2. LLC8,36833.9%
  3. JSC1240.5%
  4. SJSC310.1%
  5. General partnership190.1%
  6. Limited partnership150.1%
  7. GCC branch3<0.1%

Flower & gift shops by city

Riyadh (7,027)Jeddah (3,890)Makkah (2,587)Madinah (1,935)Dammam (886)Taif (606)Khobar (483)Tabuk (416)Buraydah (394)Najran (352)Khamis Mushait (350)Hail (297)

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FAQs

Common questions

How many flower and gift shops are there in Saudi Arabia?

24,711 active commercial registrations list flower & gift shops activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.

Which city has the most flower and gift shops?

Riyadh, with 7,027 — 28.4% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 3,890.

Is the number of flower and gift shops growing?

3,933 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +4.5% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.

Can a foreign investor set up in flower & gift shops in Saudi Arabia?

Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.

Source & method

Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.

Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.

Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.

Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.

No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.

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