On 29 January 2025 – Royal FloraHolland Cooperative Day – RFH ’s formal Members ' Council took place , as well as member group meeting .
At the Members ' Council meeting , the Board held audience with the Members ' Council regarding Royal FloraHolland ’s strategy , annual programme and budget for 2020 . The 2020 rates for members were adopted and Supervisory Board members were elect ( SB ) .
Royal FloraHolland StrategyRichard Fernandes , member of the Members ' Council and the Strategy Committee : " in the beginning this year we as Members ' Council had inquire for ' a man on the moon ' , a unequivocal objective . The Board has now come in back with a absolved vision and focal point . There is more superintendence of the interrelated effects of all the alteration . There is also a roadmap with clear milestones . What are we go bad to see at the end of 2020 , or the end of 2021 and 2022 ? Members ' Council contribution are sure decease to be factor out in . " During Cooperative Day , the Board extensively discourse Royal FloraHolland ’s future strategic course .
2020 RatesThe Members ' Council also adopted 2020 rates for members . The rates for 2020 will be somewhat correct . addition have been kept to a lower limit as much as potential . The plenty and trolley levy will be index by 3 % . The maximum turnover for levying the varying share will be increase from € 750,000 to € 850,000 . This means a maximum increment of € 500 per year . The initiation of a complete letting recompense for multiple use of the Floratino industrial plant container will leave in lower cost and contribute to sustainability . Niels de Groot of the Members ' Council : " In 2020 we want to take another look at the benefits of membership as of 2021 . The rate are an authoritative part of this . In March we will be organising interview session to get feedback from members on this topic . "
newfangled make - up and members of the Supervisory Board ( SB)The Members ' Council has approved an amendment to the SB ’s by - law which changes the incumbency of SB members from three price of 2 years each to two term of 4 years each . This is in line with the terms of the Members ' Council and the Board . In addition , the make up of the SB will deepen from 6 internal and 3 external members to 5 home and 4 external members . It means that the SB can be expanded with redundant strategical expertness in the areas of logistics , digitalization and B2B earnings models . agriculturalist still make up the bulk of the SB and the chair will always be a citizens committee member . This new make up of the SB will be de driehoek further reinforced at the top of Royal FloraHolland .
The Members ' Council has appointed Chrysanthemum - grower Evert van Helvoort as the new citizens committee member for Royal FloraHolland . Piet Coelewij ( former Wehkamp CEO ) and Birgit Otto ( Schiphol Group COO ) have been appointed as extraneous SB appendage . The now - sit around citizens committee appendage Jack Goossens , Gerben Ravensbergen and Rosaline Zuurbier have been reappointed for four years . SB members Jan Andrea and Emiel Barendse will step down from the SB . The Members ' Council approved the reappointment of Jack Goossens for a second condition as professorship of the SB .
Members ' Council ElectionsThe results of the Members ' Council election 2019 were announced during the membership meetings afterwards in the day . Marco Keysers , Steef Meewisse and Gerrit Jan Vermöhlen take their places as new member of the Members ' Council . The members also approved the reappointment of Carlo Elia , Arnoud van der Knaap , Peter Smak , Peter Varekamp and Arend Vreugdenhil for four years . Sjaak Buijs , Evert van Helvoort and Jay Williams abuse down as appendage of the Members ' Council . Marcel van Tol , chair of the Members ' Council , thanked them for their significant contributions during the past year . Emiel Barendse and Sjaak Buijs receive the Royal FloraHolland gold pin in pureness of their dynamic contributions to the growing of Royal FloraHolland over many years .
The new candidates to the Members ' Council were nominated by the Nomination Committee . They conducted interviews with all the candidate who had put themselves forwards as potential members of the Members ' Council . In addition to a candidate ’s own qualifications , the committee paid particular care to other feature , such as a distribution between arise , clock or unmediated , geographical area , age and sex activity , so as to secure effective representation of membership .
Click here to see the representation of the new Members ' Council as of 5 February 2025
Source : www.royalfloraholland.com
