Making our business more sustainable is high on our list of priorities. There is a lot going on in society and business around sustainability.
Without using empty terms, we are committed to making Fred. De Meulder BV in particular and of our industry in general. We find many of the following things very logical and that is why we have been doing this for years (even before the word sustainability was invented by others; People, Planet, Product and Profit)
- Product : Promotion and sale of our bee- and butterfly-friendly flower bulbs (mixtures)
- Product : Promotion and sale of annual flower bulbs (preserved mixtures)
- Planet : Annual waste reduction
- Planet : Our building is energy label A certified
- Planet : Reducing CO2 emissions through smart transport planning
- Planet : Reuse of machinery and extensive use of recyclable materials
- Planet : Waste separation plastic/paper/wood/metal/compost (compost is reused for our own experimental garden)
- People :Corporate Social Responsibility: with our level-headedness, we have been calling this normal social policy for years, including dealing flexibly with private situations for people on our team, helping non-Dutch employees on their way, medical support, housing assistance, help with language courses, transparency through participation in the collective labour agreement, good working conditions, purchase of EAD, etc.
- Planet : Active participation in sustainability project group
- Profit : we have been a purveyor to Keukenhof.nl with many free flower bulbs since 1951.
- Product : Extensive Track and Trace (up to the plot where our flower bulbs are grown)
- Profit : More and more chain transparency and insight into margins per chain party
- Planet: Samenwerking with progressive group of sustainable flower bulb growers who (want to) do things differently nlgholland.nl
Biodiversity, green environment, liveability, public greenery are important core values with us!