René van Egmond is one of the humanity responsible for buying and sales at C Leeuwenbrug . In late age , cut-rate sale of Christmas particular , in fussy , have exploded . " We have been doing that for about 15 twelvemonth , but it has become a form of hobbyhorse that got out of hand . Every year , it becomes more and more , the volumes have grown , and from the beginning of October until December , we have our hand full . "
reckon on the season , the products and customers vary enormously . " In wintertime , we do a lot of tulip , at Christmas Christmas items , in summertime , a lot of summertime flower . It ’s in reality always busy , but of course , that ’s the intention . Still , it is mainly the Christmas articles for which the company has become more and more well known in late years . "
When it comes to Christmas items , one should mainly think of ironical flowers and side cuttings with , for example ( pine ) orchard apple tree or grass balls on them . refreshed flowers are also sourced and dye or glittered grant to requirement , which is a surprisal every year . " I think we have grown so much in this partly because others have stopped doing it . It is trade that you have to be able to pre - finance , and not everyone can do that . A container might arrest trade deserving 30 or 40 thousand euro . You order them month in rise , and if there are three or four of them , you have a tonne and a one-half outstanding . Besides , we have now built up such a big assortment that you just have by far the most choice with us . "
It is not the kind of trade where typically large margins are achieved , René explains . " There is more or less a limit to it , for instance , we always have to deal with container prices and prices of in the buff materials , while at the same time , shops usually do n’t make big tolerance on these point either . But demand is in high spirits , sales are mainly to England and France , but go all over Europe . England is our heavy market place ; it ’s amazing how crazy those English are about side - spikelet . "
C Leeuwenburg ’s history go back quite a few years . After some sentence in business with a partner , Cees Leeuwenburg start his own flower commercial enterprise in 1950 . In good time , boy Hans and Wim join the company and they still bunk the business . The home base port is Rijnsburg ; they also have a box seat at Naaldwijk . Customers in Aalsmeer are also supplied from Rijnsburg .
René has been working at C Leeuwenburg for 30 age . Every day , the dismay goes off at 3 a.m. , and once all the work has been done , he bring back home around 3 or 4 in the good afternoon . No loafing around , then , but he feels veracious at dwelling house . " It ’s oeuvre , of course , but I think masses within our troupe have a lot of freedom . As long as the bottom furrow is right , and fortunately , it has been doing that for years . Also , citizenry figure out here for a retentive time , there is much no employee turnover . To my knowledge , no one has even left unless they retired . "
For more information : René van EgmondC. LeeuwenburgLaan van Verhof 32231 BZ , RijnsburgTel . : +31 ( 0 ) 71 4094315[email protected]www.cleeuwenburg.nl
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