“ The ornamental industriousness is not reacting to what the consumer likes , it is reacting on what works considerably in the greenhouse . Therefore , there are so many pelargoniums and petunias on the mart . Why not do a small more attempt for a different crop ? ” says Charlotte Weis of Plantinova , who is work in the cosmetic manufacture for 30 year . The primary activity of this Spanish fellowship is licensing , but this various company is doing a plenty more , like marketing and growing young plants of fruit trees and bedding plant and organizing trial . They ’ve always valuate the opinion of their consumers and for several days now , they are also inviting them to their trial to receive their feedback . And a couple of year ago , they settle to go a step further and show the new varieties already on a B2C platform . quick , the requirement to buy the varieties rise and a new sales communication channel was born . During and probably due to Covid-19 , the orders via this B2C platform increased sharply .
Covid-19 challengesThe impingement of Covid-19 has been austere . “ On the one helping hand , we had to share with the situation at our troupe . Fortunately , we are in the agricultural segment - outflow is the period when we send out the elite - material- so with a permission the worker were allow to come and continue business sector . And with only 3 to 4 people in Spain , we could easy keep space . " On the other hired man , they had to address with the grocery store . " Our main bodily process is licensing . Even though companies sold like crazy 2 - 3 weeks after initial beginning of the pandemic , many had confound away their plant in the commencement as they could not keep them , resulting in no gross sales being describe . This however is only the case for the bedding plant part as the fruit tree diagram growers could keep their Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and trade them at a later stage . ”
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Covid 19 opportunities"Even though we will cease the year with lower number compared to last yr , we are still proud of with the outcome , ” says Weis . They always have been fond of novelties and eager to discover the consumer ’s opinion . For this reason , they – for many years now- also invite consumers and bloggers to their test in Vilassar de Mar ( BA ) , Spain . “ Then , we get a good impression of what the ‘ real ’ market want . ” On top of prove the consumer their product on trials , they had the approximation to set up an online platform ( www.croppit.comand submit the novelties in this field and get feedback . cursorily , it turned out that the consumers were look for the bargain button . “ We did n’t expect this large interestingness , so we had to re - think it all and we started to do some small sales in 2019 to client in Spain . Then , when Covid hit the world , demand as well as sales start to increased and we make up one’s mind to spend more clip in working on the platform . Now , we are planning to wind it out in Denmark as well . "
Keep commercial-grade varieties in idea as wellAt Plantinova , they are tender of gewgaw , but it is also crucial to maintain clarity . Therefore , they always post out theirsupply chain catalogwith their commercial range in it . “ In this catalog , we heel all our young plant life agriculturalist . ” They just released their supply chain catalogue for 2021 , get through here to take a look at in .
Outlook for 2021For 2021 , the world-wide touch sensation is incontrovertible , says Weis . “ Sales are going quite well and are more or less similar to last year – this year however , we see some agriculturist book larger quantities and the cultivator in the south , who have been hit quite hard , are waiting back at bit . ” allot to Weis , the positive side for the ornamental industry is that we are selling an worked up Cartesian product . In many countries , we see that as many people remain at plate , more people are spend time in their garden and need to deck it . Also , when look at 2021 , when people are expected to stay put more home as well resulting in better sales of garden products . Also , we expect on-line sales event and presence to remain remain significant . Therefore , we are looking more into meliorate our web site and make it more user well-disposed .
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