" In the horticultural industry we tend to work together with a circumscribed number of suppliers of option with unremarkably longtime relationship and why change if things fly the coop well ? Developments like the Corona crisis change the scope of doing business organization . Just as in the consumer human beings also in the B to B world the online job has increased hugely , not just in The Netherlands , also internationally . " Speaking is Bert Strikkers form Alumat Zeeman . He explicate how not only Corona pushes online patronage . " Also , the fact that webshops for the horticultural business become better and better with exculpated exposure , drawing , education and available in the local speech of the customers supported by professional online advise hyperkinetic syndrome to this trend . "
In The Netherlands gardening is really concentrated in a small country with optimum logistic circumstances . This is not the case in many other countries . " Yes , there are belike some arena where horticulture is concentrated , but this does not mean there are no other places where gardening is active , " he says .
" Take France for example . A huge nation with 3 or 4 concentrated areas for gardening , but also in the rest of the country you determine greenhouses all over the country and also , they need to be supplied . However , they do not have easy access to the distributors or middleman concentrated in the few live point . It is often too far forth . This is where professional on - line business for professionals closes the break especially in the areas of reparation , maintenance , and renovation of greenhouses . "
Where freshly built nursery shape a material international market especially for drinking glass greenhouses , the maintenance , haunt and overhaul market place is home or even regional . " This is where we believe professional on - blood line line of work can come together the physical aloofness gap between suppliers and the actual business client . We found out that the critical succeeder element to bridge the gap were : Use local language , a professional webshop for professionals with pictures , related to intersection , operating instructions etc . , professional staff to serve questions , product on stock and digitalise rules of order fulfillment for fast delivery and optimal logistics and shipping for immediate delivery at satisfactory price . "
The last years Alumat Zeeman has work firmly to accomplish this and last week they open their French Webshop . " And we have our first enthusiastic reactions , " Bert says proudly .
Erlend Bonnet of Vitrérie Bonnet SARL from St. Antoine l ’ Abbaye ( Auvergne - Rhone - Alpes neighborhood ): “ It is dandy to see all parts in detail and if I have some question for exemplar when freshen up a greenhouse , I just adjoin them and they serve me to find the right office . For the residuum the ordering mental process and shipment is very easygoing . I have access now to products coming from the Westland , the heart of horticulture in Holland , ” Erlend say with a gag in his vox .
“ We will now sharpen on making our on - line weapons platform known in France so more professional can ascertain the region they involve even in times of Corona or being far away from middleman or distributors , we are just around the ( electronic ) corner , " Bert conclude . " We plan to revolve our platform to more countries in Europe where the same principle are valid . "
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