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Entrance to the Visa Oshwal Centre in Nairobi Kenya
Entrance to the Visa Oshwal Centre
From left to right: Dick van Raamsdonk of HPP Exhibitions, Chris Kulei of KFC, Idris Dokota of Cabinet Affairs, Christine Chesara of HCD and Simon Maina of KEPHIS.
opening ceremony
Speech by Dick van Raamsdonk during the opening ceremony
Chris Kulei of Sian Flowers and Chairman of KFC (Kenya Flower Council)
Christine Chesaro, A.G. Director of HCD
Bronze price for Koppert in the category non-perishables.
Silver price for Turkish Cargo in the category non-perishables
gold price for Kuehne+Nagel in the category non-perishables.
Platinum price for DHL Cargo in the category non-perishables.
More prices being given
Silver for Octoflor
Platinum price for Black Tulip Group.
Speech by Idris Dokota, Principal Secretary of Cabinet Affairs.
cutting the ribbon
Applause for the show being opened
Ready to enter the expo
Visiting the booths, here at Red Lands Roses
Elizabeth Muasya of Floriken Blooms
It was the first time at Iftex for Eric Muthi and Caleb Nyangala with Moriah Growers
Winnie Muya with the Agriculture sector network (Asnet).
At the Indcare Africa Limited booth were Caroline Jepkorir, Rana Yogyeshkumar and Mathew Musee
Ninth Avenue flowers with Regina Gathoni and Samuel Moturi
Almaz Ganiev and John Macharia with Milele Flowers. They consolidate Kenyan flowers and ship them worldwide.
Ranges farm with Connie Munee (Director) and Diana
Khalid Bander en Abubakar Hajir of Yunique flowers and Roses, They focus on the Middle East.
Unique Blooms Kenya with George Muhoro and Catherine Njuguna
Winfred Akinyi and her team arrange flights and safaris for tourists
Flower Cliq with Shabistan Khan
Zipporah Warura en Kelisha Wangui of Zipzap flowers
Herany Flower Kenya with Abigael Bett and Jacinta Wainaina,
Franklyne Moses of Herany Flower Kenya
Susan Kuria with Flawless Flowers. They grow roses and summer flowers.
The brothers Gabriel and George Kagucia with Horaizo Blooms
Wakulima Marigiti with Robert Hanssen en Dyal Taljard
William Woodward and Herman Vera of Cipasi from Spain. They produce 100% recyclable plastics for the Floriculture industry, agriculture industry and much more.
Clarah Rehema with Figorr and Christian Josiah of Mango Tribe Consulting
The team of CMA CGM
Busy at the Turkish Cargo booth
Remco Landsmeer and Arthij van der Veer with MPS. They are active in 65 countries with 3,500 growers. In 2022 they started with the Footprint Calculator.
Remco Landsmeer, Ronald van de Breevaart and Arthij van der Veer
Aiyappa Kushalappa en Andrew Tarus with Hortech
The team of East Africa Business Company, an agrochemical company based in Nairobi that supplies growers in East Africa.
Paul Muli with Elegant Blossoms
Visitors
Busy times
Red Lands Roses with Irene Nkatha (sales manager), Scolastica (post harvest manager) Prisca Wandiya (sales)
The team of Everflora: Akshay Dadas, Kushel Latel. They are based near Thika and grow premium, intermediate and spray roses.
Booth of Royal FloraHolland
Tara Shepherd, Jay Ilsink, Gavin Mouritzen with Interplant. They represent Royal van Zanten and Kolster in East Africa.
Beautiful arrangements
The team of Interplant created a living room in their booth
Meetings at Dümmen Orange
Lots of visitors at Black Tulip Group
The team of Koppert.
The team of AAA Flowers
Daniel Mwanthi of Scania
Allan Kaguchia with Oboya
Nirav Haria and Moses Odhiambo with Acme. After a couple of years they are back at Iftex.
Matej Usenik of Printack
Alejandro Umaña and Mildred Anyango of Ball. They have been supplying Kenyan growers for over 12 years.
Different colors Limonium at the booth of Ball
Gordon Onyango, Monicah Mwinga and Kinoti Marangu of DB Schenker
Michael de Geus of Select Breeding Roses.
the booth of Simbi roses
Party Nagree and Jay Siyanee of Shri Ambica Polymer Private Limited. This Indian based company supplies all kind of protective cultivation products to growers all over the world. In Kenya, they mostly sell the ground covers and insect nets.
