The 11th Veiling Rhein - Maas Customer and Supplier Day took place on 14 January . The vendue lobby in Herongen was filled almost to electrical capacity with more visitors than ever before , states Veiling Rhein - Maas .
Eva Kähler - Theuerkauf , President of the ' Zentralverband Gartenbau ' ( ZVG ) , gave the opening delivery at the effect . She also addressed the many current challenges confront the sector - regulatory requirements at European horizontal surface , clime variety , sustainability , digitalization , a shortage of skilled actor , byplay stoppage due to a lack of succession and the necessary transformation of working good example . The ZVG President has full confidence in the green sphere and the many horticultural concern , believe that these challenge can be overcome together . She concluded with a positive ' Who , if not us ? '
client and Supplier of the Year AwardsThe high spot of the Customer and Supplier Day was the ' Customer and Supplier of the Year 2025 ' awards . ship’s company had until mid - November 2024 to submit their sustainable natural action to Veiling Rhein - Maas as ' Customer of the Year ' or ' Supplier of the Year ' . The finalist in both category were give at the event in short videos , which allow them to explain why they deserved the respective award .
The garden center Famiflora , headquartered in Moeskroen , Belgium , came out on top in the ' Customer of the Year ' category . Douwe Baert , emptor for flowers and plants , present the troupe ’s sustainability measures in his covering telecasting .
These admit a total of 10,000 solar panels at the various sites , a fleet of almost exclusively galvanizing vehicle , sustainable underfloor warming at the Moeskroen site and vigour generation using biomass pellets made from the garden centre ’s own organic waste .
The other finalists for ' Customer of the Year ' were Garten Grewe from Rotenburg Wümme ( DE ) and Tuincentrum van der Spek in Zevenhuizen in the Netherlands .
Holzäckerhof in Unterpleichfeld ( DE ) in Bavaria , which was symbolize at the Customer and Supplier Day by possessor and operations managing director Sebastian Sauer , won the ' Supplier of the Year ' award . Holzäckerhof is devote to sustainable energy production and producing peonies as well . In addition to photovoltaic organisation , the farm also operate a large 2.5 megawatt biogas plant , whose waste warmth is also used to heat buildings in the neighboring village . Thanks to the biogas plant , the farm is also self - sufficient in terms of electricity . More and more alternative products are being used as input materials . In add-on , flower energy crops are being planted to substitute more and more areas of Indian corn .
The other finalist in the ' Supplier of the Year ' family were the nursery Artmeyer from Hörstel - Riesenbeck ( DE ) , Gartenbau Welzel from Kerken ( DE ) and LG Flowers from Pijnacker in the Netherlands .
" Congratulations to the Famiflora Garden Center and Holzäckerhof on deliver the goods the ' Customer of the Year ' and ' Supplier of the Year ' awards . They ingrain our guest at the Customer and Supplier Day the most with their blanket commitment to sustainability and are therefore deserving succeeder . Many thanks also to the other finalist and the customers and supplier who did not make it to the final . We are all united by the common goal of continuing to promote sustainability in the green sector in as many way as possible , " said Cees Hoekstra and Günther Esser , Managing Directors of Veiling Rhein - Maas .
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