At the push button of a clit , three Dutch propagator officially meld into one raw company last Tuesday . Under the Plantise sword lily with a combined glasshouse land area of 56 hectares , the caller has become one of the biggest players in the propagation industry . " To make the merger a success , we had to move from three class business to one family " , say Ilone Ammerlaan , director of the caller .
It was a gay daylight last Tuesday when the merger of Dutch propagator Van der Lugt , Leo Ammerlaan and the Grow Group in Plantise was officially confirmed . Plantise acquire twelvemonth - round on 56 hectares of glasshouse area - spread across seven locations - organic and regular vegetables and cosmetic plants for the Dutch and foreign markets . The new compounding will have a turnover of more than 75 million euros annually . In addition to the Dutch branches , Plantise also has belongings in , Hungary , France , Tunisia , South Africa and the Philippines , and the company is looking to achieving international growth .
The result might be impressive - but merging three family company into one is not an easy task . Integrating these concern into one workable whole takes some clock time . Ilone Ammerlaan , who has been appointed as director , compares it to transition from go out to marriage , with each political party contributing its own identicalness in all area . “ We were dealing with three different finance section , three different HRM system , three logistics departments , and so on . There are three of everything . To make the merger a succeeder , we had to move from three phratry businesses to one kinsfolk . "
Stable baseThat also explain why the initial uniting date , October 2018 , was postponed by a year . The company favour to take their time and to verify the stand is stable . The unlike department are united now at the young question agency ( until last calendar month the destination of Leo Ammerlaan ) at the Irisweg in Bleiswijk , where also the various organization have been united into one Plantise systems .
The gens , websites and individual appearing of the three have made room for the ' Plantise purple ' . “ We first dally with the estimation of keeping our own name until 2021 , but we do n’t do that anyway . You have to go for it completely . "
adult playerAs cite before , Plantise now is one of the handsome disseminator in the existence . “ Perhaps the john of the flora grower is keeping the highest possible employment pace . Thanks to the merger , we can straightaway handle bigger orders , but the challenge of keeping all meters occupied is not get smaller . Propagating from come and carving remains our focus in the vegetables , blossom and agrarian crop , but we do not exclude product grouping . Ultimately , the client determine . "
International activitiesIn their own Word of God , apply focus is therefore very significant . “ It is authoritative to be able to carry on to serve the ever - growing customer . Moreover , that customer is increasingly abroad ; due to an growth in scale , the last telephone number of customer in their own land is only decreasing . This merger makes such a focusing possible . At the same sentence , we look ahead and beyond Europe ’s borders . In addition to focusing on live foreign locations , we are investigating where the opportunities lie in globally . ”
Future of organicIlone express that its warm marketplace berth earmark Plantise to indue more in R&D in purchase order to develop novel ware - market combinations . “ We expect even more increase in constituent plant life and ornamental plant life . In this we are at the vanguard of the reformist position that we already have . And thanks to the complementarity of the three companies that make up Plantise , we are , more than ever , able to bid the high quality vegetable and floricultural production all yr around . We require to be a good employer for all our employees - whether they are in permanent or temporary exercise - and offer them a pleasant working surround in which everyone is given the chance to fully develop . "
It might be clear : the constitutive production in Naaldwijk ( formerly Grow Group ) remain significant . Whether full switching is the hereafter and whether the area of organic production in the Netherlands will develop speedily remains to be seen . “ About four eld ago I thought it would go quicker , but that is disappointing . Ultimately , the consumer has to give for it and if we do n’t get it that way , it will be difficult . In the Netherlands , constitutive in the supermarket barely pay off ( as of yet ) , while some other countries , such as Switzerland or Denmark , are much further forward . A much larger part of the polish there is open ground and the consumer is more bio - apt . But on the other hand , not everything take to become organic . Organic production also teaches non - organic growers to grow more and more sustainably , while at the same time the market invite that impulse from society and the increasingly strict laws and regulation . ”
200 years of experiencePlantise ’s direction lie of five penis from the merger partners . Ilone Ammerlaan has been nominate chief operating officer and Harry van der Linden CFO . Plantise ’s head spot is located at Irisweg 40 in Bleiswijk . Plantise has 190 lasting employee and 400 FTEs in a flexible plate . The merger unites more than 200 years of flora breeder experience . In the last place ; it is hop that a merger will result in a sort of cross - fertilization and that the increase in exfoliation and internationalisation will open new growth prospect for employees .
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