What do you do when there ’s a disturbance and you do n’t have idiot box for two daylight ? Looking back at old photos it seems , because recently Piet Rensen with Peter Dekker Installaties was sent an old picture of himself together with Jan Vellekoop on a pile of building profile . Theo Zwinkels , a chrysanthemum grower , found and direct it . " It was a greenhouse of 3 - 3.5 hectares , in a time we move from one chrysanthemum agriculturalist to the next " , Jan and Piet reminisce together .
Piet Rensen and Jan Vellekoop on a stack of visibility at the greenhouse under building at Theo Zwinkels
" It was my agile sell ever " , remember Jan. " I live Theo well and the trust was there , so it was settle in 10 proceedings . " It was a busy chrysanthemum time , in which Theo was not the only one building . " A lot of growers scale up from 1 to 3 hectares , so it all blend tight . Me as a service man and Piet as executor made quite a few kilometers . "
Piet and Jan in 2020 , not intercept yet
Piet adds : " I ’m not so cutting on pic , but in the top one , I call up Theo consider it himself , the glass was n’t even on and we were niggle about what to do with the screen . A darkening screen go in , so the daytime could be shortened in summertime . "
In the role and on the roadNowadays , Piet organizes from the office in Naaldwijk , ingest care of the help section , and Jan takes attention of sales . Twenty years ago , the time of the mental picture , that was different . Piet was a edifice developer after having start as a contractile organ , and Jan did actual strong-arm workplace in service . It ’s something he can express mirth about , and his confrere care to cod him with .
More amiable"Such a picture , that ’s nice " , says Jan , " but it also means you ’re maturate . Which I do n’t bear in mind , because as long as my head go along work , I ’ll go on with what I ’m doing . Sales is the salutary affair there is , although a lot has changed . drink in a beer with some grower you knew , that does n’t encounter any longer . Back then everyone did n’t really have anything , and you were all a starting entrepreneur . It was just more amiable . "
Left at the right kilometer markerIt was also the time that scaling up started and they started looking afield . " We already were in Germany and the rest of Europe , but just before the twist of the century we pass over the sea for the first time " , Jan reminisces . " I ’d been there in private , but never for business organisation . You did n’t have GPS yet , you ’d just take a map and go . They said to take that one expiration at that one kilometer marker and then go for another time of day to the site . Nowadays no one would do that any longer . "
ClimbingPiet can be found at the billet , since about ten year , after driving 80,000 to 90,000 kilometers every year . " When Peter Dekker junior went from personal organiser to director , I took his former job . That terminate the time of going from one situation to another . I do think back to that time , but the greenhouses are too heavy and eminent for me nowadays . "
Around the turn of the one C , nursery building was a lot less mechanized , and you ’d really have to climb up . When traffic issues got worse , too , I wind up at the office and I hope to stay there until my retreat in April 2021 . This twelvemonth 4 day a week and next year 3 days a week . "
NoteJan will go on longer , and still goes ' truly everywhere ' . " In the beginning I went to Korea . I had , so to verbalise , just learned where that was . The sign all had unreadable text and at the airport you were picked up to melt for three weeks . The immature contemporaries find that tough to conceive now , but it was really like that . Facetiming , rebooking your flight , that just was n’t possible then . You came equip with a note , and that was that . "
This was the first in a serial publication of stories from the archive . PDI trust to find more old picture show this year , so stay tune up .
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