The 14th edition of the HORTICO Fair is behind us! Once again, representatives of the HORTICO SA Capital Group met with their best customers and the largest suppliers from the horticultural industry. As every year, records for orders and sales were broken and an excellent turnout was achieved.
The meeting took place on January 15-16, 2016 at the OSSA **** Congress & SPA hotel in Ossa near Rawa Mazowiecka. Despite the unfavorable weather (finally snow, but why so much?), All the invited guests managed to get to the place to meet together and sum up the past season. 50 companies – distributors and 40 producers in one place – over 200 people in total! This opportunity only happens once a year.
We started the fair, in line with the tradition, in the conference room, where the HORTICO Supervisory Board officially welcomed all participants and briefly summed up 2015, which was an extraordinary, even breakthrough year in the history of the HORTICO Group’s development. In March 2015, HORTICO SA purchased Przedsiębiorstwo Nasiennictwa Ogrodniczego i Szkółkarstwa SA in Ożarów Mazowiecki, a company with over 50 years of history, one of the largest and oldest breeding and seed companies in Poland. In the same year, on November 15, HORTICO also took over the operations of the Floran warehouse in Rzeszów. A wholesaler that has been operating in this market for 20 years. After the summary, the Supervisory board thanked the customers for excellent cooperation in the past year, and the suppliers honored their largest customers with prizes and awards.
After the conference part, the main part has started – the 14th Horticultural Fair. The Exhibitors present at the Fair presented their best products, and customers had the opportunity to purchase them on preferential terms, and this is before the season itself. All orders placed were qualified for the HORTICO Olympics, the results of which were announced at the ceremonial banquet on the same day. Due to the growing popularity and great interest in the HORTICO electronic purchasing platform – “Contractor’s Desktop”, the Supervisory Board of HORTICO decided to distinguish and reward the most active users as part of the “Place orders – win prizes” project. Producers were also awarded at the Fair, the awards were given in the following categories: The Best Product of the Fair (Bayer for the Desimo Duo preparation), The Best Stand (awarded to FORM-PLASTIC) and the Fair Play award (Inco Group and Pawłowski Company).
Customers were awarded in the following categories: Value of sales, value of purchases and also – Fair Play
The HORTICO fair is behind us, and a new season and many challenges are ahead of us! It’s good that the orders, moods and attendance were once again great, which makes us optimistic.
See you next year, at the next HORTICO SA Fair.
