Message of the President

The presence of the majors exponents of the sector in our compages, allows us to put together the best experiences, to start a new course that creates further possibilities of development for the whole nursery gardening set of companies, in the consciousness than the marked inter-professional character inside of the set of companies itself, it can supply with a concrete contribution to the agricultural world in order that it finally goes out of the atavic isolation in which it lived for a long time.

The President
Alessandro Pagano

The Activities

• The development, the promotion and the advertising in the sale of Plants and flowers of every kind, in order to strengthen the market of such products, and also of the connected and accessory ones, with particular reference to the ecological-environmental systems;
• The creation, the tutelage, the management, the purchase, the sale, the assignment for the use, of collective marks and patents, an also the promotion of the DOP and IGP for the products of the associated;
• The attainment of the good quality certifications for the products of the partners, according to the national and international normative;
• The promotion and the realization of agro-industrial investment plans for the purpose of the development of the nursery gardening set of companies for itself and/or for the associated companies using every resource foreseen by regional, national and community laws;
• The utilization of tools to access financial operations, also international, in favour of associated;
• The promotion of the exports of the products of the associated, the aid in the treatment of business with foreign operators, including the release of guarantees;
• The importation and the purchase of raw materials and semi- manufactured on behalf of the associated;
• The supply of collective guarantees for the access to credit, also in the merchant-bank form, in line and according of the legislation in force;
• The promotion of studies and initiatives in the nursery gardening field, also through the realization of courses, of stage, of seminaries to spread technical knowledge and application of innovative processes, in favour of the associated companies;
• The promotion of activity of information and formation and the offer of means and services to partners for the best fulfilment of its activity, as data bank, monitoring of the customers, of the productions, of the suppliers, of the means, of the productive and commercial tools and systems;
• The participation to shows, fairs, conventions and prestige demonstrations which turn out useful and productive for the set of companies affirmation, in Italy and abroad;
• The creation of a telecoms platform for the offer of the products to the national and foreign operators, with special reference to the G.D.O.;
• The promotion, the realization, the management of systems for the production and the marketing of electric and thermal energy by any source;
• The collection, treatment and waste disposal by one's and third parties structures;
• The participation to associative organisms, national or international having for purpose the nursery gardening market reinforcement
• The assumption of partnership in other companies, enterprises or consortiums having similar purposes, similar or connected to the one's
• Every other useful initiative for the set of companies growth

THE PURPOSE

• Safeguard the interests of the associated, through the development of a qualified nursery gardening, designed towards the income and conditions improvement of the operators devoted to the cultivation of plants and flowers, and also of all the partners who in some way work in the world of the set of companies sector;

• Promote every act oriented to the improvement of the competitiveness of the whole set of companies, in Italy and abroad;

• Develop every useful action to represent the demands of its partners, towards the public and private institutions and organizations, being due to adopt normative, administrative and contractual tools which affect the sector;

• Orient the offer toward high quality products, to high content of services and of value added

Conaflor: The Best of italian nursery gardening sector

In a market without frontiers, opened and competitive, the strategy of the coalitions among the various protagonists of the agro-industrial set of companies appears the paradigm most effective to make a name for oneself and keep on growing on the internal and international market. Producing at best and enriching the offer with efficient and modern services represents a fundamental qualification of the nursery gardening sector, which counts on an entrepreneurial lively and provided with high professionalism. They have well understood it the forty bigs of the "Made in Italy" products which have met in the national nursery gardening consortium, called CONAFLOR S. C. R. L., with headquarters placed in Salerno and operating agencies in Italy and abroad.
It springs up, therefore, a beautiful productive and commercial reality which already realizes till today a sales of 500 million euro (some thing like a thousand billions of our old lire) and that gives work and maintenance to about 4 thousand employed in the sector of the nursery gardening and in the induced complex that gravitate around it. The union of the entrepreneurial capacities and the technical and financial means of the partners can only improve these 'fundamental', with undeniable advantages on the economic and occupational plan.

As it can be deduce from the memorandum of association and the statute, the main consortium purpose is the safeguard of the interests of the partners, through the development of a modern and qualified nursery gardening which looks to an always more articulate and demanding market in terms of good quality and services, without neglecting the agricultural-environmental problems and the clean energy sources. The instruments of which the Consortium has been equipped offer a rich range of productive and commercial possibility range to its partners, and in the first instance the possibility to realize an agro-industrial plan with a strongly positive impact, for the set of companies components and for the interested nursery gardening areas.
For these reasons founder partners of Conaflor gather all the subjects and the enterprises of the set of companies together, in their various articulations - from the productive phase, to the connected and accessories services, to the supply of structures and equipment for production, to the industrial and commercial phases - so that they take part in the economic and social growth of the nursery gardening. A certainly promising sector, provided that the healthy and productive strengths of the Country actually join their capacities to win the challenges of the global market.