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             Q&A interview with Ryan Bacher of NetFlorist





            s      outh Africa’s largest floral                                     growth and so, in 2018, we decided to

                   and gifting service company,
                                                                                    meet a few property agents to help us
                   NetFlorist, recently made

                                                                                    family. The brief was quite complex in
                   a move to the Waterfall                                          find the perfect space for our growing
             Logistics Precinct. With valentine’s                                   that we needed a space large enough

             Day around the corner, we thought                                      for offices, warehousing and stock,

             it the opportune time to catch up                                      but also well located in relation to
             with the co-founder and managing                                       arterial roads and highway routes to
             director, ryan Bacher, to find out                                     suit the logistical part of our business.

             a bit more about the business.
                                                                                    We spent over a year looking at
             Q: How long was NetFlorist                                             many potential buildings, but it was
             operating from its previous premises                                   only in August 2019 that we were
             before moving to Waterfall?                                            presented with this space in Waterfall.
             RB: NetFlorist had been operating      Ryan Bacher                     The moment we saw it, we instantly
             out of Paulshof for about 12 years                                     knew that we had finally found our

             in what initially started out as a   we had to upgrade our office space   new home. While we were initially


             small commercial office, which was   several times within a short period.    wary of moving into a building



             nevertheless a productive working                                      five times bigger than our current
             space. very quickly and to our surprise,   Over time, we came to realise that the   requirement, we’ve quickly seen

             our operation grew and inevitably   lack of space was really stunting our   the benefits of being so centrally
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