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Partners work together to provide one-stop plants shop
Neame Lea Nursery and Zyon UK are to work together to provide a 'one-stop shop' of UK and traded plants as well as added-value product, demonstrating how consolidation is affecting the plant supply market.
Zyon UK is a leading supplier and packer of plants and flowers to UK supermarkets, DIY chains and garden centre groups. Spalding-based nursery Neame Lea is one of the UK's largest ornamental plant producers, growing a range of indoor and outdoor products supplied to UK customers.
A new deal will allow Zyon UK to exclusively market Neame Lea's ornamental plant production, enabling customers to 'efficiently source both UK and European plants, flowers and added value from one point of contact'.
The move will give a combined UK turnover of pounds 35m in addition to the Zyon Group's EUR50m turnover in Europe. It will produce the largest grower-packer operation in the UK and will ensure that Zyon UK is 'strategically placed to manage the current changing economic...