Management
“Quality is our guideline and we are continuously striving for better”
More than ten years ago the Austrian horticultural families Kainz and Mayer decided to join forces and set up a new business. Their aim …
Ter Laak Orchids elected International Grower of the Year 2018
Ter Laak Orchids has been elected International Grower of the Year 2018! The prestigious award was presented by the International Association of Horticultural Producers …
Royal Lemkes wins 2018 Horticulture Entrepreneurs Prize
Royal Lemkes has won the 2018 Horticulture Entrepreneurs Prize. The trade firm will be entitled to call itself the ambassador of the horticulture industry …
The Spanish government’s sustainability ambitions are a challenge for the future
The seaside resort of Chipiona in the south of Spain is a horticultural enclave with a character all of its own: cut flowers are …
‘Use of analysis of sales and costing data basis for future decisions’
Stan Vander Waal got his first taste of working in horticulture when he was just 13 years old. His father switched from crop and …
German rose grower chooses market development over expansion
The German cut rose sector mainly consists of lots of small companies that grow a wide range of cultivars and focus on private sales. …
‘We are putting sustainability on the map in Central America’
NethWork started at the beginning of 2012 as a cooperation between various Dutch horticultural suppliers wanting to contribute to innovation and the sustainable development …
‘Horticultural businesses are becoming software companies.’
Yuri van Geest wrote the bestseller Exponential Organisations together with Salim Ismail and Mike Malone, in which they expose the power of fast-growing organisations …
‘I’m not such a big fan of spreadsheets.’
‘Internationalisation is crucial to us’, explains Meiny Prins, CEO and co-owner of Priva, and Businesswoman of the Year 2009. ‘Priva is a family-owned and …