Patrick Garner and Amraphael Mwatibo of Geerlofs
Joseph Kamau of Credible Blooms showing his flowers
Tinted Gypsophilia
Julius Ruto with Karen Flowers
Mary Chen and John Chang of Insonshade
Ender Gencer of Ileri Plastik, suppyling greenhouse films in Kenya since 2013.
Arnaud Nouhant with Mecaflor. It is his first time at Iftex in Kenya.
DHL booth
Sylvia and Frank of Organix
Twiga Chemicals Group
the Twiga Chemicals Group is celebrating their 75th anniversary.
Mathieu Goudeseune and his colleague with Manuchar.
The booth of Manuchar being visited.
Daniel of Tambuzi Garden Roses. They are the first B Corp-certified grower in Kenya’s flower industry.
Richard Maijenberg from Horti supplies international visits the booth of Dimitrios Milios who’s with Plastika.
Dennis mutahib and Dinkar Wandhekar, general manager of Hanna Roses.
George Gitaigha of Gatoka, a roses and summer flower grower.
Francis Karanja with Sanpac, they supply packaging material for the flower industry.
Joyce Mwaura, Faith Mwangi and Rachel Mugure, general manager of Tradewinds.
The Flowerwatch team with their AI colleague Rose.
Siddeshkumar Zipare, director of Galaxy Flowers
the Kranian team
Roto tanks with Rajesh Kumar Darji
Mercy Nduma of Kiki Flowers
Oscar Peters of De Ruiter with Dick van Raamsdonk of HPP Exhibitions
Booth of De Ruiter
EG Hill is one of the companies being represented by De Ruiter in East Africa
Wawuda Boli, Nelson Okoth and Dave Zoetemelk of InspiraFarms.
Oasis Floralife with Jane Kariba, Mercy Kinuthia and Vivianne Njeri
Arnoud Bolten of Georges Delbard
Winnie Macharia of Royal & fresh flowers, they grow roses and spray roses in Nyeri, Mount Kenya.
Clement Tulezi and Hosea Machuki of the Kenya Flower Council
Bruno Etavard and Rowan Godfrey of Meilland
meetings at EHPEA
fresh Ethiopian coffee at EHPEA
Samuel Kariuki, Joyce Vera and Joyline Khavandi of Janst healthcare
Hila Lati, Keren Katzav and Harel Caduri of Gadot agro. They are supplying the Kenyan market with many post harvest products.
Gadot Agro showing the difference between flowers that use their product and flowers that don't.
Amor & Omang group
Amor & Omang booth
Ole Engai growers
Billy Chege and Joyceline Kamau of Murara Plants Kenya
Eric Bouman, Billy Chege and Joyceline Kamau of Murara Plants Kenya and Bart Sneek of HilverdaFlorist
They are introducing the new florincas (alstroemerias) with several flowers
Satheeshkumar Nair of Zen Engineering
Embassy of the Netherlands
Oscar Biutah, Dorit Kowarsky, John Kowarsky, Ammin Zamir and Martin Kabaka of CargoLite presenting the new slimskid
Angeline Abuti is with Viking Roses for the first time at Iftex
Spray Roses from Viking Roses
Team of the Dutch Flower Group
Instagram corner in the booth of the Dutch Flower Group
the Primarose team: Jay Hirani (sales manager), Grace and Kate (part of digital team)
Brian Ogola and Nancy Mieke of Mzurrie Flowers
Felipe Gomez of Selecta showing some new varieties
New varieties at Selecta
New varieties at Selecta
Jeroen van Marrewijk and his team of Lenana Flowers
Lenana Flowers
Tom Finlay of Two chiefs came to Kenya in 2018 and ended up forming a business partnership with Waiyaki Ngugi. They sell papyrus of cut flower quality.
The team of Stokman and ProRoot
Anantha Kumar of Porini
Team of Airflo. Perishables freight forwarder that offers air and sea freight around the world with a focus on the Netherlands.
