About Vilosa
Vilosa – Growing delight
Kalanchoe and Celosia: products that make us happy and with which we want to make people happy. Growing delight, because Vilosa grows fabulous plants. Pot plants that are a feast for the eye with their colours and unusual shapes, and are easy to live with due to their strength and quality. There’s a lot to be done when growing these products in order to be able to keep on innovating. Our love for the plants combined with the authenticity of our growers and a modern automated nursery ensure that we have a customer-oriented approach. This enables us to serve both large retail customers and niche customers with special requirements. We are considered the experts when it comes to Kalanchoe. Alongside the focus on the very best quality products, Vilosa’s goal is to offer the customer a choice from a unique and wide range. Hence the Kalanchoe range features various varieties and sizes, but we also want to be known for our Kalanchoe Specialties and the Celosia varieties.
Two family businesses merging into one. From operating side by side to going forward together under one name. Vilosa was established in 2018 and resulted from the collaboration between De Veranda and Solis Plant: two dedicated specialists in the field of Kalanchoe with the same goal and a deep-rooted love of cultivation. Together with the family businesses’ years of experience this means that we can supply the best quality Kalanchoe and seasonal products such as Celosia. With effect from 2018 we are no longer two separate companies – we are Vilosa. One company with ambitious plans, based on the trusted foundations that you already expect from us.
Our locations
‘s-Gravenzande
The nursery on Laan van de Heilige Lambertus in ‘s-Gravenzande is Vilosa’s primary location. This location is known for having the most modern way of working thanks to the extensive automation in both cultivation and logistical processing. The main product at the ‘s-Gravenzande location is the double-flowered Kalanchoe in a 10.5 cm pot size.
A team packed with people who match Vilosa’s ambitious nature
Our people
Fred van Luijk
director
Rene van Dop
director
Nick Groenewegen
co-owner
Gerrit van Dop
co-owner
Monique van Luijk
administration
Elles van Dop
administration
Loek Ammerlaan
sales
Roy Groenewegen
sales
John van der Wel
sales – marketing
Ilone Zwinkels
sales – marketing
Leon van Rijn
operations manager
Edwin Staallekker
despatch coordinator
Ilona Jonusauska
team leader
Roy Vijverberg
internal transport
William van den Enden
operations manager
Jaco Buitelaar
despatch coordinator
Tim van Luijk
operations manager
Peter van Leeuwen
cultivation specialist
Sustainability
Vilosa wants to produce high quality pot plants that make everyone happy
And by everyone we don’t just mean customers, but also the planet and our employees. We therefore take sustainability and being environmentally friendly extremely seriously. We generate part of our energy ourselves using a heat and power plant. This helps warm the crop, but also contributes to the electricity for the lighting. We also actively reuse CO2. The environment certificates that Vilosa has achieved show that we consistently apply sustainability within our operations and we produce a clean product. Our certificates are:
- MPS-ABC: a unique benchmark for monitoring the operations. Vilosa is MPS-A certified, which means that our organisation is the most environmentally friendly.
- MPS-GAP: this is a certificate specially designed for nurseries that supply supermarkets and retailers which allow traceability, safety and hygiene to be demonstrated.
- MPS-Socially Qualified: there are also requirements relating to health, safety and working conditions. Vilosa ensures good working conditions, as a result of which we are also certified in this area.
- MPS-ProductProof participant: a system where registration is used to show that particular active ingredients have not been used in the cultivation.
- PlanetProof: a quality mark for more sustainably grown products. Vilosa goes beyond the legal requirements for cleaner air, fertile soil, good water quality, more nature in the business and circular waste processing and recycling. That means we are on the way to PlanetProof!
- See www.volgjebloemofplant.nl for more information. Vilosa’s MPS number is: 802927.
