The Art of Grafting Chrysanthemums
The following is a post from our guest bloggers, Yoko Arakawa and Linda Anderson, mum growers from Longwood Gardens.
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7 Ways to Train the Next Generation for Success in your Family Greenhouse Business
There is a startling statistic: 65% of family businesses fail in the second generation, and 90% fail with the third generation. And yet family farms and family greenhouses perform much better than most family businesses.
Not Just Greenhouses - Check out our Fabric Covered Buildings
At GGS we build other structures besides greenhouses. Our Tasco Dome fabric covered buildings have become extremely popular for uses such as Horse Riding Arenas, Farm Equipment Storage, and Commercial Buildings
The Pros and Cons of a Greenhouse Lean-to
When we talk about lean-tos in the greenhouse industry, 2 styles come to mind. One is a connection lean-to that usually connects greenhouse gutters of different heights or other buildings. The other is a gutter to ground lean-to which typically attaches to the side of the greenhouse.
Garden Centers: How are you Bringing Customers into your Greenhouse?
Before I joined the family business I cut my entrepreneurial adult teeth by opening a retail gift store. I was fresh out of business school with grand plans of the next big franchise explosion. My landlord was a popular florist in London Ontario, and so I quickly added floral arrangements to the list of offerings in my store.
Up to $18.9 million in funding for manufacturers (St. Catharines Standard)
St. Catharines - Several years ago, GGS Structures Inc. in Vineland Station had just bought two companies. It was expanding at a dizzying speed.
The exporting greenhouse structure and parts manufacturer badly needed to update its inventory system. It took an investment of more than $100,000 to make that happen, half of which came through federal grant money to help smaller Ontario manufacturers boost productivity.
Growers Greenhouse Supplies Inc.: Nourishing Innovation within its Field (Canadian Business Executive)
Summer 2010 - In a general sense, Coulter runs GGS Structures Inc., a greenhouse building designer for the horticultural and agricultural industries, and Niagrow Systems Ltd., which creates heating systems for greenhouses. Meanwhile, Harrison is still senior management and oversees JGS Limited, which specializes in greenhouses for research purposes at universities and laboratories, and he maintains the day-to-day operations of the overall company. However, GGS is not the type of place that gets hung up on status. “We don’t really use titles. We’re a family business and I’ve grown up through the business doing different jobs, so we all just kind of do what we need to do here,” Coulter explains. Niagrow and JGS were added to GGS during 2009.
