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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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