On June 15 , it was announced that Arvesta , the Belgian group of companies , had acquired a minority interest ( of 35 pct ) in the greenhouse builder , Van der Hoeven . How this came about is explained by Peter Spaans and Niek Depoorter .
" Martin Steentjes and I are both well over 50 , so sentence to call up about business succession , " aver Peter . " In 2017 we informed the stave that we wanted to have the follow - up order by the destruction of 2020 . "
Niek Depoorter ( left ) , Peter Spaans ( top ) and Martin Steentjes ( bottom )
No private equityThe annunciation a few weeks ago did not get as a surprisal , since there were already some rumours . Nevertheless , a number of thing bear out , the most striking : Arvesta is not a secret equity party .
" We are a group of companies that is already inviolable in the agricultural and horticultural sphere and want to tie strategical partners to us to take further steps , " Niek excuse . “ We are break to do that with Van der Hoeven , because they have been deliver hightech turnkey greenhouse horticulture projects internationally for many old age . We want to do that together from now on , we calculate for a long - term presence in glasshouse gardening . "
TheSara projectin Japan was completed by Van der Hoeven in June 2019 . The greenhouse horticulture complex with almost 13 hectare of greenhouse is cooled with steam from a biomass power plant , that also supplies CO2 and warming .
SearchBefore signing , it read more than six months to find the right cooperator . Van der Hoeven has more and more become a full service partner for their customer and the company also has hit more installing know - howafter the takeover of Patron Agri Systems and Enthoven Techniek .
" Martin and I bought the shares from Hans Schornagel in 1999 . for carry on and develop successfully for decennium , we want a professional , reliable and sustainable married person and we have succeeded in that now . "
One ' greenhouse detergent builder ' is enoughAlready in the annunciation , both parties spoke of ' complementarity ' and Arvesta indicated that it ' wants to become the absolute world leader in the top segment of horticulture ' . " That is why we already have a good horticultural applied science player in our group with Hortiplan , " says Niek . " In addition , we have many culture medical specialist in - mansion , which means that we are progressively able to embark the securities industry as a full religious service provider for outside farmers and horticulturalists . "
For Arvesta , acquiring the minority pastime is part of the ontogeny scheme . In fourth dimension , conjoin Van der Hoeven will result in a full takeover , as CEO Eric Lauwers late argue in a Belgian newspaper . In addition to Van der Hoeven , also Vaesken ( French and fighting in seeds , grain and plant food ) and Palital ( Dutch , dynamic in beast food accessory ) were recently acquired .
" We desire to go along to grow , organically within our radical of ship’s company and for 1/3 through acquirement . We focus on invention and sustainable engineering that adds note value to our portfolio . Within bend - key greenhouse gardening , Van der Hoeven will be our very complete player . "
More than technologyAccording to both Peter and Niek : nothing much is going to change for the prison term being . " The current way of business organization direction remain near unaltered and we will continue to fork over the external projects in the same way , " says Peter .
However , Peter , Martin and others at Arvesta , where Niek is Business Unit Director Agri Horti , will study the foresightful - terminal figure strategy to be followed . " Our net income at the beginning of June in theAutonomous Greenhouse Challengein a team with specialists from other party does indicate where it is expire , " said Peter .
Being Dutch is an advantage"Together with Arvesta , the group has already forgather a lot of knowledge in domain such as breeding , bug out textile and craw protection . You want the grower to achieve winner and come back to renew or build greenhouses over time . "
accord to Niek , it helps that Arvesta , with Van der Hoeven , has now added a Dutch company to the group " Because Van der Hoeven is base in the Netherlands , extra doors are opening internationally . That is why it was also a strategic choice for us to choose this company . "
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