Monark Patel with P.J. Dave Flowers Group
Nelly Rupande of East African packaging industries
Team of Dümmen Orange
Intrinsa bouquet with resistant flowers
The team of Aquila: Prashat Takate, Seth Riungu and Ranjit Amrit
Pieter Rienstra of Bio Crop Care showing a new label on their packaging
Keuhne + Nagel with Christo van der Meer, Richard Hogewerd, Christian LuChau and Edwin Rozendaal
The Zebra and Krystal team
Floral chain Africa limited with Fidellis Kimanthi, Dave Hoekstra and Simon Kaguamba
Visitors at the booth of the Flower Hub & Lauren International were welcomed by Miriam Mbugua
Patrick van Dee and Matthijs den Dulk with Broekhof Africa. They introduced sleeves that are made of 97% recycled materials.
part of the team of Elgon Kenya
part of the team of Chrysal
The flowerguy of Bloomingdale Roses
part of the team of Amiran
Everlyn Prisat with Baraka Roses.
the team of Agriplast with Ertugrul Moluluo
Könst Alstroemeria with Lars Schalkens and Bart Tesselaar
The Xanadu Alstroemeria
Besides serious business also time to laugh
The team of United Selections
Heritage flowers, they grow roses, standard and spray, and summer flowers in Rumuruti, Laikipia County in Kenya
Anat Moshes and Esther Kanyeria of Danziger. They see more and more Chrysantemums being grown in Kenya. They brought some new roses as well.
Roses at Danziger
Stephan Heyer of Van Kleef Kenya with the new white arctica rose
The new white arctica rose
Haiko Backer, Peter Kagia, Faiza Jeptoo, Sidd Biseas of Schreurs
Mount Elgon Kenya with Bob Andersen
Phinna flowers team
Fenmolt flowers with Fridah and Sarah Mwangi. They brought some new flowers to the expo.
Faber infinite with director Aakash Borse
Talks
Shalimar Fresh Booth
Imani flowers
Imani flowers team
Flora Delight with Frans Ederveen, they brought new Hydrangeas, Delphiniums and Kalanchoe cut flowers.
Hydrangeas
Visitors
Raz Shalom and Ginna Ramos of Beauty Line with the Kenyan flag made out of flowers.
Octoflor team
Branan Flowers
Branan Flowers
Busy booth at Azrom, supplier of greenhouses, irrigation and installation.
Joseph Obango of Broban Export and Import Agencies
First time Iftex for Roelof Stijnman and Gerard Haazebroek of E.Z flower, next to some of their flower explosions.
Mount Kenya Sprouts with Muthoni Wachira
Exome life sciences, they offer different solutions for vibrant life and sustainable future
Bio Agri
Subati flowers with Narendra Patel and Ravi Patel next to their mix of available flowers
SB Talee with Raul Leal from Colombia
New popular color
The team of Royal FloraHolland
UV Rer with Julio Asencio. This French company offers turnkey disinfection solutions for the horticulture industry.
Cropnuts with Amos Mwitio, Rosemary Nyakundi and Ronald Bosch
Lachlan team
Osho Booth
Good conversations at the booth of Thursd.
Mitchell Cotts with Alice Kang’Arua
The team of Broekhof Africa, Agrofresh and Vaselife with Paardekooper
Team of Roseto and Florenza
Part of the Marginpar team, visiting the expo with one of their clients
Windmill made from roses at the Dutch Embassy
Bliss Flora booth
Senthil Kumaran with Ashtor, they are installing a lot of greenhouse projects for the protected horticulture in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Clare Ndakwa in the booth of Zeeflora
Greenspan with Umakant Kurund John Njuguna, Siddesh Jadhav
Wafex team: Craig Musson from Australia, Florence Didy and Claris Wanjohi. It is their first time exhibiting and they see a big impact already.
Kikwetu Flowers with Ruth Anyango and Benson Wambulwa
Talks happening in the Astral booth
Fowe Agriequipments
Jan Willem scheeve and Lejla Begovic with Deliflor. They have a lot of pink and purple flowers in their booth as those are popular colours in Kenya.
Kenyan colors
Philip Kitumu with Fataki packaging
Ugarose Flowers with Stanley Musiime and Kato Hannington
Pearl flowers with Antony Oguttu, Karykubiro Charles and Samwel Masese
A big team representing Uganda
Talks between Dave Hoekstra and Jasper van Dijk
Meindert Roosendaal of Sosani, Jay Shah with Sandpro and Cedric Saborowski of Blooming innovation
the booth of PJ Dave Flora
Nitesh Tiwari of Omni Agriculture
Meetings at Morgan Cargo
A busy booth at Sian with many pictures being taken
Lots of meetings going on at NIRP
Beautiful varieties at NIRP.
O’Neil Nkosana, Robert Gwaro and Saskia Singh of Azalea Blooms. Saskia runs Azalea Blooms together with her mother.
Lima with Jasper Simpkin and Ben Evans. They want to show growers the advantages of becoming data driven.
More talks at De Ruiter
Many photos being taken at the booth of Exceptional Africalla