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‘Looking after regional members will be paramount within this role’
Pro Landscaper interviews new BALI North West regional Chairman Matthew Spedding, EasiGrass National Account Manager
Congratulations on your appointment Matt, when do you take up your new role? I offi cially took up the role in early June as soon as EasiGrass became full contracting BALI members.
What are your plans to invigorate the region, to get the members engaged and become more involved and active? Firstly in the middle of August I plan to run a relaunch celebration, and bring together all the members, key suppliers and partners. The event will be something the industry hasn’t seen before, which is really exciting and will relaunch the BALI brand in the region.
How will you fi t your BALI role around your commitment with EasiGrass? I currently spend a lot of time with landscape companies of all sizes trying to help them win more business and help market their companies. I’m hoping a lot of the skills I use running the EasiGrass partnership network will bring similar benefi ts to BALI members.
With the new structure at BALI your key accounts skills will be extremely important... Looking after regional members will be paramount within this role and fi ts perfectly with the way I work.
I understand what is required of me as it’s a major part of my current role with EasiGrass and something I really enjoy doing.
What are the main goals for you? I really want to concentrate on helping BALI members win more business, generate sales and balance that with promoting the BALI brand. I also think that some BALI members could benefi t from marketing and sales assistance and this is one of the areas I will be attacking at the relaunch.
Matthew Spedding
matt@easigrass.com
Quadron Services joins Green Connect
Quadron Services has joined Green Connect; an exciting new company for anyone working or volunteering in parks and green spaces. Green Connect’s Director, Karen Hughes said “I am passionate about the value of our parks and green spaces both in our towns and the countryside. I want those of us who work and volunteer in them
to learn from each other, sharing information, problems and solutions right across the South West.” Quadron’s Managing Director,
Clive Ivil said “Quadron prides itself on Cultivating Sustainable Green Communities. We are pleased to become part of Green Connect because it will ensure we interact with the communities
whose green spaces we manage, to work together towards a sustainable future. We look forward to connecting and sharing experiences with other supporters.”
www.quadronenvironment.com www.green-connect.weebly.com
NURSERY NEWS Taking Stock
August at The Plantation is generally a slightly quieter
month for us so it’s an opportune time to take stock. We have time to refl ect on the late but very busy successful spring, time to analyse the sales trends and time to prepare for hopefully a very busy autumn. Traditionally we did our annual stock take in January but scraping snow off labels, short daylight hours and freezing conditions resulted in us rescheduling to August. It’s also time to
reserve and place some of our
substantial orders for plants for the rest of this year and for early 2014. Kevin White, General Manager, is already
hunting down key pieces for various clients, “By reserving the specimen plants now we can be confi dent of securing the best quality stock to meet our customers’ requirements.” We also encourage our customers to take stock; it’s the time of year when we all use our gardens more so a good time to look for new plants to fi ll the gaps and enhance existing schemes.
Lots of exciting new projects to look forward to but for now it’s back to counting stock.......304, 305, 306, 307...
www.theplantationnursery.co.uk
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